How to Use OBS Studio for Multi-Platform Streaming?

Multi-streaming is simply broadcasting your video on multiple platforms at once. You can stream same content on different streaming services or social media streaming applications. Multi-platform streaming is expanding media industry by facilitating information sharing on broad scale.

Advantages of Multi-Platform Streaming

Social media applications and other streaming services all use specific methods to keep viewers engage. Using multiple platforms at a time potentially attract new viewers keeping them engage. In this way you can literally multiply audience number, doing nothing special. Moreover if a specific platform doesn’t allow your content you can stream it on other.

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OBS Studio

If you are professionally connected with streaming work you surely know the name – OBS Studio. It is professional program designed especially with the purpose of supporting broadcast companies, content creators etc. But fact is that OBS itself doesn’t allow multi-platform streaming. And so it doesn’t means multi-streaming is not possible with OBS.

Fortunately, using Restream multistreaming plugin with OBS you can stream content at multiple platforms simultaneously, for example, Twitch, YouTube, Kick, Facebook and others.

How to Use OBS with Restream?

There is no rocket science in using Restream with OBS, follow the steps given below and start multi-streaming now.

Step 1: Open Restream.io official page and create your account or log in if you already have an account.

Step 2: Now click on “channel” and select the platforms you want to stream on.

Bonus Tip: You can get help from “the Platform Setup Guide” given in the same section.

Step 3: Now, go to OBS main interface and open ‘setting’.

Step 4: Open the ‘stream’ tab and from “service” select Restream.io.

Step 5: Then from given options select ‘connect automatically’ and you OBS account is given access to Restream.io.

Step 6: Now you are ready to stream live.

Conclusion:

Switching to OBS Studio with Restream.io plugin enables you to stream your content at multiple platforms seamlessly. Follow the steps mentioned above and setup OBS Studio along with Restream extension to simplify your multi-streaming projects.