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Stream Your 24/7 Loop to Twitch, Facebook, or Any RTMP Platform

Stream Your 24/7 Loop to Twitch, Facebook, or Any RTMP Platform

Key takeaways

  • Loopcast's YouTube integration (auto-created broadcasts, thumbnails, analytics) is still the deepest and easiest path — but a stream's manual-key field now also accepts Twitch, Facebook Live, and any other RTMP-compatible destination.
  • Setup takes one field: paste your platform's ingest URL and stream key, or just the key if you picked Twitch from the built-in tab.
  • Each stream still has one destination at a time — this isn't simultaneous multi-platform broadcasting, it's the choice of where a single loop runs.

Loopcast was built around YouTube first, and that's still where the fully automated experience lives — connect your account once and Loopcast creates the broadcast, thumbnail, and stats for you. But the underlying mechanism was never actually YouTube-specific: it's an RTMP relay, the same protocol every major streaming platform accepts. So a stream's manual-key field now works with more than YouTube.

What changed

Every Loopcast stream has a "Stream key" card with a manual option — previously labeled specifically for YouTube. It now has three tabs:

  • YouTube — unchanged. Paste your bare key from YouTube Studio → Go Live → Stream.
  • Twitch — paste just your key from Twitch Creator Dashboard → Settings → Stream. Loopcast adds Twitch's ingest address for you.
  • Custom RTMP — paste a full destination URL, including your key. This covers Facebook Live, Kick, or a self-hosted RTMP server — anything that publishes a standard rtmp:// ingest endpoint.

Once saved, Go Live behaves exactly the same regardless of destination: the same 24/7 looping, the same live playlist editing (add/remove/reorder/trim without stopping the stream), the same reliability engineering underneath.

What's still YouTube-only

Connecting your YouTube account unlocks a layer of automation that's specific to YouTube's own API — there's no equivalent for Twitch or Facebook to plug into the same way:

  • Auto-created broadcasts (no stream key to copy)
  • Custom broadcast thumbnails
  • YouTube Analytics stats (views, watch time, subscribers) in your dashboard
  • Scheduled Go Live

A Twitch or custom-RTMP stream skips all of that and goes straight to relaying your loop — which is exactly what most 24/7 ambience, radio, or rerun channels actually need.

Setting up a Twitch stream

  1. In Twitch Creator Dashboard, go to Settings → Stream and copy your Primary Stream Key.
  2. In your Loopcast dashboard, open the stream you want to route to Twitch and switch its Stream key card to the Twitch tab.
  3. Paste your key and save.
  4. Build (or reuse) a playlist for that stream and hit Go Live.

Your Twitch channel goes live with the same looping playlist you'd otherwise run on YouTube — no re-uploading, no separate encoder.

Facebook Live, Kick, or a custom server

These don't have a dedicated tab (yet), but work the same way via Custom RTMP:

  1. In the platform's live-producer settings, find its RTMP ingest URL and stream key (Facebook Live's is under Live Producer → Stream Setup).
  2. Combine them into one full URL, e.g. rtmp://live-api-s.facebook.com:80/rtmp/<your-key>.
  3. Paste that full string into the Custom RTMP tab and save.

What doesn't work

Instagram and TikTok don't currently offer public RTMP ingest to regular accounts — that access exists only behind platform-specific approval processes most creators don't have, not something any third-party tool can add. If a platform doesn't hand you an RTMP URL + key from its own settings page, Loopcast can't reach it either.

Frequently asked questions

Can I run the same content on YouTube and Twitch at once?

Not from one stream — each stream has one destination. If you want the same loop live on two platforms simultaneously, set up two separate streams (available on Pro), each pointed at a different platform, with the same videos in both playlists.

Does switching to Twitch or Custom RTMP cost extra?

No — it uses the same manual-key mechanism already included on Creator and Pro plans. The auto-broadcast, thumbnail, and analytics features that stay YouTube-only were already gated the same way before this change.

Will my existing YouTube streams keep working the same way?

Yes — nothing changes for the YouTube tab or for any account already using OAuth-connected YouTube. This is additive.