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What is the difference between instant and scheduled streams?
What is the difference between instant and scheduled streams?

Learn about the different setup methods for your stream's production.

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Written by Eli Sidiropoulou
Updated over 2 months ago

Whether you wanna give your followers a heads-up a few days in advance or go live on a whim, Restream supports both.


Instant streams

Instant streams are unscheduled live streams.

On your home screen, they will appear as stream cards that don't have a specific time and date associated with them. You can simply use them to go live at any point.

Instant streams are great for spontaneous surprise lives or platforms that don't provide an option to schedule an event in advance.


Scheduled streams

Scheduled streams are done using events and offer the option to create an event page on social platforms. This helps notify your audience that you're planning to go live.

On your home screen, they will appear as event cards with a date and time on them. You can use them to go live at the scheduled time.

Scheduled streams are an awesome way to promote your live in advance and increase your viewership.

💡 Set a recorded video to go live even while you're away.

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