I’ve been looking into live streaming as a way to get my music in front of an audience, where that connection between the writer/performer and audience can be made. While basic streaming to one endpoint/broadcast destination is free, broadcasting to multiple locations begins to get pretty expensive. It seems to be relatively new, as a practice, charging for multiple broadcast destinations. Essentially, most platforms I have investigated, give access to one destination per platform. For example Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc. The issue is that you only get one location. So, on Facebook you might have your personal profile, an artist page, a group page etc. In my case I have my personal profile, two artist pages, a Songstuff page, a Songstuff group page, a Songstuff Independent music stage page and group, plus a test group.

At home I use both OBS Studio and Stream Labs OBS for encoding. I was looking at using Restream.io to stream to multiple destination but it gets expensive pretty quickly.

So, until a better solution presents itself, I plan to use:

(OBS Studio -> restream.io-> Songstuff Facebook Group

or

OBS Studio -> restream.io -> Songstuff Facebook Page)

+

OBS Studio -> restream.io-> Soungstuff YouTube Channel

OBS Studio -> restream.io-> Songstuff Twitch

OBS Studio -> restream.io-> Songstuff Periscope

OBS Studio -> restream.io-> Songstuff LinkedIn (Maybe)

Streamlabs OBS -> Johnmoxey Facebook Page

That leaves Songstuff Independent Music Stage (Facebook Group) until we have budget (we also need a broadcast license) plus nothing for Deep Red Sea or RC7. I feel all 3 are different brands that should have different accounts, but the trouble is that restream view them as the same person because they access multiple Facebook pages and groups via the one base account and the same for YouTube accessing multiple channels through the one base Google account.

It’s very frustrating!