Zoom is making it easy to plug your meeting directly into Twitch

Zoom introduced on Wednesday that it’s making it simpler to livestream your assembly or webinar to Twitch by including native integration with the streaming service to its app. After you join your Zoom and Twitch accounts, you can begin broadcasting your assembly with just some clicks.

Zoom says the function is supposed to “streamline the method of sharing content material inside” communities, which positively sounds prefer it expects this for use for issues like firm webinars. There are numerous use circumstances I can consider for this sort of factor, although — it’d be a straightforward possibility for individuals who wish to do a stay podcast, share a sermon, or make one thing like a city corridor assembly publicly obtainable. Or heck, simply stream your 8AM stand-up in case you’re actually enthusiastic about sharing what you’re engaged on with the world (although you’d most likely wish to examine firm coverage to ensure that’s okay).

To be clear, it’s not prefer it was unimaginable to stream a Zoom assembly to Twitch earlier than. Zoom helps streaming to different platforms like Fb and YouTube and would allow you to add a customized streaming service — so technically, you might’ve streamed to Twitch by including your streaming URL and key. You possibly can’ve additionally arrange OBS and used it to stream a gathering, however each of these choices would’ve been extra complicated than the brand new course of, which simply entails clicking a “Stay on Twitch” button and logging into the service.