Dual Format Streaming Whys and Hows with Peggy Kolm

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This week OnEBoard's Peggy Kolm shared the advantages of live streaming in both vertical and horizontal formats, and shared tools you can use to manage your streams.
This week's background was a Meet-generated forest in June, the same as last week's Tech Topic.

Topics

This week OnEBoard took a look at the advantages of dual format streaming on YouTube and Twitch. 
  • What is Dual Format streaming? And how does it differ from multistreaming?
  • How a full screen vertical stream can boost your viewership.
  • Using your vertical stream recording to repurpose content and create clips.
  • The advantage of meeting your audience where they are.
  • Making your livestreams more discoverable in the YouTube Shorts feed or Twitch mobile feed.
  • Advantages of YouTube's native vertical streaming. 
  • Third party tools to manage your streams, including OBS with Aitum Vertical plugin, Streamlabs, and Restream. 
  • Technical considerations for processing power and bandwidth requirements.
  • Visual layout strategies for vertical and landscape orientations.
  • The future of live streaming.

Takeaways


Peggy says: "Stream where your viewers are."  69% of YouTube views are on mobile and 70% of new viewers on Twitch use mobile devices.

Peggy says: "If you use a service that processes [your live streams] on their servers in the cloud, that takes the weight off your own computer." This reduces potentially high processor and bandwidth requirements. 

Bob noted that Peggy used a square presentation format in her dual stream: "It looks to me like ... a way to make your content more usable vertical or landscape is to make it square."

Nina shared her experience cropping a landscape video into a vertical video, and noted that result in low resolution "disturbing" videos.

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