Upload once and go live on YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Kick or any RTMP server simultaneously. Because the fan-out happens on our servers, sending to three platforms costs you exactly the same upload bandwidth as sending to one — none at all after the file is in.
The obvious way to reach three platforms is to open three RTMP connections from your own machine. The arithmetic is what kills it.
A single 1080p60 stream at 6,000 kbps needs roughly 6 Mbps of sustained upload. Three of them need 18 Mbps, continuously, for the entire broadcast — more than most home connections can hold steady, and any dip hits all three streams at once. Add the CPU cost of encoding three outputs and a mid-range machine is finished.
Cloud multistreaming inverts it. You upload the file once, at whatever speed you have, with no deadline. Our servers then open the three RTMP connections from a datacentre with bandwidth that does not care. Your connection is out of the picture the moment the upload completes.
| Multistreaming locally | Streamza in the cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Upload needed for 3 × 1080p60 | ~18 Mbps sustained | One file upload, then nothing |
| Encoding load | Three outputs on your CPU/GPU | None on your device |
| Effect of a home outage | All three streams die | No effect |
| Machine must stay on | Yes | No |
| Setup | Three outputs, or a restreaming plugin | Paste up to three keys |
Create the broadcast on every destination you want to hit and collect each one's RTMP URL and stream key. The stream key guide covers all of them.
At streamza.live/studio, upload the video a single time. It is stored once and read once, no matter how many destinations you add.
Paste each URL and key as a separate destination — YouTube, Twitch and a custom endpoint, or any other combination. Built-in platforms fill their URL in automatically.
One press starts all three RTMP connections together, so the broadcasts begin in sync. Then confirm the go-live on whichever platforms require it.
Multistreaming is a paid feature. A free slot claim streams to one destination. Sending to two or three simultaneously requires the Multistream plan, which raises the limit to three concurrent destinations from a single upload.
Reaching everywhere at once is not automatically the right move. Three things worth thinking about:
Put the same polished launch video live on every channel at the same moment instead of publishing three times.
Congregations and communities are split across platforms. Reach all of them from one upload at the scheduled hour.
Mirror your main channel to Kick, Trovo or Rumble to see whether an audience is there before committing.
Run a looping channel on more than one platform from a single upload.
Send to a second endpoint as insurance so one platform having a bad day does not take the broadcast down.
Push the same recording to separate channels aimed at different audiences, simultaneously.
Up to three simultaneous destinations on the Multistream plan. They can be any mix of the built-in platforms and custom RTMP endpoints.
No. You upload the file once and the three outbound RTMP connections originate from our servers. This is the main practical advantage over multistreaming from your own machine, where three destinations really does mean three times the upload.
No. A free slot claim streams to a single destination. Multistreaming is part of the paid Multistream plan.
Yes. YouTube plus Twitch plus your own server is a perfectly normal combination — every destination is just a URL and a key.
The other connections are independent, so a rejected key or an unreachable server on one destination does not stop the rest.
Yes — the same file is relayed to each one. Export to satisfy the strictest platform in your set, since there is no per-destination transcoding.
Not generally, but exclusivity contracts exist. Twitch Partners especially should check their agreement before streaming the same content elsewhere simultaneously.
Go live everywhere at once without touching your upload bandwidth.
