Is there a good way to broadcast to Twitch, YouTube, and Reddit simultaneously? Is it a bad idea to target multiple communities?
How expensive is it to run your own single-tenant stream on your own website? Is that a bad idea?
Are users revolting on Twitch against the ads and RIAA take downs? Or is it unlikely to ever be unseated?
This is a function based on the number of viewers. The ingest and transcoding/transmuxing can be thought of as a fixed cost (and in many cases is free) and those operational expenses become rounding errors once the number of viewers surpasses a certain size. The real cost is egress (bandwidth leaving edge servers) and to a much lesser extent mid-gress (the cost of moving bytes between servers, e.g. from an origin to regional distribution server).
> Is that a bad idea?
Almost certainly a bad idea from a financial perspective. You have a bad bargain here. Either you have so few viewers that the bandwidth is manageable (i.e. no revenue) or so many viewers that there is literally no way for you to afford the bandwidth. If there is a goldilocks zone in the middle it is probably a tiny sliver. You have to have the perfect number of viewers and revenue with very little margin for error.
I remember one popular Twitch streamer (sodapoppin) was doing a QA with viewers where he addressed the question. He had hired some people to figure out the costs of setting up his own streaming server and it didn't work out financially for him. Other streamers have investigated it as well (Destiny?) and came to the same conclusion. If those top streamers can't make it work financially, I doubt anyone can to be honest.
Yes (disc: I dunno about reddit, do they have livestreams? haha I had no idea) restream.io is one service that does this, or you can configure your own nginx-rtmp
> Is it a bad idea to target multiple communities?
Probably, the way you're suggesting. Find your niche and stream on the site they use. You'll look like you're talking to nobody most of the time unless your users gather in one place. Viewers (ok, it's me) don't like it when you answer a question from someone and can't see what the question was. At least factor that in if you go down this path - re-state the question
> How expensive is it to run your own single-tenant stream on your own website?
Almost zero because nobody will watch it
> Is that a bad idea?
Not really but it might be a waste of time
> Are users revolting on Twitch against the ads and RIAA take downs?
Nah everyone else has forgotten and moved on. At the least folks don't care enough for there to be an uproar about it
> Or is it unlikely to ever be unseated?
Twitch unseated? On the heading they're on now, probably. Literally all they need to do is stop ads and push subs and they'll be locked in for generations. A single sub is worth like 2500 ad views and people gift them in 5s, 10s, 20s like it's going out of style.. what are they even doing with this ad focus? The only ads I even see are ads for Amazon Prime shows I've already watched anyway! Who's even paying for these??
Doing you own single-tenant stream is hard to manage and scale in general.