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Learn along your live streaming journey with posts designed to help you become a better broadcaster.

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How to Turn Your Phone Into a Webcam with the Camo App

The camera built into your smartphone is often a better option than the webcam that’s built into your laptop or computer, so it makes sense to use it...

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How to Stream to Facebook Live

This article looks at how to stream to Facebook Live. It covers the steps for streaming directly to the platform and how to multistream to...

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How to Live Stream Sports Like a Pro

Live streaming and broadcasting sports can be difficult when time isn’t on your side. This is made even worse when your setup is complicated, your...

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How to Live Stream on YouTube

This post looks at how to create a YouTube live stream. It covers the steps for streaming directly to the platform and how to multistream to other...

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How to Organize Your Live Streaming Video Gear

Let’s face it, we’re not ashamed to admit our video production gear could use a little spring cleaning. Whether it’s spring or not, we’re willing to...

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5 Tips for Live Streaming to a Remote Audience

Live streaming helps make people part of the experience when they can’t be present. Here are five ways you can optimize your broadcasts to connect...

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The Best Webcams for Live Streaming

How many times have you video chatted this week? More times than you’d have ever imagined a few years ago? Yeah, us too. Here’s the thing: Your...

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How to Live Stream Picture-in-Picture Video in a PowerPoint Slideshow

When live streaming, you can easily share content from your computer and present your webcam’s video feed all at once. This lets your audience see...

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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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How to Live Stream Video to Twitter without Periscope

Periscope, a pioneer in the world of online streaming, used to be the tool of choice for live video on Twitter. However, in March 2021 Twitter ...

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