Restream
About Restream
Restream helps businesses, content creators, influencers, and bloggers stream live, as well as recorded, content to audiences across various social media channels including YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Mixer, Periscope, and more. Users can monitor bitrate, frames per second (FPS), and frame drops across videos to help improve the streaming quality.
Restream enables users to personalize the chat interface using customizable templates or themes, add a chatbox to video streams, and manage multiple interactions from a unified portal, facilitating engagement with audiences. It offers numerous features such as metadata updating, automated alerts, live voiceovers and translations, bots, text-to-speech alerts, customizable branding, and more. Restream also comes with a scheduling functionality, which enables administrators to upload recorded videos and plan broadcasts by date, time, and platform.
Restream’s analytics dashboard allows professionals to gain visibility into the performance of streams across multiple channels, trending content, and audience engagement via sentiment analysis and reports. The platform supports integration with various third-party applications including OBS Studio, SLOBS, Elgato, XSplit, and more.
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- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Intuitive Live Streaming Platform
Reviewed on 2021/01/06
Overall I really like Restream and their customer support when talking to the right people is very...
Overall I really like Restream and their customer support when talking to the right people is very good.
They could do with being more on the ball with what their competitors offer as I think they were ahead of the game initially but are missing features that others are now offering which makes them not the leader like they think they are. This comes across a little in their customer support at times.
Pros
1. The Livestudio system they offer is a very simple yet feature rich system to be able to do live and recorded videos. It also allows you to stream prerecorded videos as part of a live stream.
2. The Scheduling system to stream pre-recorded videos is great to ensure mitigate any risks in your own internet going down during important video streams.
Cons
1. The quality of the livestream video is very dependent on your own bandwidth so even if using it for making a recorded video, the quality is not as good as it could be, so it can't be used to make quality offline videos, which it should be able to.
I dont like that the local videos you upload to stream live actually still come from your own machine and not from their server even though it has been uploaded, this means that you are still limited by your own bandwidth. Competitors get round this by allowing any uploaded videos more than a few hours old to stream from their servers.
2. They have a limited time of 10 minutes before you can schedule a video which is not competitive as competitors such as Castr offer a 1 minute scheduling. This is important for when you need to schedule an emergency video
Reasons for Switching to Restream
Restream has a very intuitive live stream system which will hopefully keep improving.
- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Streaming Service That Gets The Job Done
Reviewed on 2021/08/10
To start out our community streaming this was a great product. There are a lot of competitors out...
To start out our community streaming this was a great product. There are a lot of competitors out there with varying strengths and niche focuses. I would recommend ranking the feature set you are looking at before purchasing a streaming service. This would make the purchase process much easier.
Pros
- You can quickly enter the streaming room after a Stream is created.
- Restream made connecting to LinkedIn and YouTube reasonably easy.
- Restream seems to have an excellent Discord integration, but it's not something we used.
Cons
- While we were using the product, it was a pain to set up the stream. You would have to go to YouTube and schedule a live streaming event. Then come back to Restream to connect the scheduled event to a Restream based streaming event. The process was relatively unintuitive.
- To my knowledge, after using the service for four months. There is no way to invite multiple people onto your stream. It's just you.
- Very limited customizability on the display of YouTube comments during a stream. This feature is something Streamyard does VERY well (we switched to them because of this).
Reasons for Switching to Restream
We chose Restream since it seemed like the easiest software to start with. That proved to be true.Response from Restream
Hello Eirik,
Thank you for the review! We wanted to offer some solutions if you're going to try our service again in the future.
Using Restream Events, you can post an upcoming event on YouTube (also Facebook and Linkedin) directly on our website. Restream Events provides options to create the event, add a thumbnail, and go live all in one place. Here is a guide for next time:
https://support.restream.io/en/articles/4364026-getting-started-with-restream-events
The Restream Studio also offers the Guest URL, which can invite people to go live with you. You can have up to 10 people creating content simultaneously with you right in the Studio. Here is a guide for the future:
https://support.restream.io/en/articles/3998533-restream-studio-guests
We greatly appreciate your feedback about the customization options you are looking for with the Comments from the connected channels. We will take your feedback and use it to improve in meaningful ways.
Best,
Victor
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10
Good product Bad People
Reviewed on 2023/08/16
A decent product with a bad business model.
A decent product with a bad business model.
Pros
I liked that multiple YouTube channels can be selected to stream to at once.
Cons
I enjoy the product. But I had a terrible time dealing with customer service. No reminder before recharging for a year. We have selected a new service and I reached out to cancel on the same day we were billed. They are refusing my request to cancel. Very upsetting. Smells of desperation on their end.
- Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
A good live streaming tool that still needs some work.
Reviewed on 2022/08/30
The overall experience is positive, but there are a lot of frustrations related to using it weekly....
The overall experience is positive, but there are a lot of frustrations related to using it weekly. We're considering switching to another streamer. If it were not for the learning curve that requires time investment, we would have done it a while back.
Pros
I like that it gets the job done, most of the time. Quite easy to install, set and use. I like the scheduling feature and the fact that we can personalize the videos to be true to our brand. And the fact that you can stream on multiple social media platforms simultaneously, most of the times working neatly.
Cons
When we started using Restream, my partner and I, who are also the admins for the platform, could go live on our LinkedIn accounts simultaneously. Meanwhile they changed something and this is not possible anymore. Even when I share the live link with my partner, he cant't join the live from his phone, no button available...Unfortunately, because of this, we can't take advantage of streaming on multiple channels on the same platform, which is very frustrating.
Alternatives Considered
StreamyardReasons for Switching to Restream
We went with Restream as it was the first we got to try out.- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
My Restream Review after 1 year
Reviewed on 2022/03/17
Overall, my experience has been great. I multistream to Twitch, Facebook, and Youtube. Unfortunately...
Overall, my experience has been great. I multistream to Twitch, Facebook, and Youtube. Unfortunately, Instagram is not available to stream from any computer-based program due to Meta policies, and they cannot do anything regarding that. But so far, so good.
The main reason I use it is the integration with Ecamm, which is my main streaming software, the video quality, and the cloud recording is very useful to later take clips to publish
Pros
The most important of all features is the Ecamm Live integration. Being able to read comments from different platforms/social media from the same chatbox. Also, the video quality that Restream provides is the best with barely any delay. When they dropped the Restream branding in the basic standard tier, it was a no brainer about what multistream software to use, especially the discount for Ecamm users under the Ecamm Perks program
Cons
Restream needs to incorporate an HTML5 embedded player /chatbox. Many of us would be very benefited by this, especially the ones that would like to use our own website and private subcriptions. FYI: Streamyard already offers an embedded player
Alternatives Considered
CastrReasons for Choosing Restream
I never felt comfortable with the Streamyard graphics and video quality. Overall don't feel comfortable with browser-based streaming platformsSwitched From
StreamyardReasons for Switching to Restream
The video and streaming quality, and the overall chat integration with EcammRestream FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Restream.Q. What type of pricing plans does Restream offer?
Restream offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$19.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Not Available
Restream offers a Free plan with a taste of multistreaming. Paid subscriptions include: - Standard - $19 per month or $16 per month (billed annually) - Professional - $49 per month or $41 per month (billed annually)
Q. Who are the typical users of Restream?
Restream has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Restream support?
Restream supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Restream support mobile devices?
Restream supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Restream integrate with?
Restream integrates with the following applications:
LinkedIn for Business, Meta for Business
Q. What level of support does Restream offer?
Restream offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep)
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