- The StreamYard Live Town Hall episode 252 features the founders, Gage and Dan, discussing various topics and answering questions.
- They mention that StreamYard focuses on ease of use, stability, and professional streams.
- They welcome viewers from around the world and mention some upcoming shows on StreamYard.
- They share their personal experiences of wearing bad Halloween costumes.
- They answer questions about setting up the studio for every show, storage limits for recordings, screen sharing, and a live scoreboard feature.
- They explain how StreamYard interacts with YouTube, including importing YouTube chat and posting comments from StreamYard. 
- They discuss the possibility of a live playlist feature for pre-recorded videos.

- The video discusses various features and updates of the StreamYard platform.
- The pre-recorded feature allows users to upload videos to be streamed live.
- The markers feature has been rolled out, allowing users to mark specific parts of a live stream or recording.
- The markers appear in the StreamYard Editor for easy reference.
- The ability to export markers to programs like Premiere is being considered.
- The guest iOS app has been released, providing a better experience for mobile users.
- An Android version of the app may be developed in the future.
- Users can report issues with the app through the feedback button.
- The local recording feature is no longer in beta and is considered production ready.
- There are plans to increase the number of brands and the size/length of video overlays in the future.

- The video features Brayden, a team member from StreamYard, who is interviewed to give viewers a chance to get to know him.
- Brayden is the growth marketer at StreamYard and is responsible for advertising initiatives and supporting the marketing team.
- He has been with StreamYard for over 8 months and enjoys the culture and collaborative nature of the team.
- Brayden's favorite StreamYard feature is the repurposing feature, which is useful for posting content on platforms like TikTok and reels.
- He wanted to be an astronaut when he was younger but ended up getting into growth marketing due to a fear of heights.
- Brayden's favorite karaoke song is "Living on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi and his favorite board game is Monopoly.
- He once wore a whoopee cushion costume for Halloween and his favorite thing about working at StreamYard is the culture and team.
- Viewers also asked questions about StreamYard features and capabilities.

- The speaker acknowledges the challenges they face but they rely on each other
- They appreciate the nice comments and enjoy making a product for the audience
- This was episode 252 of the StreamYard Live Town Hall
- They thank everyone for joining and look forward to the next episode

- StreamYard Live Town Hall episode 252 features the founders discussing various topics and answering questions.
- StreamYard focuses on ease of use, stability, and professional streams.
- Upcoming shows on StreamYard are mentioned.
- Personal experiences of wearing bad Halloween costumes are shared.
- Questions about setting up the studio, storage limits, screen sharing, and a live scoreboard are answered.
- StreamYard's interaction with YouTube is explained, including importing YouTube chat and posting comments.
- The possibility of a live playlist feature for pre-recorded videos is discussed.
- Various features and updates of the StreamYard platform are mentioned.
- The guest iOS app has been released, with a potential Android version in the future.
- The local recording feature is no longer in beta.
- Plans to increase brands and video overlay size/length are mentioned.
- Brayden, a team member, is interviewed to give viewers a chance to know him.
- Brayden is the growth marketer at StreamYard and enjoys the culture and collaborative nature of the team.
- Brayden's favorite StreamYard feature is repurposing content for platforms like TikTok and reels.
- Viewers ask questions about StreamYard features and capabilities.
- The challenges faced are acknowledged, but the team relies on each other.
- The founders appreciate the audience's support and look forward to the next episode.

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

Welcome to episode 252 of the StreamYard Live Town Hall.

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

We've got some exciting topics to cover tonight along with a special guest, so that should be fun.

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

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.

That's why we're calling it Ask StreamYard.

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 also mentioned each stream, the 3 pillars of StreamYard, which are ease of use, stability, and professional streams.

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

See folks hanging out from all over the world tonight.

We had Mexico tonight as well as Tennessee with the creative lady.

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

We have YouTube channel views with Dee and Daniel the second Saturday of every month.

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

Both of them are pros when it comes to all things video.

But it's really fun where they sort of narrow in on individual channels and give ideas on how to think about a particular niche or your analytics.

We also have Enhance Your Livestreams the last Tuesday of the month with Nick Nimmin, who also is a pro when it comes to all things video, but tune into that 1 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 in the spirit of it Halloween recently happening is what's the worst costume you've ever worn for Halloween?

I don't know that I would describe mine as, Worst is just maybe a little harsh.

was necessarily a bad costume But it felt a little odd is when I was really young 3 years old or something I just dressed up as a panda which is fine except right before Halloween I had fallen over and I got this huge scar across my face So I had this massive open scar and I was dressed as a panda and everyone thought I was like a zombie panda or an unbed panda.

That was probably, I would say, the worst in that sense.

Yeah, I mean, I definitely probably have quite a few to choose from.

I think in terms of just like most annoying costumes, maybe how I would think about is 1 year I was a mummy and I didn't do a very good job like tying up the full money on the costumes.

I feel like I spent more time putting it back on than Enjoying Halloween.

Yeah, that's anything where you had to wear a mask or is kind of that material right over your mouth was never a good time And in Canada that would freeze to start to get really cold not fun.

We already have quite a few questions here.

So let's do some questions before we talk about some of the recent StreamYard changes.

How to set up the studio that will be already set up for every show.

I'm new here, so maybe that's already been answered.

So hopefully I'm understanding it correctly, Jen.

But 1 of the nice things about StreamYard is everything you set up for 1 show, it'll all be available for your next show, right?

We have the concept of brands, so you can sort of prepare multiple brands if you have different shows, and all of that gets saved.

Like even if you go to a new, say you're on a different device, or you're traveling or something like that, that's 1 of the cool things about StreamRider that it's, Since it's in the cloud, everything is sort of safe regardless of the device you're on.

So you can prepare all of that stuff beforehand, it will be there for you next show as well.

But if I misunderstood any of that, definitely let me know.

Home Rapid Repair says, question, as my library is growing with recordings, what is the storage limit?

I actually don't recall the limit off the top of my head, but Dan, you probably know.

And by hours, I mean like 50 hours of recording content.

So you went live for an hour, 50 times, that's 50 hours.

There's no limits to how much you can actually record, but that's how much we kind of save.

So once you have 50 hours stored, you can delete past ones, or there's a setting you could turn on that will automatically delete the oldest 1 when you go live again.

And then there is the option just to purchase more storage if you wanna make sure that it's all saved and you can get up to 400 hours of storage.

All right, let's see what else we had here.

Paramystic says, when can we share slides or screen share?

When can we add a Zoom feature to enlarge a document, photo, et cetera?

I don't have a specific date for you, Paramystic, but certainly something that we're open to.

As a workaround, if you are sharing your screen, oftentimes the program you're sharing is gonna have an option to zoom in, like a browser, for example.

Generally, you can hold control and use the mouse wheel to zoom in.

But we do wanna do more there, especially when it comes to sharing slides to make that easier.

Yeah, with almost everything too, like if you have a touch pad or something on a laptop, you can zoom in with that on pretty much every application, so that does work pretty well.

We've got another 1 from, more of a comment than a question, but Ralph has been enjoying the tech support.

Awesome, Ralph, glad that's worked out well for you.

The Money Sports Network says, I do sports live streams.

Any chance of a simple scoreboard we can edit in real time instead of having to go to the banners to change it every time?

Moe has definitely come up quite a few times.

We have been talking about a way to, for folks that are looking to do pretty customizable things, the ability to make something like a scoreboard of your own and being able to import that into StreamYard.

So not necessarily like having a scoreboard feature in StreamYard, but basically having some functionality that will allow folks to basically do that on their own.

I don't have a date or anything for you, but I do think once we have it, I think you'll be pretty excited about what we have in store there.

Yep, and I would say, I mean, banners is obviously a pretty simple solution, though, so even with that, that will be just a little more advanced, whereas the banners are quite simple, which is nice, but they don't necessarily allow you to customize it all that much.

Sav says, question, how does StreamYard interact with YouTube?

Yeah, so there's a few different ways of interacting with YouTube set up.

But I mean, you mentioned the chat, which is definitely the main 1.

So if you're streaming with StreamRoute to YouTube, the YouTube chat will automatically come into the studio.

And like I'm doing now, I have the option to pop it up on screen and answer your question.

There's other little things imported like, well, maybe not little, like super chats are important, so you can show super chats on screen.

You also see like the number of likes on YouTube and stuff, but the, yeah, the main method of interaction is basically seeing the comments and being able to address them.

So if we wanted to, you know, 1 of the comments for some reason, we don't want to address it live and talk about it, we can just post in the chat on StreamYard.

I find the most common way is if I want to share a link or something with everyone in the audience, we can just post it in the chat.

So that's pretty handy, but for the most part, a lot of people just show the comment on screen and talk about it, depending on the type of show, of course.

Cool, let's do a couple more here, and then I want to get to some of the new stuff that recently launched.

Then we can get back to some of the questions.

David says, hey, David, nice to have you here.

Any thoughts on having a live playlist feature, at least a pre-recorded video that broadcasts live like a TV station?

We haven't talked too much about a live playlist feature.

The closest thing, which I'm guessing you're already familiar with, would be the pre-recorded feature of StreamYard, where basically beforehand you could upload a video that maybe you've combined a bunch of videos beforehand to go out live on your behalf.

The other option would be with the present option, we do have the ability to sort of queue up various videos and whatnot, but yeah, it's a cool thing to think about.

I'd be curious if there's any other specific ideas beyond sort of like how would like more details in terms of like how you'd like that to work.

Yeah, I'm especially curious, David, if this is something you'd want on YouTube, like a continuous feed on YouTube, or is it more of something you'd want to embed on your own website or somewhere else?

I see your question having some issues with screen share.

For something that specific, it'll be hard for me to help here.

So if you go to streamr.com slash contact, There's a 24-7 live chat there.

And if you can sort of just walk through that with them, I'm sure they can solve that for you.

Anita has a convenient 1 that leads into 1 of the announcements for tonight about marking on live stream or the recording feature.

Well, yeah, glad you asked, Anita, because that was 1 of the first topics tonight.

Last week, we announced the new markers feature, which is now fully rolled out to everybody.

And yeah, the basic way that that works is whether you're doing a live stream or a recording, at any time throughout the stream there's a nice hot key.

And if you hit that NA point, basically it's there to remind you if something particularly interesting happened during the stream, or for some reason you just want to mark that part.

So say, if you have someone helping you in the background or whatnot, they can also use that if you need to stay focused on the stream itself and have someone else helping you do that.

And then after the stream's over, in the StreamRoute Editor, you'll actually see all of those markers in the timeline as a way to easily figure out, like, oh, hey, that was a particular part that I wanted to repurpose into a short or a reel or something like that, or for whatever reason, you just wanted to go back to that.

1 thing that came up a bunch last time was, does it export into programs like Premiere and whatnot?

And the answer is not at this time, but we've definitely seen the volume of folks that are interested in that, so we're certainly open to adding it.

Should I go ahead and show the picture of it, Dan?

Right, yeah, so this gives you a visual overview of what it looks like.

Yeah, I mean, it's pretty straightforward, I think.

For anyone who's never seen the StreamYard editor, this is the editor.

So this is after the show, you'll see the recording and then you can scrub through at the bottom and all those blue arrows essentially on the track, those are all the markers you created during the show.

So if you click on 1 of those, it'll take you to that part and just makes it really easy to find the things you wanted to go back and check.

Especially if you have a long show, like if you're doing an hour long show, maybe create 5 or 10 markers during the show.

Just saves you a lot of time having to find those again.

So Yeah, it is available to everybody now.

So if you have had a chance to use it and you have any feedback for us, definitely let us know.

Super curious if there's anything else you'd like to see beyond the 1 that's already come up a lot when it comes to integrating with the editors and whatnot that are out there.

All right, let's see what else we had for tonight.

Lancaster says, I have 2 email accounts registered at YouTube for streaming.

The easiest thing would just be make sure that whatever email, actually, it doesn't even actually matter which email account you're using on StreamRoute.

You just go through the connection flow on the destination section of StreamRoute and You can connect both of those accounts.

Tangled Stitch says, really excited about the new app and how easy it is for bringing guests onto the stream.

That was 1 of the other things we wanted to cover tonight.

It's been a few weeks now since the guest iOS app has been available.

In case you missed that announcement, the main reason why we added that feature is when it comes specifically to Safari, it's always been support for sort of the video tech that Streamred uses is always sort of lagged behind in Safari.

So in the interest of giving folks the best possible experience and the most stable experience on iOS, ultimately, we thought it made sense to add a native app specifically for that.

So yeah, with the main focus being making sure that we can give you guys the best quality audio and best quality video, even if you are on a mobile device.

First version is just for guests, but a producer version is also in the works.

Yeah, if anyone has feedback on it, it's definitely useful to know.

Those ones, MOV files are in the works, and it's something that we're exploring.

Captain Chris says, any updates on the StreamYard apps on iOS with the upcoming host experience and any potential of an Android version?

When it comes to an Android version, it's something we're open to.

I don't have anything concrete to announce there yet.

And the nice thing about Android is it generally has had much better support in Chrome and the browsers that it uses versus iOS, where it was more essential to have the native version.

But it's definitely something that we're open to.

Melnett says, just did a live stream and I was linked up to the host.

I'm a team member on their channel and noticed I was able to chat into StreamRouter and it posted on both live stream chats.

Yes, so if you're streaming to multiple channels and you chat, you will have the option to choose sort of which ones you want it to chat out to.

But I believe the default is that it will go out to all the chats, right Dan?

So there's, I guess there's 2 different things you could be referring to and I'm not sure which 1 it is, but if you have your actually, if you have permission to stream to this person's channel, then in the chat you'll have the option to post to all their destinations.

And at the bottom you can kind of see where it's selected to post to.

So if you're streaming to 2 YouTube channels, you'll see that it's selected as all.

And if you click into there, you can select the specific channel that you want to post to.

The alternative is if you don't have permissions to that stream, like if you're not on their team, it sounds like you are, if you're not though then there is another feature where guests can basically join the chat and in that case if you happen to be streaming to 2 YouTube channels, it will automatically post to both channels and you can't actually choose it from the post to, but I don't think that applies for you if you're on the team.

So I think you just need to select where you want to post to.

Then I want to make sure we have time to bring on our guest for tonight.

Gizzer Gary says, if I have any issues with the guest iOS app, what's the best way to report those?

I mean, there's obviously a live chat, but is there any stuff, anything in-app?

any issues whatsoever, the most helpful place is just in the app right on the homepage.

Just open up the app from scratch, not by clicking on a link on the website or something, but just by opening up the app on your phone.

Right at the top, there's a huge button to give feedback, just click into there and it should let you give feedback.

Cool, Chris says, do I need to set up the hotkey or do I click the letter B and it will mark the section of the live?

I believe it is B by default, Dan, but you can change it if you want to in the hotkeys.

Yeah, so it'll default to B unless you already have that bound to another hotkey.

But yeah, if you go into your settings, if you're familiar with it, in settings, there's a hotkey section.

You can change the hotkey if you want it to be something else.

And for the app as well, just for you, user Gary, if it's easier, if you prefer typing these out on computer, for example, you can just go to our streamlab.com slash contact page and just let our support team know if there's any issues you want to report.

Like me personally, I prefer typing on the computer, so I would do that, but.

Practical IT with Jeremy says, any news on when local recording will move out of beta?

So you can jump in Dan, if I'm misspeaking, but I think it's gotten to the stage now where beta, we just haven't really bothered to take the beta tag off, but it has been tested rigorously enough that it is not really in beta despite it still having the tag.

We are still working to improve it as much as possible and make it as performant and as good as we possibly can.

But we are, like it is a sort of production ready feature.

It's not really a beta feature, so we probably should go ahead and remove the tag.

Yeah, we're just gonna put the beta tag to be cautious just because There's a lot of kind of browser intricacies and whatnot with this feature.

There's still more things we're improving, so maybe soon we'll remove it.

Cool, we have a question from Dave says, any updates on increasing the number of brands and increasing the size slash length of video overlays, doubling the current sizes for both items would be great.

Yeah, the specific need for double being enough is good to know.

I don't have a date or anything, but it comes up a lot.

So I do think it's something that we likely will change.

And I appreciate the suggestion on the actual size.

Yep, so yeah, no updates yet, but definitely on our mind.

Cool, I see there's tons of other awesome questions here and we'll get back to those after our guests for tonight.

We have Brayden from the team who we're excited to have on.

For anybody who's never seen 1 of our App StreamYard shows before, or not many of them, we often like to bring on team members from StreamYard.

It basically just gives all of you a chance to meet everyone behind StreamYard, not just Gage and I.

So I've got a series of questions to ask Brayden, just basically to give you all a chance to get to know him.

And if anyone else has questions for Brayden, just feel free to ask away in the chat.

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

So I'm the growth marketer here at StreamYard.

So I'm responsible for our advertising initiatives.

I also support the marketing team, just promoting StreamYard at live events, communicating new features, and just anything that supports StreamYard and supporting our customers daily as well.

And then how long have you been at StreamYard now?

It's been just over 8 months, so I'm still fairly new, but yeah, it's been a blast.

What would you say is your favorite StreamYard feature?

So I'm still, despite me being young, I'm still trying to get used to the whole short form content thing.

So the repurposing feature really does come in handy when I'm posting to TikTok and reels and things like that.

And then What did you want to be when you were younger?

So when I was younger, I really, really wanted to be an astronaut.

Very cliche answer, but it was I was that kid.

And then how did you end up getting into growth marketing?

Yeah, my story, I guess is not like most.

I quickly realized I was afraid of heights.

So I started studying advertising at a very young age and I've been doing advertising professionally, basically as soon as I could work.

I was consulting freelancing and just anywhere anyone would have me.

And what would you say is your favorite thing about working in StreamHead?

You know, every day you log on your laptop, sometimes, you know, I work remotely, so sometimes it's hard to connect, but, you know, the whole team and organization here really makes it feel like you're right there with them, and everything that we do every day is very collaborative and just fun to be around others here at Streamr.

Even though I can't sing it, like to save my life, it would be Living on a Prayer by Bon Jovi.

Cool, and how about a favorite board game?

How would you answer our fun fact question?

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