What's new

What's Better

Streams are now significantly more resilient to mid-stream hiccups.

A handful of edge cases that used to cause stalls or drops, corrupted frames, brief network blips, momentary file access issues, now recover automatically, usually within a few seconds, without your viewers noticing.

The visible result: fewer "the stream went down" moments and faster recovery when something does go wrong.

What's Better

Transitions between videos in a playlist are now seamless.

The next item is loaded into memory while the current item is playing. By the time the current item ends, the next one is ready to start instantly, no buffering blink, no momentary frozen frame, no half-second stutter.

If you've been running 24/7 streams and noticed the occasional half-second blink between clips, this is the fix.

What's New

Streams can now auto-start before a calendar block begins and auto-stop after the last block ends.

If your show only happens Tuesday at 7pm, your stream only runs Tuesday at 7pm. No manual start. No manual stop. No remembering.

What's New

Every block on the Calendar can now recur automatically, daily, weekly, or monthly.

Build your weekly schedule once. The blocks repeat themselves, on the days and times you set, forever. Or until a date you specify. Or for a fixed number of occurrences.

What's New

We're shipping the most-requested feature of the past year: a visual calendar for programming your stream.

Create a new Scheduled Stream, drag videos, playlists, and compositions onto a weekly grid, and your channel runs itself, automatically, on the times you set, every week, forever.

It's TV-style programming for the streaming era. Set it once. Watch it run.

What's New

The eight layout presets in Live Studio cover most shows. But sometimes you want something the presets can't do, an asymmetric panel, a magazine-style layout, a branded frame with sources in specific spots.

The Custom layout lets you build your own. Drag any source to any position. Resize it, layer it, save it. Switch back to it next week with a single click, just like the presets.

What's New

Live Studio now has a dedicated Record button alongside Go Live.

Click Record to capture your show, host, guests, layouts, screen shares, overlays, the whole thing, to your media library, without broadcasting to a single destination.

When you're ready to broadcast, click Go Live instead. Or run a recording-only session this week and a live one next week. Same workflow, same setup.

What's New

You can now bring RTMP sources straight into Live Studio.

Click Add RTMP Source in the Sources panel, get a unique RTMP URL and stream key, and point any encoder at it, a hardware encoder rack at a venue, a smartphone with a streaming app, a drone, an IP camera, OBS on someone else's machine, anything that speaks RTMP.

Once it's connected, the feed shows up as a source on your canvas, alongside your browser camera, your guests, and your screen share. Drag it. Resize it. Drop it into any layout.

What's New

Today we're launching the biggest update in playout.video's history, Live Studio.

Live Studio is a new stream type that lets you produce a real, interactive live show entirely in your browser. Bring on guests, share your screen, switch between professional layouts, drop in clips from your media library, and broadcast to every destination you've connected, all from one tab.

If you've been using playout.video to run a Live Channel (our 24/7 looping stream), you can now also go live in front of the camera. And if you've been wrestling with downloadable streaming software, capture cards, and per-guest invitations, Live Studio replaces all of it.

What's New

A new Shuffle toggle in the playlist panel that automatically reshuffles your playlist items after each loop pass.

Shuffle Mode

What's New

Managing playlists on a live 24/7 stream just got significantly easier with two new features.

Inline Playlist Switching

What's New

Two highly requested updates to the Composition Editor are now live.

Audio Visualizer Overlay

What's New

We've shipped a complete self-service support system so you can find answers without waiting for a reply.

Help Center

What's New

A new Encoding Profile setting that lets you optimize your stream's bitrate for the platform you're targeting.

Two Profiles, One Choice

What's New

Two updates that expand where and how you can stream.

Kick: OAuth Connected

What's New

Getting started with playout.video is now even easier with a guided onboarding wizard and a redesigned Go Live dialog.

Onboarding Wizard

We're Live 🚀

Today we're launching playout.video — a cloud platform that makes 24/7 live streaming simple for everyone. No dedicated hardware, no OBS, no technical expertise. Upload your content, build a playlist, connect your platforms, and go live.

Here's everything included from day one.

What's New

A completely redesigned visual timeline and playlist editor that give you full visibility and control over your stream's content.

Visual Timeline

What's New

A brand-new Composition Editor that lets you add visual overlays on top of your live stream, directly in the browser.

How It Works

What's New

You can now automate stream operations with a built-in scheduling system. Set it once and let the platform handle the rest.

Five Action Types

What's New

The media library has been rebuilt from the ground up. Every interaction — uploading, browsing, searching, selecting, and organising files — is faster and more intuitive.

Drag-and-Drop Uploads

What's New

You can now import videos directly from YouTube into your playout.video library — no manual download required. Enter a YouTube URL, and the platform pulls the video, extracts metadata (title, thumbnail, duration), and adds it to your media library ready for playout.

YouTube Import

What's New

You can now connect your streaming platform accounts directly to playout.video and manage all your destinations from a single dashboard.

OAuth-Connected Platforms