Livestreaming your church service: some options
A free guide from the United Reformed Church to help you livestream your church service.
What is livestreaming?
Live streaming is the broadcasting of real-time video and audio to an audience over the internet, this can be done on a variety of platforms from a number of devices.
What are the options?
These guidelines will offer three-tiers of live streaming that depend on the equipment and expertise available to you and your church. This will start with a smart phone streaming to Facebook, all the way up to multiple cameras with band performance.
The most accessible platform for streaming to existing members is Facebook (which we will cover in detail in Option 1) but you can also stream on YouTube, Twitter (via Periscope) and YouNow among others. There are limitations for each platform (including needing 1000 subscribers to stream to YouTube from your phone) but each comes with their own merits which will need to be examined before using any platform.
As Facebook is the most accessible platform for most people, we will explore streaming to Facebook in more details in Option 1.
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