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The Best USB Microphones for Computers + Live Streaming

Audio quality is one of the most important elements of video — especially live video. If you’re live streaming from a computer at home, the office,...

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How to Add a Picture-in-Picture Effect to Your Live Stream

If you’d like to feature a speaker during a presentation, highlight key parts of your broadcast, or just try something fun, you might consider adding...

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How to Build a Complete Video Strategy for Your Organization

Live streaming is just one element of a successful overall video strategy for your organization. This post addresses how to approach a broader video...

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What Mic Should I Use? 5 Types of Microphones for Video Production

Focusing on video production alone is like brushing your teeth without applying toothpaste. Yeah, that's right: It might get the job done (to a...

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What Live Streaming Setup Works Best for You? (for beginners)

If you're new to live streaming, you may not know what kind of setup you need to get started. Don't worry — this handy guide should help point you in...

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How to Start Live Streaming: Equipment, Platforms + More

Back in 2013 — when we started working with broadcasters — live streaming was limited and complicated. Creating great live video was a complex...

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How To Live Stream At Home

If (out of necessity or just habit) your events have gone hybrid or completely virtual, you may have found yourself in a situation that requires you...

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Stream Strong, with a Service That Scales

Nowadays, live streaming is becoming a necessity for organizations that want to reach sizable remote audiences. If yours is a large organization with...

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Extend Your Reach with RSS Feeds

If your organization is looking to repurpose content you're already livestreaming, sharing an RSS feed is an easy way to start. This post explains...

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8 Easy Ways to Improve Your Live Video Stream

This talks about the steps to makes sure that you have a successful stream each time you broadcast. It breaks down different things to consider when...

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5 Steps You Must Take Before Streaming Live

This post addresses five steps to take before each stream to ensure you have a quality broadcast. It's part of our series onhow to start live...

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The Best Strategy for Buying Live Video Equipment

This post is a summary of the steps that you should consider working through as you purchase new video and audio equipment for your organization....

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4K Live Streaming — The Right Questions to Ask

This post covers the factors (including encoding, bandwidth, transcoding, playback, and device compatibility) required to deliver a 4K broadcast to...

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