Workspaces vs. Streams: Which One Do You Need?
Adding a Stream gives you a second channel that shares one media library; adding a Workspace gives you a fully separate space with its own library, team, and billing. Here's how to choose.
The Short Answer
It comes down to one question: do you want the two channels to share a media library, or stay completely separate?
Add a Stream when you want to run more than one channel at the same time but you're happy for them to share one media library, one team, and one bill.
Add a Workspace when you want the two channels fully separated — each with its own media library, its own team, and its own billing.
If your goal is to keep content from two different activities (say, a law firm and a music project) from ever mixing in the same library, that's a Workspace, not a second Stream.
What a Stream Is
A Stream is a single broadcast channel. Adding a second Stream lets you run two live channels concurrently — but both Streams live inside the same Workspace. That means they share:
one media library,
one storage pool,
one team and set of permissions,
one subscription and invoice.
So if you added a second Stream to your existing Workspace, both channels' videos would still sit together in the same library. More Streams changes how many channels you can run at once, not how your content is organized.
The number of Streams you can run at once is set by how many stream seats your Workspace's plan includes. See Understanding Plans and Pricing.
What a Workspace Is
A Workspace (previously called an "organization") is a fully independent space. Each Workspace has its own:
media library and storage,
streams, calendars, and overlays,
team and permissions,
platform destinations,
plan and billing.
Nothing crosses between two Workspaces — not content, not storage, not team members, not billing. You switch between them instantly from the Workspace switcher in the sidebar, all under a single login.
For the full picture, see Multiple Workspaces: Separate Brands, Separate Billing.
One Login, Many Workspaces
Your account is your single login, identified by your email address — one email, one account. You don't create a new account or a second email to get a second Workspace. That one login can own and belong to several Workspaces at once, and you move between them with one click.
A helpful way to picture it: your login is a keyring, and each Workspace is a separate room. Same person, different rooms, and nothing on the shelves of one room is visible from the other.
Team members are per Workspace. You can invite other people into a Workspace by email — as an owner, admin, or member — and they'll only ever see that Workspace's library and streams. You could give an assistant access to one Workspace without ever exposing the other.
Billing is per Workspace. Each Workspace carries its own subscription and its own invoice, which also keeps the two activities' expenses cleanly separated for accounting.
Side by Side
Add a Stream | Add a Workspace | |
|---|---|---|
Run channels at the same time | Yes | Yes |
Media library | Shared across streams | Separate per workspace |
Storage | Shared pool | Separate |
Team & permissions | Shared | Separate |
Platform destinations | Shared | Separate |
Billing | One subscription | One subscription per workspace |
Best when | You want more concurrent channels, content can live together | You want two activities kept completely apart |
A Worked Example
Say you're both a lawyer and a music artist, and you want your law-firm content and your artistic projects to stay completely independent — including separate libraries.
Two Streams in one Workspace wouldn't achieve this: both channels would still share a single library, so the law videos and the music videos would sit side by side. The right setup is two Workspaces:
Workspace 1 — Law firm: its own library, its own stream, its own subscription, its own team.
Workspace 2 — Artistic projects: its own library, its own stream, its own subscription, its own team.
You'd switch between the two from the sidebar, under one login, and the two libraries would never touch.
Good to Know
Your first Workspace can be on the Free plan; additional Workspaces are a paid feature. A second Workspace is created through checkout, so it starts on a paid plan rather than being created empty and upgraded later.
Content doesn't move between Workspaces. Isolation is the point, so you upload each activity's content into the Workspace where it belongs. Keep your master files in your own storage.
Add-ons are per Workspace. If both Workspaces need, say, 60fps, each one adds it separately.
Check the switcher before you go live. One login, several worlds — glance at the sidebar to confirm which Workspace you're in before touching anything live.