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StreamYard Overview

What is StreamYard?

StreamYard is a live streaming, recording and webinar tool in your browser. Interview guests, share your screen, and much more. Stream directly to Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and other platforms. StreamYard makes it easy to broadcast your live show to all audiences on multiple platforms at once. Interview guests, sync comments, and brand every broadcast. Better yet, our backup servers make sure your livestream runs smoothly no matter what—because the show must go on. Record your podcasts with high quality local recordings. Host your virtual events and webinars with StreamYard.

StreamYard Details
Languages Supported
German, English, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese
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Product Description

StreamYard is a live streaming studio in your browser. Interview guests, share your screen, and much more. Stream directly to Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and other platforms.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

There are a number of live streaming tools out there, but when you compare them to StreamYard, several key differences make StreamYard stand out:

Easy live video production, whether you’re streaming or recording content

Multistream across multiple platforms at once

Visually on-brand and professional streams

For anyone: At home, at work, on the go, or in the studio

Grow the visibility of your small business or personal brand

Share authentic stories and build genuine community

Engage with live viewers by bringing their comments on screen

Frictionless collaboration: Easily bring in guests, or have teammates/co-hosts help produce the show

24/7 global support, so that you always have someone to reach out to


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Hopin
Year Founded
2019
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London
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Description

Hopin now supports virtual, hybrid, and in-person events all on one easy to use platform. Built for you to build any event, Hopin makes planning, producing, and reliving event experiences easier than ever.


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DJ Y.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
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I love the ability to make each show feel like its own. The branding, customization, and flow is outstanding.
Marina C.
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Marina C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Seamless and professional live streaming made easy!"
StreamYard keeps live streaming super easy and professional. I love the intuitiveness of the platform, right from no downloads to direct streaming ...
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🎤 Jorge L S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
1.5 out of 5
"The customer experience and customer support have severely deteriorated"
I have been using this product for many years and was a big fan. The product is easy to use.
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StreamYard is a live streaming studio in your browser. Interview guests, share your screen, and much more. Stream directly to Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and other platforms.
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StreamYard lets you stream to multiple destinations all at one time. You can monitor the comments coming in from one place and connect them all seamlessly.
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StreamYard Pros and Cons

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Marina C.
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What do you like best about StreamYard?

StreamYard keeps live streaming super easy and professional. I love the intuitiveness of the platform, right from no downloads to direct streaming via your browser. We use it to host webinars with our clients and potential ones, as a lead gen initiative. Being able to customize branding, adding overlays, and inviting guests with only a link has been incredible. It's super reliable, even during multiple streams to different platforms at the same time. From webinars to interviews, StreamYard sends off live events in truly polished, engaging ways. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StreamYard?

I do find it a bit expensive, especially for smaller teams or businesses just starting out. Given the ease of use, reliability, and professional features that it offers, I think it's worth investing in. It saves so much time and gives great results; hence, it is worth it as far as live streaming is concerned. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StreamYard solving and how is that benefiting you?

StreamYard has made it super easy to run professional live streams, webinars, and virtual events without needing technical expertise or complicated setups. It removes the need for expensive production equipment and complex software to allow us to produce high-quality, branded content directly from our browser.

This really opened up our reach and engagement to stream simultaneously on multiple platforms, meeting our audience wherever they are. Its collaboration with team members is super smooth: inviting guests, controlling the stream in real time-everything's pretty seamless. Overall, this saved time, simplified our workflow, and really raised the quality bar of our live content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

🎤 Jorge L S.
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What do you like best about StreamYard?

I have been using this product for many years and was a big fan. The product is easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StreamYard?

The customer experience and customer support have severely deteriorated. Nearly every support ticket response is incorrect or not related to my inquiry or bug report. They used to have chat-based help now it's just poor email support. They changed pricing without allowing users to opt-in and only communicated it once buried in a long email.

I was so loyal that despite the poor experience I have not churned YET.

The product has not been having severe bugs that are not being addressed -- and again support is not understanding.

I suspect they either have poorly implemented AI or their support team is not reading or don't care.

The entire experience has gone downhill after the RingCentral acquisition. VERY sad. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StreamYard solving and how is that benefiting you?

They were solving the LinkedIn live streaming and podcast recording problems for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about StreamYard?

I like the options I have to share my screen, and HOW to share it. I can make my face be super-imposed over the screen, or vice versa. I can be in a box on the side, or in the corner. I can make the screen show up a few different sizes. I get to pick which window online I want to show, I get to decide if I want to show something I have open in my desktop.

It is very intuirive, it is the easiest to use and least buggy platform I have tried.

Any time I wish to shoot a video of myself, with sound and have better footage captured than a selfie video, I go to streamyard. I made a lot of reaction videos with it, and have made a couple of talking head videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StreamYard?

Honestly, I cannot complain.

Maybe if I wanted to have more people on, it would be problematic if I was not interested in paying to do so.

I have a free account. I could get more features and space if I wanted to, but I have not needed them as yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StreamYard solving and how is that benefiting you?

I actually have not sent a stream out live, I took recordings and downloaded them and edited them or uploaded them to YouTube alternatives.

I could not find anything reliable that I could make my reaction videos with, that I make on occasion, and my other videos I make for fun.

I originally planned to use it as part of a business promotion, but those plans changed. When I get out of school and get back to making videos, I will use streamyard for making prmotional videos and any other content involving voiceover or video footage of me that has to be better than what my phone does.

At that point, I will probably upgrade again. I am looking forward to it.

In the meantime, I am still enjoying the free version as a hobby! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Courtney C.
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What do you like best about StreamYard?

I am an author and editor who uses Streamyard weekly to conduct live panels, news breifs, and interviews with my collegues. The quality of the stream is always clear, and the controls are easy to use, even for some of my technically challeneged guests. I love that Streamyard has so many features ready for me at the click of a button. I can insert a graphic or video that's relevant to our conversation, and I can even change the way the guests are displayed on screen, like zooming into the person who is currently speaking, or allowing all guests to be displayed in a certain order and configuration. Streamyard also integrates nicely to multiple streaming services, not just YouTube. And better yet, not only can you stream to multiple platforms, you can do so all at the same time, so no picking and choosing or hopping from platform to platform, do it all in one go! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StreamYard?

The downside of Streamyard is that it is difficult for some guests to use if they are on an android phone as Streamyard does not currently have an app for those users. In those cases they have to use a chrome browser and some times even using that, people do get dropped in and out of the stream. This is a feature I would like to see developed. There are many times my guests are traveling and don't have acess to other reliable methods to stream. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StreamYard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Streamyard lets me have a large group of authors, editors, and industry professionals together at one time, unlike other apps that limit the conversation o a handful of people. With a business account you can currently have up to ten people on screen with 5 more backstage.

Being able to have a larger group means a more interesting conversation and at times a longer conversation which produces a plethora of expertise in one session. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Brett L.
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Marketing Director (Volunteer)
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What do you like best about StreamYard?

I have used StreamYard for a few years now and it is super easy to use and very intuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StreamYard?

The price for multiple streams - it seems unfair to charge for additional streams as the technology is the same, but I guess that is how they make their money Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StreamYard solving and how is that benefiting you?

When Covid forced us to stay at home I was able to continue doing my show, TechKnowledgy, from home. I have not gone back to a studio and continue to do the show from StreamYard. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GI
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What do you like best about StreamYard?

The ease of use and how practical it is for my organization's needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StreamYard?

They have improved so much that what I disliked has now been addressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StreamYard solving and how is that benefiting you?

They make livestreaming easy and very high quality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Luke John E.
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Production Manager
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What do you like best about StreamYard?

Simplicity. Real ease of use. Anyone can jump on and use it straight away. Affordable packages and great support from their team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StreamYard?

Could do with a StreamDeck integration. Audio mixer and ability to stream portrait video. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StreamYard solving and how is that benefiting you?

High quality recordings. Easy to invite people and bring them onscreen. Custom layouts allow for BSL interpreters to be onscreen throughout making our streams accessible to all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhinav D.
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Creative Strategy Manager
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What do you like best about StreamYard?

Super easy to use. Intuitive UI and even someone who is not well-versed with tech can easily access and operate StreamYard. Very useful for small businesses who need to have frequent video meetings and presentations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StreamYard?

Requires a very good internet connection - sometimes that proves to be challenging. The competitors lilke Restream do not require high bandwidth and can operate on a basic internet connection as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StreamYard solving and how is that benefiting you?

For a lot of our clients, I need to organise live streams where there are more than 3 speakers. StreamYard lets me set this up without any hassle and I can also save my video templates so I can reuse it.Recording the livestream and then sharing it on other platforms has been made simpler with StreamYard. The layout options are easy to understand and always work well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Irwan S.
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What do you like best about StreamYard?

Streamyard is easy to use, attractive and practical Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StreamYard?

You need to pay if you want to use the application in full use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StreamYard solving and how is that benefiting you?

we use streamyard to host interactive webinars Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nakia D.
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What do you like best about StreamYard?

How good it is in adding multiple people and doesn't mess up as much as other apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about StreamYard?

Nothing it's pretty good and easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is StreamYard solving and how is that benefiting you?

To be able to have a platform to use that works well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.