Your field rig already sends one feed to one ingest, and that part does not change when you add platforms. Multistreaming is a question about the other end of the chain: which machine makes the copies, and what that machine costs you.
Where the fan-out happens
There are two places it can live, and the choice is mostly about what hardware you already have.
Your own OBS. If you run the relay setup, OBS is already the thing connected to the platform, so adding outputs there is the obvious move. Nothing extra to subscribe to beyond the $9.99 endpoint. The cost is borne by your PC and your home upload: every additional output is another encode and another outbound stream from your house, so a machine that comfortably handled one destination will not automatically handle three.
A compositor in the cloud. Stage takes your single bonded feed, encodes it once at 1080p60, and pushes it to three destinations from our side. Your home connection is not in the path at all, so the number of destinations stops being your problem.
Neither is the clever answer. If you have a PC that is already up and has upload headroom, fanning out there is cheaper and you should do that. If you do not have that machine, or do not want it running unattended while you are out, streaming without a PC covers the other route.
Setting up destinations on Stage
/destinations create in Discord adds each one. Three can run at once on Stage and Stage+, and ten on the Custom tier.
- Twitch and YouTube use their standard ingest addresses.
- Kick uses an address tied to your own account, which you copy out of your Kick settings rather than getting from us.
- Custom accepts any
rtmp://,rtmps://orsrt://target, which covers everything else.
Three is a real cap, not a soft one
Stage and Stage+ both stop at three simultaneous destinations. If you need more than that, the Custom tier is the one that goes to ten. It is worth checking that against your actual list before you plan around it.
Enhanced Broadcasting, and where it applies
Stage+ adds Enhanced Broadcasting, which sends several bitrates rather than one. The point is viewers on weak connections: instead of buffering against a single 1080p60 output, they drop to a lower rung. This matters most if you are not a Twitch partner and therefore have no transcodes of your own.
Two limits worth knowing before you count on it. It is RTMP only, so an SRT destination does not get it, and it applies to Twitch and Kick.
What this does not solve
Multistreaming multiplies your outputs. It does nothing about the input. If your field connection drops, every destination drops together, because they are all downstream of the same uplink.
That is a separate layer, and it is the one worth fixing first: bond your connections with SRTLA so a dead modem cannot take the feed down, and make sure something holds the platform session when the feed goes rough. Keep your stream live when the signal drops covers that stack.
Stage is in early access and invite only, so access is requested rather than bought at a checkout.
FAQ
- Can I multistream directly from my phone?
- That is not how a bonded IRL rig is put together. Your phone sends one feed up to an ingest, and the fan-out to several platforms happens after that, either in your own OBS at home or in the cloud. The phone is not the place to solve this.
- How many platforms can Stage send to at once?
- Three at the same time on Stage and Stage+. Twitch, Kick, YouTube, or any custom RTMP or SRT address. The Custom tier raises that to ten.
- Do I need a separate multistreaming service?
- Not if the compositing already happens off your machine. Stage encodes your feed once and pushes it to your destinations from our side. If you run your own OBS on a PC with real upload, you can fan out from there instead.
- Does multistreaming cost me quality on Twitch?
- Not on its own, since each destination gets its own output. Stage+ adds Enhanced Broadcasting, which sends multiple bitrates so viewers on weaker connections do not buffer, but that is RTMP only and applies to Twitch and Kick.