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Multistreaming to YouTube or TikTok

One OBS stream to dick.com and YouTube or TikTok.

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You can send one OBS stream to dick.com and to YouTube or TikTok at the same time. A common setup is a full, free stream on YouTube to grow your audience, with a longer session or extras here for fans who pay. Each platform has its own rules about pointing viewers elsewhere, so read them below before you go live.

Set up

  1. Install the free obs-multi-rtmp plugin from github.com/sorayuki/obs-multi-rtmp.
  2. In OBS, open Tools › Multiple Output and add dick.com: server rtmps://live.cloudflare.com:443/live/ and your stream key from Stream.
  3. Add YouTube or TikTok with the key from YouTube Studio or TikTok Live.
  4. Click Start All.

Requirements

  • At least 10 Mbps upload for two 1080p streams.

Each platform’s rules

  • YouTube: stream the real thing there, not a short teaser made to send viewers here. YouTube treats content made only to drive viewers off YouTube as spam. Mentioning that there’s more on dick.com is fine.
  • TikTok: don’t show QR codes or keep asking LIVE viewers to pay somewhere else. In the US, TikTok can stop recommending a LIVE that does, and make it ineligible for LIVE earnings.
  • Twitch: this guide doesn’t cover Twitch. Twitch allows simulcasting only if its viewers get as good a stream as everyone else, and you don’t send them to another site.