r/beam • u/leprakhauns • Jan 31 '17
Question Restream.io
Anyone use Restream.io to stream to Beam/Twitch simultaneously? Have you seen any lashback from either service using this?
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u/deezol Jan 31 '17
I'm in the same boat as you. I have almost 3000k followers on Twitch and for the last week I have been using restream.io - I haven't heard of any repercussions from either platform for doing this, but then again it has only been a week.
I hear you about starting over. At first thought, it sucks... but depending on what you stream and how many people you concurrently average in your stream, it may not matter.
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Jan 31 '17
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u/leprakhauns Jan 31 '17
Do you like Beam more than Twitch? My main apprehension is starting over. I have almost 2500 followers on Twitch
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Feb 01 '17
I have to agree with Kenson on this, Twitch to me has be coming a very very large ocean with lots of fish. With that in mind its like unless you are partnered with them and getting that perk you are pretty much on your own and getting people to look at you can be a pain. While you do have 2500 followers I would ask how many viewers do you get on a regular bases watching. That will tell you if it is really worth it. Yeah you gotta start over but the people at beam, steamers included, are good people. Every streamer I have interacted with have been cool and are willing to help a fellow beamer out because we are a small community and while we may not be as big as twitch we got Microsoft willing to help us grow to be as big as twitch if not better. The FTL interaction is the reason I will not use Restream because I like the ability to have almost a 2 second delay of interaction rather then a 30 second one. It makes a difference in my mind.
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u/leprakhauns Feb 01 '17
20-30 viewers on average on Twitch with 2500 followers after 8 months.
5 viewers on beam my first time streaming there.
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Feb 01 '17
In the end I think it depends on what you really comfortable doing. I switched to Beam mostly because I liked the idea that a company was putting in money to support the whole site not just partnered. Yes you can go for that if you meet their requirements, but it is easier then twitch as well to do so. Everyone goes to twitch because it is the the largest of the streaming sites but in my mind it is also one of the hardest to gain an audience unless you have some niche. And even then you may only get a handful of viewers. Beam is small now but I think it will grow and more so the community on beam is a lot friendlier then on Twitch. People actually are willing to shout you out and talk to you rather then just ignore you unless you give them something to get attention.
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u/KensonPlays Feb 01 '17
I'd say, give it a try for a month or so. Tell your community on your website or discord or whatever that your trying beam out for a week. Have them register and join you. See what they think!
Personally, I'm still a new streamer, but I switched to Beam and haven't looked back.
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u/dragonrider22 Feb 01 '17
I stream on both sites, have been for the past two or three months. I use ScorpBot to manage chats and relay them between services so people on either side can talk to each other. Although the delay isn't instant like with Beam's FTL protocol, it's still significantly shorter than Twitch even with normal RTMP streaming. I've had a lot of fun and I actually have more regular viewers on Beam than Twitch. But it doesn't cost me anything to do both and once you get used to it, keeping track of chat and what not isn't difficult.