Streamon

Live videos are one of the best ways to get in touch with your followers and keep them engaged, regardless of the social media platform we are talking about. It is proven to be one of the most productive methods to bring traffic to your online activity and, best of all, it can be done free of charge.

With that in mind, Streamon delivers an open-source live streaming application for Instagram, allowing you to deliver any kind of content to your followers during live sessions. You can use it to share your desktop activity in live tutorials, audio input or videos, scenes, text, window captures, movies, live streams, you name it!

Using Streamon is not difficult but keep in mind that it cannot perform live streaming on its own, as it only generates the streaming server credentials. In other words, you also need a dedicated broadcasting software tool to go live on Instagram. Fortunately, there are various you can try out with no cost at all. We chose OBS Studio for our tests, an open-source solution.

To begin working with Streamon, you have to first login to your Instagram account. Next, just click on the “Start Live Stream” button to proceed and wait for the application to generate the streaming URL and its associated key. From this point on, you need to shift to the broadcasting software you chose to proceed.

In OBS Studio, the streaming link and its key must be entered in the Settings window. Once you start streaming in the broadcasting tool, you can go live in Streamon as well, all with the click of a button.

Controlling the broadcast is done via the broadcasting tool, where you can choose to share anything you like with your audience on Instagram. For instance, OBS Studio enables you to share images and slideshows, the desktop activity, a browsing session, audio input and output, gaming sessions, and much more.

Streamon only generates the streaming link for your live sessions on Instagram so it cannot be used alone, a third-party broadcasting software tool is mandatory. It would be great to have it work as a standalone application to go live on Instagram.

Previewing of the live stream is not possible so, at the moment, you will not be able to see how everything looks like during the broadcast. Adding it preview capabilities for the live session, as well as viewer count logging and a sneak –peek window to the comment section would really add to its value, as you would be able to interact with the viewers during live sessions.