- The StreamYard Live Town Hall is taking place, hosted by Gage and Dan, the founders of StreamYard.
- They do these town halls every Sunday to stay connected with their audience and answer questions.
- The three pillars of StreamYard are ease of use, stability, and professional streams.
- They mention upcoming shows on StreamYard, including YouTube channel reviews and enhancing livestreams.
- They share a fun fact about their favorite fruits.
- They answer questions about viewing YouTube polls, signing up for future webinars, adjusting font size on nameplates, looping music in playlists, and adding multiple destinations to scheduled streams.

- StreamYard has launched a guest iOS app for better stability and quality
- The app improves audio and video quality, compatibility with microphones, and offers better control over features
- The app currently supports USB mics and will soon support screen sharing, virtual backgrounds, and touch-up filters
- The app is only available for guests on iOS, but a producer experience and Android app may be developed in the future
- The app provides a smoother and more convenient experience for mobile users, but streaming on desktop is still recommended for a better overall experience
- There are plans to add new functionalities, such as custom layouts and sample moving backgrounds
- Creating a Facebook Live event is recommended through StreamYard for a seamless experience.

- StreamYard offers the option to schedule streams on Facebook
- StreamYard OnAir allows users to stream on their own website or create a webinar experience
- Users can also multi-stream to YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn simultaneously
- StreamYard OnAir provides an embed code for live streaming on personal websites
- The support team member, Lauren, is introduced and shares information about her role at StreamYard
- Lauren discusses her favorite StreamYard features and her background in customer support
- The support team influences product development and provides feedback
- Lauren shares her favorite fruit, karaoke song, and board game
- A giveaway of a StreamYard pillow and duck is announced
- Questions about future updates and features are addressed

- StreamYard is giving away a pillow and a duck
- Robert and Joan need to email StreamYard to receive their prizes
- This was episode 249 of the StreamYard Live Town Hall
- They will be back next week to answer more questions
- The next episode is on Sunday at 6 p.m. Pacific
- Lauren joined them for this episode
- Thanks everyone, see you next time

- StreamYard Live Town Hall hosted by Gage and Dan, the founders of StreamYard
- Three pillars of StreamYard: ease of use, stability, and professional streams
- Mention of upcoming shows on StreamYard
- Introduction of a guest iOS app for better stability and quality
- Plans to add new functionalities like custom layouts and sample moving backgrounds
- StreamYard OnAir allows streaming on personal websites and multi-streaming to YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn
- Introduction of Lauren, a support team member, and her favorite StreamYard features
- Announcement of a giveaway of a StreamYard pillow and duck
- Addressing of questions about future updates and features
- Conclusion of the episode and announcement of the next episode time and date

Come hang out with our founders Geige & Dan — they'll answer your questions about StreamYard: a browser-based tool that lets you live stream, record videos & podcasts, and host webinars.

Welcome to episode 249 of the StreamYard Live Town Hall.

My name is Gage and I'm here with Dan, of course.

We have an exciting feature to announce for tonight.

And we also have a special guest from the support team.

For anyone new here, Dan and I are the founders of StreamYard.

And we do these town halls every single Sunday at 6 PM Pacific.

1 is to stay in tune with all of you, go through the same flow that you all do with your own shows and productions.

So if there's anything you'd like us to touch on tonight, feel free to leave it in the chat.

We'll do our best to get to as many as we possibly can.

And I always mention the 3 pillars of StreamYard, which are ease of use, stability, and professional streams.

So if you're both those 3 things, StreamYard is the tool for you.

See folks hanging out from all over the world tonight.

Before I forget, we have some awesome shows on StreamYard to mention.

We have YouTube channel reviews with D and Daniel, the second Saturday of every month.

Really fun show if you're looking to grow on YouTube.

D and Daniel are both pros when it comes to all things YouTube.

And it's a really fun show where they give specific advice on individual channels and should hopefully spark some thoughts on how to think about things like your audience, your niche, thumbnails, all kinds of helpful tips and tactics.

And then we have Enhance Your Livestreams, the last Tuesday of the month, with Nick Nimmin, who again is a pro when it comes to all things video.

But definitely check that 1 out for your specific live streaming questions.

And 1 thing we've been doing at the start of these so that we get to know a little bit more about you and you get to know a little bit more about us is a fun fact.

And the fun fact we had for tonight was if you have a favorite fruit, you have a favorite fruit, Dan?

Yeah, we're getting some really random ones.

I'm definitely a huge fruit fan in general, so it's hard for me to choose.

I don't think there's a single fruit that I don't enjoy.

Lately I've been enjoying like watermelon a lot.

So it had been a long time since I eaten watermelon.

It's 1 of those reasons you sort of forget it exists.

So for now I'll pick watermelon, but maybe it'll change in the future.

I already see quite a few questions here.

So let's do a couple of questions before we get into the announcement for tonight, which I'm really excited about.

Callmecrafty says, is there a plan to be able to view YouTube polls and results on the StreamYard site?

During my stream last night, I forgot to close and share the results.

So it's definitely something we're open to we've gone back and forth On it in general because the different streaming platforms have often like added polls taken away polls and really changed how they've worked there it hasn't been something that's been sort of established for a long period of time, but the longer that something like polls is out, the more open we are to figuring out a way to support it in general.

Outside of YouTube specifically, polls is definitely something we're going to support in on air.

I know that's not the question specifically, but we do plan on supporting it for the on air functionality, but hopefully for YouTube specifically at some point as well.

For anyone who's never heard of it, on-air is our webinar tool.

I don't think YouTube actually supports it through their API right now either.

We actually have a couple of questions about OnAir here.

Marquette, hopefully I'm pronouncing your name right.

On Streamr and OnAir webinar, when people sign up with their email once, do they have to sign up again for a future webinar or not?

So right now, the way it works is every webinar is unique.

Where every new webinar, if you choose to have registration on, you don't have to have registration on.

But if you do opt to have registration on for the webinar, they will have to put in their email to be notified about that upcoming webinar.

The idea of something where you can subscribe to all upcoming webinars is interesting, something to think about.

I assume that you asked the question, that is how something you'd like to see, but if there's anything specific there, Mark White, I'd love to know how you'd like to see that work.

Yeah, and I would say, I mean, this is way more involved and a lot more work, but this is something that a few people have done for your on-air webinars.

If you do have your own site with your own login and stuff like that, you can do it where somebody signs up for your site and then you're just embedding the StreamYard on their webinars, and then you can gate whoever gets access and do really whatever you want.

You have paywalls and all sorts of stuff on your end, but then you're not using StreamYard's registration, you have way more involved, a lot, lot more work.

Enjoying all the root answers or big words.

Uro Nurse says, any way to adjust the font size on the name buggy?

I assume you just mean on like the nameplates that pop up, Uro Nurse.

So the overall size will adjust based on the layout and number of people you have on a screen.

In terms of giving more flexibility of that, giving you more flexibility over that in the future, it's definitely a possibility.

For now, we just try to make sure it's the most legible size based on the given layout.

Yeah, the closest thing is we do have those different themes and they do have fairly different font sizes and even different fonts in general.

I'd actually be curious in your case, are you specifically hoping to make it smaller or larger?

That would be useful to know, because maybe we would just make a small change in general.

And also curious which theme you're using.

Like the classic theme, for example, has the largest font, whereas the minimal theme, I think is probably the smallest.

And Tim Evans, I see your question there from LinkedIn.

We'll address that as part of the announcement.

Chris from budgeting, Just Because says, love the dial up on the touch up appearance.

Awesome, Chris, glad that's working well for you.

We just started rolling that out, actually.

I also see quite a few folks commenting on video backgrounds as well.

Chantel says, is there a plan to loop music in the playlist within a group or folder rather than looping the same track over and over?

So yeah, This is something that's come up a few times, and maybe even Chantel, you may have asked about it before.

It's not something we have plans for right now, but it does come up enough that we're open to modifying it, I would say, like basically having some kind of concept of a playlist.

There's no plan at the moment to be able to allow that other than we've considered it and we've thought about it a little bit so far.

I mean, and then you probably know this already, Chantel, but like the biggest workaround, if you had like, let's say 4 tracks, you just wanted to loop through, is to just use some kind of tool to just merge those tracks into 1 and upload that track on StreamYard and just play that.

So there is workarounds where you can upload your own basically playlist in 1 track.

So that's what I would recommend for now.

I want to make sure we have enough time to chat about, because I'm sure there'll be a lot of questions about the feature announcement.

So let me do a couple more, and then we'll get back to questions after the announcement.

Alvin says, Question, after creating and posting a scheduled stream at 1 destination, can I add a second destination?

That's 1 thing we try to make pretty simple on StreamYard is you can always add or remove destinations even if it's already scheduled.

Marianne says, question, are you able to rearrange the camera file slash videos at the bottom of the screen?

Helps clicking the right ones in the right order.

So right now you can't rearrange it at this point right then, but it's something we do want to.

As long as we did it in a way that wasn't confusing and was like very easy and intuitive to use, I would like to add something like that.

I don't know when that would come, but yeah, our designers have explored that before.

I see tons of great questions here, so we'll get to some of these after, but yeah, I want to make sure we have time for the announcement for tonight, which is the StreamYard guest iOS app is now fully live and available.

The main reason we've been working, it's been a long time coming, we've been working on it in the background for a long period of time.

The main reason we wanted to launch it was mostly around the pillar of stability.

1 thing that historically has been difficult with iOS is specifically Safari Mobile is a browser that's been difficult to support when it comes to the type of technology that we use to facilitate the video capture and streaming.

So by having a native mobile app, it unlocks all kinds of cool possibilities.

But the most important 1 being just being able to offer you and Specifically your guests the best possible experience when it comes to actually joining a stream yard studio So this means you know much better audio quality much better video quality less Stutters better compatibility when it comes to things like microphones and whatnot just because we all have much more control over those things because we're not sort of limited by some of those aspects of the Safari mobile browser.

This first version is just for the guest experience.

We are working on a producer experience as well, so stay tuned on that.

The other reason we wanted to launch this, too, was now that we have recording as a big functionality and the ability to do local recording.

That's another area where stability and quality is super important.

And the native app for iOS is going to unlock a lot of abilities for us to do that better by having the mobile experience.

Some other cool things that Unlocks is stuff like, again, it's not available yet, but it will be coming soon, that previously were more difficult for us to do, is stuff like allowing screen sharing on stuff like an iPad or phone directly from Streamr without having to use additional tools, Being able to do cool stuff with AI, like the touch-up filter and stuff that's supported on desktop now, but not mobile.

Better support when it comes to microphones.

So 1 thing that's always been asked in the past is like, hey, can I use something like an iRig or an external USB mic, which hasn't been supported?

But now it is possible for us to support those things.

This is the very first version, so not everything is going to be supported out of the gate, but now it is possible if we're going to add those things in the future.

So, yeah, we're really, really excited about it.

In terms of, I guess just to give a summary, it's really like, this should be the best experience for guests on iOS.

So if you have a guest on their phone or tablet on iOS, I would recommend that they use this.

Now it's brand new, just starting to roll it out.

We haven't actually, we don't push anyone into the app right now.

So if you're on iOS as a guest and you try to enter a studio we don't send people over the app or anything like that.

You can still enter on the browser and you'll always be able to enter on the browser, but fairly soon we'll start recommending people download the app just because it is going to be a better experience.

So yeah, really the benefits are it'll work better, just like highest quality possible.

We don't have any, some like the weird Safari browser corpse and then also more features over time.

So right now we already have USB mic support.

It does require wearing Bluetooth headphones in order to get the USB mic to work, but that will also be changed pretty soon where it'll just fully support it without even having to wear Bluetooth headphones.

So USB mics, like Gage said, screen sharing will come fairly soon.

Things like virtual backgrounds and touch up will come as well.

The first 1 that I expected would come up a lot is around Android.

This also includes an Android application.

So yeah, Nancy asking there, and then also call me, Crafty.

So this first version that we're working on is just specifically for native iOS and specifically the guest experience.

We are working on the producer experience as well, but specifically for iOS.

Android is definitely something we're open to.

Historically, the Android browser has been much easier to work with when it comes to supporting those technologies and getting a stable experience on mobile.

But it does still, like iOS, unlock some cool stuff by having an application.

So it's definitely something we're open to.

People says, I literally love using Streamr because you listen to your community and make updates.

We love that you give us, folks like you give us feedback.

Crowley says, this will be awesome for those of us who live stream in the great outdoors.

There is also just some small, I think, UI improvements as well.

And we'll probably, I don't want to mention this too much because we're probably going to bring the similar updates to the web mobile version as well.

But for example, 1 of the pain points that guests have on mobile right now on their devices, is you can't see the chat and the video feed at the same time, because the chat is kind of in a separate modal, whereas now there's gonna be, I shall just put a picture, there's separate tabs.

So here's a rough picture of the iOS app where you can see, there's like the video section at the top and there's actually a comments tab that you can open up.

So you can see the comments and the video at the same time, which is definitely something that guests have requested before.

It's also just a smoother experience for anyone who's kind of compared a web version of a product and a native app.

It's just, it's smoother when you're moving around.

Chris says, so are you guys saying it'll be better to stream over mobile instead of desktop?

But if you are a guest on mobile, or you are streaming on mobile, the best, specifically on iOS, the best experience is going to be in the native iOS app.

Desktop, fortunately, we're not limited to Safari.

So the limitations when it comes to mobile aren't really an issue.

So we still recommend if you have a desktop, you're going to have much more landscape to work with.

You can use things like multiple monitors.

We would always recommend that if it's possible for you.

But if you are using mobile, we'd recommend the mobile app.

I only have an iOS or iPhone or whatever.

I don't have a computer I can join on, then I'd recommend to use the app.

And we'll kind of push them towards the app soon as well.

Sorry for asking a request that's not included in this upgrade.

When it comes to banner and ticker direction, is there any updates soon to include the opposite direction from left to right?

So yeah, there's definitely some languages where it makes more sense for the direction to be the opposite direction.

I don't have a specific date or anything for it, but I believe it's something that we do want to support, right, Dan?

Yeah, it's something we're aware of and we do want to support.

And mostly for tickers, I don't know, I think we would probably start with the tickers because I think those are an even bigger pain point than the banners.

I see a couple of questions about things like transitions and the ability to have a sound effect happen with a particular overlay or something like that.

When it comes to that type of functionality, 1 thing that I've mentioned a few times in the past is there is, under the same sort of theme of what custom layouts were in terms of giving folks, like folks that just want to be able to use the preset layouts that are easy can do that, but we added this functionality to essentially make your own.

We are working on some really exciting stuff that is similar when it comes to the overall flow of a show.

So when it comes to really controlling every aspect of what's happening frame by frame and really controlling those types of things, we're coming up with a new set of functionalities around that.

Don't have a specific date, but really excited to show it when it's ready.

And I think when it comes to a lot of those types of questions around more complicated things like syncing up transitions and whatnot, I think you'll be super happy with that iteration.

All right, I do want to make sure we have time for our guest for tonight.

So let's do a couple more questions here and then we'll bring on Lauren.

About that, well, it says, will there be some sample moving backgrounds?

We've added some and we're gonna add more sample ones right then.

We may add more, but there is actually already a lot.

So, and I saw you had another question about just where are they in general.

So if you go into the brand tab on StreamYard and just go down to the bottom in the background section, there's a button to add a background.

If you click that, no matter what plan you're on, there'll be this pop-up.

If you're on a paid plan, you can upload your own.

But on all plans, there's a whole bunch of examples now.

I mean, there's like 12 examples or something.

And it's like the 1 we're using right now is actually just 1 of the examples.

So there's a bunch like this that are pretty cool.

Myana says, I would like to create an FB live event.

Is it better to create the event in Facebook or will StreamYard automatically create the event I schedule?

Absolutely, Maiana, I would recommend for the simplest experience to just do it directly from the StreamYard.

If you stream to Facebook, you'll have the option to choose the time, upload a thumbnail image and it will automatically be created on Facebook and be synced with StreamYard so you'll get the comments and everything.

So I would definitely recommend that option.

So basically when you're creating a stream and you choose Facebook, there's a schedule for later checkbox.

Just hit that, It'll schedule it for you and handle everything.

OK, 1 last 1 here, and then we'll bring up Lauren.

Isabel says, is there a way to stream to your own website?

1 thing that we launched recently that we're really excited about and happy with is StreamYard OnAir.

That's what a couple of the questions were about earlier.

So StreamYard OnAir is basically that same cool experience you get when it comes to streaming to things like Facebook and YouTube.

You can essentially do that on your very own website.

Or if you don't have a website, do it on StreamYard itself and sort of create a webinar experience.

And if you're already familiar with using StreamYard, it's gonna be super simple for you to do.

All you do is when you're creating a broadcast, select on air as the option, or you can even multi-stream too.

So you don't necessarily have to only go to on air.

You could also go to YouTube and Facebook, LinkedIn at the same time.

And there's just a little embed code there and you can embed that directly into your own website along with the chat too, which is really cool.

So folks can actually be chatting from your website onto that StreamYard on air live stream.

And then just in terms of other options, some people do just embed a YouTube stream, But part of the reason we built OnAir is because a lot of people don't want to embed YouTube because then you get all the YouTube ads and the recommended videos and stuff popping up.

So I see there's tons of other questions here, so we'll get back to questions at the end, but excited to bring on our guests for tonight.

Hey Lauren, thanks so much for joining us tonight.

Cool, So for anyone who's never seen this segment of 1 of the Town Hall shows, we like to bring up members from the StreamYard team.

Basically so you get a chance to meet everyone at StreamYard, so it's not just Gage and I all the time.

So I'll ask her those questions and it just gives you a chance to actually get to know Lauren but if you have any questions for her as well, definitely feel free to just ask in the comments.

Can you tell us a bit about yourself and what you do at StreamYard?

At StreamYard, I pretty much lead the support team, so I took over Dana's role for a while now.

I've been in the support world for 10 years and outside of work, I enjoy music, watching football and eating, traveling the works.

And just for anyone, because a lot of people in the chat know Dana.

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