# Streaming for Social Media (Self-Paced)

Canonical URL: <https://training-nyc.com/courses/streaming-social-media-online>

## Overview

There are countless ways to get your message out on social media, and streaming has become one of the liveliest for reaching an audience. Creators have spent more than a decade using live streaming to grow communities and present their work as it happens. This course examines the leading platforms, Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok among them, and walks through setting up and running your own broadcasts in OBS, a free and flexible streaming application.

## What you'll learn

- Configuring OBS for a live stream
- How streaming to Twitch works and why it is useful
- How streaming to YouTube works and why it is useful
- How streaming to TikTok works and why it is useful
- Configure OBS for a live stream
- Stream to Twitch and understand where it fits

## Curriculum

#### OBS for Streaming

- How to set-up content sources
- Using sources to establish scenes
- Connecting to your streaming account
- Connecting Streams to NightBot
- How to start streaming through OBS

#### Streaming on Twitch

- Introduction and History of Twitch
- The Twitch community, subscriptions and emotes
- Twitch Affiliate and Partners
- How to work with OBS and Twitch
- Reaching goals and establishing a schedule

#### Streaming on YouTube

- Introduction and History of YouTube streaming
- The YouTube community and subscriptions
- How to work with OBS and YouTube
- Reaching goals and establishing a schedule

#### Streaming on TikTok

- Introduction and History of TikTok Live
- The benefits and disadvantages of vertical streaming
- Subscriptions and TikTok gifts
- Establishing a theme for content
- Reaching goals and establishing a schedule
- Additional vertical streaming platforms

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $325