Where to go live: YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitch or a private room
8 October 2026
Snazzy Pro can stream your slides, screen and camera live. Where you send that stream matters more than the settings: it decides who can find you, who can watch and whether the replay is kept.
Pick the place by audience
| Audience | Best place | Why |
|---|---|---|
| The public: learners, customers, developers | YouTube Live | Free, huge reach, people find it in search later, and YouTube keeps the replay for you. |
| Business buyers, IT and security teams | LinkedIn Live | That's where professional and enterprise buyers already are. |
| Developer community, casual streams | Twitch or X | Smaller, niche audiences that like live, informal sessions. |
| A class or team in the same room or building | Snazzy Pro live room | Students join from a QR code in their browser. Nothing leaves your Wi-Fi, and there's a brainstorm board. |
| Private company talks | Not YouTube | “Unlisted” isn't private: anyone with the link can watch. Use a live room for groups on site, or your company's own streaming server. |
Why not peer to peer for big audiences?
Sending video straight from your Mac to each viewer is perfect for a classroom on one Wi-Fi network, and that's exactly what Snazzy Pro's live room does. It doesn't scale to hundreds of people across the internet: your upload would have to carry a copy for every viewer. Platforms like YouTube do the hard part (servers, bandwidth, replays) for free.
Things to know before you go live
- Delay. Viewers see you about 2–5 seconds late with YouTube's low-latency mode. That's fine for talks and lessons, but too slow for back-and-forth conversation.
- Upload speed. 1080p needs about 6 Mbps of steady upload per destination, 720p about 3.5 Mbps. If yours can't keep up, Snazzy Pro lowers the quality automatically and tells you.
- Privacy. Going live is the one time your video leaves your Mac. Snazzy Pro says exactly what will be sent and asks before every stream. Your stream keys stay in your Mac's Keychain.
- Keep a copy. Snazzy Pro records the same picture to your Mac while you're live, so you always have the full-quality file.
Streaming to two places at once
You can tick YouTube and LinkedIn (or any combination) and go live on both. Each needs its own upload, so check you have enough bandwidth first: two 1080p streams need about 12 Mbps up.