To support our podcasters and enable creators to do more, the Melon team is excited to announce that our free users now have access to recording features! From now on, if you are on free plan you can access recording as well as streaming! We included step-by-step instructions below. How

Trovo is a new interactive live streaming platform committed to support creator careers in gaming and live streaming. Trovo is growing rapidly and is a must if you want to increase your social presence and grow your community reach. Below we'll cover how you can start streaming on Trovo right

The Melon team was closely monitoring live streaming trends and we noticed that more and more people gather on screen together for talk shows, Q&A sessions, online panel discussions, and more. We decided to increase participants' limits for our users - now you can have up to 12 people

When you added yourself to the broadcast today, you probably noticed new network indicators displayed on your camera feed next to your name tag. You may be wondering: what's this for? In short, we released these identifiers to let you know when your guest's internet connection is struggling and to

What Is Stream Forwarding? Stream Forwarding (also known as RTMP in) allows you to connect to 3rd-party platforms with Melon in order to multistream to your favorite streaming destinations, taking advantage of both Melon and apps like OBS. Who Is Stream Forwarding For You might be interested in stream forwarding

Melon's new teleprompter function allows you to nail your live stream by displaying a script that only you will see on screen. In this blog, we'll show you how you can easily sound professional and polished. What is Teleprompter Teleprompter, also known as Autocue, is broadly used on TV during

In this blog we will cover 3 things: (1) importance of chat in your livestreams, (2) how to engage with chat, (3) 6 improvements we've made to chat

We are here with some product updates that keep coming because you constantly provide very valuable feedback! Melon team is releasing new features frequently and we'd like to highlight some of them: Dark mode Let’s go over to the dark side together! But first, what is it? The purpose

Here at Melon, we're always listening to our community. Whether it's new feature suggestions or how we can improve something, we take everything into consideration. In addition to significant product improvements like local recording [https://melonapp.com/blog/record-video-in-hd-with-local-recording/], hotkeys [https://melonapp.com/blog/how-to-set-up-hotkeys-in-melon-broadcasting-studio/], and volume control for guests

With a complete shutdown of Periscope and full transfer to Twitter we couldn't miss a chance to add it as a new destination - Add your Twitter account by following the below steps: 1. From your Melon Studio 2. Click on Go Live 3. Select your destination or by pressing

With Melon’s new ability to play pre-recorded videos for your live streams, it's no longer necessary to broadcast in real-time. We’ll help walk you through how to schedule your stream using an already prerecorded video. 1. From your Melon Studio click the Schedule icon 2. Click +Schedule to

Learn how you can add music to your live stream for free with Melon's online video platform.

We’re happy to provide our creators with this much-requested option and hope it’s helpful! Below we'll discuss how to adjust the volume control: 1. Controlling your guest's volume as the host 2. Controlling your volume as the guest Adjusting your Guest's Volume Managing the volume of your guests

Today, Melon [https://melonapp.com/] is excited to introduce new layouts that you can use when sharing your screen. If you’re not familiar, Melon is a browser-based streaming application that lets you live stream to platforms like Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitch in just five clicks. Our goal with

You asked, we delivered. Three (3) new layouts on Melon you can find right now. What are the 3 new livestream layouts? Check out this video from our product guru Veronika. :) new overlays for your live-stream with melonWhy these 3? Because the majority of folks voted for them. We actively

Streamlabs Cloudbot is a moderation and entertainment tool that live streamers can access from Melon studio. It’s the only chatbot that works for Twitch and YouTube simultaneously, and it’s now available for Melon users. With Cloudbot you can protect your live stream chat and engage your community at

We have launched a brand new redesign of your studio. Packed with exciting new features such as text presets, theme styles, and many more. Our team at Melon has been thinking hard about how to make your streaming experience more enjoyable. We are confident that these changes will make you

Here at Melon, we're on a mission to make you a livestreaming pro as effortlessly as possible without needing any serious technical skill. We are constantly innovating on how to make your streaming setup convenient by providing you with the tools to share screen [https://melonapp.com/blog/how-to-screen-share], stream

In a previous post we covered profiles as a big part of broadcast customization [https://melonapp.com/blog/save-your-stream-settings-with-stream-profiles]. Today we are going to talk more about overlays - new feature we added to help you stand out of the streaming crowd. What is a stream overlay? Overlay is a

Live streaming is growing fast. According to an industry report from Streamlabs, viewers watched 27.9 billion hours of content across all streaming platforms in 2020. (LINK) This is up 78.5% from 15.63 billion hours in 2019. This means massive growth for creators who stream daily. With alert

1000s of you asked for this and we are happy to deliver. You can now highlight viewer comments on stream in Melon. Highlight chat comments on your livestream Click the chat bubble icon from your Melon Studio [https://melonapp.com/studio] and select Stream. Mouse over the comment you want

Do you want to properly introduce yourself before your stream? Maybe you want to close things out by sharing content at the end of your show? Or you already have the perfect video to play at the end or beginning of your stream. We have you covered! 1. Media upload