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🔗 Connect a channel
The easy way. Connect once and every live show goes out on its own: a fresh
broadcast each time, ultra-low latency, and viewers in the app watch it there.
No stream key to find, nothing to paste.
Twitch, Facebook and the rest still use a stream key for now. Pick one below.
📤 Send your leads somewhere
Every signup and every lead, posted to a URL of yours the moment it happens: Zapier,
Make, n8n, your CRM, or your own endpoint. Signed, so you
can prove it came from us.
📡 Where this show goes out
Pick a platform and we'll tell you what to paste. Or anywhere else that takes RTMP.
📡 Streaming somewhere else?
Facebook, Twitch, Kick, X, LinkedIn, anywhere that takes RTMP. Up to 20 at once, as your plan allows.
Paste just the stream key: we fill in the rest. (A full rtmp:// URL works too.)
Free includes 1 destination. 💛 Starter streams to 3, Creator to 5, and Pro and up to as many as you add.
🎛 More ways to reach people
Watch party · 4K passthrough · play a video into the show · Twitch chat · vertical for IG and TikTok.
📺 Watch party: send viewers to your YouTube live
Paste your YouTube live link and people watching in the Bright Side app see that stream instead of joining the room. Chat, reactions and bringing someone on air all still work. They'll be a few seconds behind. Worth it for a big crowd, skip it for a small one.
🎬 4K passthrough: bring your own encoder
Stream from OBS at ANY quality (4K, 60fps, whatever your rig makes) and we forward the exact bytes to every destination above. No re-encode, no quality loss.
Point OBS at:
Server:
Stream key: Sends to the destinations saved above. Tap the button again after changing them.
🎞 Upload & stream: play a recording into the show
Drop in a public link to an .mp4 or .m3u8 and it joins the stage like a guest, so it goes out to every destination and lands in the recording. Great for a premiere, a trailer, or filling a slot while you're away.
💬 Cross-platform chat
Your Twitch chat flows into the Comments rail live. Stage the good ones like any comment.
A second vertical version of your show streams here at the same time. Paste the Stream URL and Stream key joined together, with no space between them.
📸 Instagram: read this first
• Needs a Professional account (Settings → Account type). Personal accounts have no Live option at all.
• On instagram.com: Create → Live video. You get a Stream URL and a Stream key: paste them joined, URL first.
• Both halves are single-use. Instagram issues a new pair for every broadcast, so there's nothing worth saving. Grab it right before you start.
• Once we connect, press Go live on Instagram as well. Two buttons: ours sends the stream, theirs publishes it.
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🎬 Clips from any video
Upload a video and we read it, find the moments worth
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talking. It does not have to be recorded here: a webinar, a stream, an interview, a
lecture, anything you have the rights to.
We keep uploads and the clips we make from them
for 7 days, so download what you want to keep.
Make a clip…
Describe a shot and we generate it: cutaways, openers,
product shots, announcements. Silent by default, because these usually play under your own
voice. Tick With sound if this one should have its own.
This is an 8-second clip made here. Every clip you make is saved to Your media, and
Use in editor drops it straight onto the B-roll lane.
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Thumbnails, cover art, ads, product photos, posters
and logos. You get 3 a day free; past that they come out of your credits.
Made here in a few seconds. 3 a day are free. Start with a thumbnail
or cover art and change the highlighted words.
Brand
Set this once. Your logo, colour and name chips are remembered and applied to
every recording and live show, and to what your guests and the app see.
You can still tweak it mid-show from the 🎨 Brand button in the control bar.
🎛 Your show's defaults
Set these once and every episode after it starts here: the caption look, the cover
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Plays over the top of every show you start. Change it any time: it applies from the next recording.
Up to 30 seconds. We trim, fade and level it so it sits right against your voice, saved to your account, so you only do this once.
Hosting
💰 Sponsor desk
We read your own episodes and work out what your show is really about, which
kinds of business would actually sponsor it, and the message to send them.
It will tell you if you are not ready to ask for money yet: that answer is
worth more than a rate card you cannot back up.
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Turn an episode into something people
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Your show's page on Bright Side, the photos every cover is cut from, and
whether we may sell ads on it.
Saved
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Chill SpotIN EVERY PLAN
Hang out on video. Nothing is recorded.
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Everyone in the room is asked. Anyone can say Not now, and the host sees who is still deciding.
When every person says OK, it records like any show and lands in your Library, ready to edit and publish.
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What is in the room
My code
Your join code lives here
Sign in and you get a five-letter code of your own. Guests type it in the app, or at this address on any computer, and land in your studio.
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Guests join with this code, from the app (Studio → Live → Join with code) or any computer at this address.
Up to 8 at once. Separate them with commas. They each get the
same code and their own one-tap link.
👥 Your team
🔌 Connect Claude or ChatGPT
Drive this studio from a chat: "what did I record this week", "put the
AFC North show in its frame", "explain what we mentioned". It can list your shows, read where something was
said, and make edits. The same edits the buttons here make.
Send it as an Authorization: Bearer header. It is this
browser's sign-in, so it stops working when you sign out, and anyone holding it can act as you. It lasts up to
180 days.
Not every chat app can add a custom server yet, and the ones
that can ask for it in different places. If yours does not offer it, this address will still be here when it does.
🎬 Let's set up your studio
🎥 Recording quality
Resolution
Frame rate
🔆 Screen glowoff
Applies to what your guests and the recording see, not just your preview. A set, blur, a Look and the light all run together.
🩺 Before you start
🩺 20-second check
🔊 Can you hear this?
Guests join with code
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⏳ Waiting for the host to open the room. You'll be brought in automatically. You can leave this window open.
Entering ≠ broadcasting. You land in a private green room. Nothing records or goes live until you press 🎬 Start the show.
⏹ Stop this take
This take saves to your Library and a new one starts straight away.
Nobody leaves the room: same guests, same set, same levels.
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Publish saves it to your Library: the video, transcript, show notes and clips, yours to download and post anywhere. Most episodes are ready within 30 minutes of the show ending; long ones take a little longer. Trash deletes everything, for when you want a fresh start.
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Scheduled shows appear on your phone's Plan tab too. Invite guests from there.
✂️ Trim this episode
Click the line where the show should start, then the line where it should end.
Start: 0:00End: the end
The video is re-cut and the chapters, captions, clips, subtitles and thumbnails are rebuilt to match. Your followers aren't notified again.
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Mirror my preview (only you see this flipped)
A second angle of you. A 🎥 button appears on your tile to cut between them, or let the director do it.
Scan a QR code with your phone: it joins as a second angle of you, video only, recorded on the phone in full quality.
Music mode For singing and instruments: stereo, with no voice processing. Use headphones so the mic does not pick up the speakers.
Echo cancellation
Noise suppression
🎚 Auto level: hold everyone at the same loudness Ride a shout down and a whisper up, slowly, so nobody has to fix the mic mid-show.
Chrome auto-gain Off is better with a real mic. It fights our leveler. Turn on for a laptop mic in a noisy room.
🎚 Auto-level mic: keeps every voice smooth & even
Audio hygiene applies when you enter the studio (device switches apply instantly). Captions caption YOUR mic: each guest on a computer can turn on their own.
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10 is the sweet spot. Higher values make the edge around you soft enough that it can read as the whole picture being blurred.
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Effects work once you're in the studio with your camera on.
🎬 Recording starts when you press Start the show: green-room prep is never recorded.
🔲 The layout you pick (grid / speaker / solo) rides straight into the recording.
✂️ Tap "Clip this moment" during the show. The AI cuts shareable clips there when the episode publishes.
⏱ Episodes publish with transcript, show notes and chapters. The full polish can take up to 24 hours.
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Camera on / offC
Hotkeys are ignored while you're typing in a text box.
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🎧 TalkbackOnly they hear you. Everyone on air means the people on air and the producers, never backstage or a caller holding: pick them by name. Never recorded, streamed or captioned. Your mic is off the show while you hold (Space and M wait until you let go). Or hold T.
⏱ Segment clockEveryone in the room sees the time left in each segment and to the hard out. The recording shows it only if you tick the box.
10 seconds of quiet, please
We are recording the sound of your room, so every cut in the edit sounds seamless.
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Anything sent while they're off is dropped. It can't be staged later.
Click a message to put it ON STAGE ✨ · 📱 join your own room from the app to carry chat in your pocket
📡 Stream: where this show goes out
⚙️ Quick settings
Recording quality
Noise reduction
Echo cancellation
Auto level my voice
On screen
🎵 Music
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Keys 1 to 9 play a track · 0 stops · Shift+number fires a stinger · everyone hears it, recording included
🏈 Scoreboard
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Edits go on screen as you type, once it's up. ⚠️ The score is burned into the recording. A wrong number can't be taken out afterwards.
📋 Show column
Column on screen
Logo in the column
Shows on the right of the picture and in the recording while it is on. ⚠️ Like every graphic it is part of the video for good once it is up.
📢 Screen text
Default for new banners: change any single one from its ⋯ menu.
Needs live captions on: that's where the words come from.
Show = on stage · banners roll by default. Tap one live to pause it
🔥 Hot Topics: tap one to flash it on stage
Backdrops
Where does this go?
Replaces the room behind you, through the camera cut-out. Each guest sets their own.
One click puts every computer guest on the same set (cameras get the background baked in, phones & the recording see it too).
Left trims a white outline off you: most webcams add one by sharpening against a bright wall, and it travels onto the backdrop. Right gives hair back if the cut clips it.
Checking video…
Reads the actual pixels along your outline and says which of three
things it is: the mask being too big, alpha blending, or your camera sharpening a halo into the
picture before we ever see it. Only the first two are ours to fix.
🎬 Your own stage art
Our sets are in the grid above: flip Where does this go?
to The stage and pick one. This is for art of your own.
Ready-madePresent on stage
33%
Intro / outro clips: present a video right before or after the show · Overlay mode: drag it anywhere: the recording matches
🧩 Extras
Point OBS (or any encoder) at:
Server:
Stream key: Hit "Start Streaming" in OBS. It walks in as a guest. Stage it from 👥 People.
🎨 Style: your brand kit
This is your account's brand: your live
room and everything you record. To change how this episode renders, use
🎨 Design.
Colour & names
Theme preset
Start from a curated look: colour, font, name chips and lower thirds together.
Change any of it below afterwards.
Show names
@handle under names
Reactions in the room
⚠️ Anything on screen (your logo, titles, banners, stickers) is
part of the video for good and can't be taken off later.
Captions are off the recording by default now: they show to
the room, and subtitles for the finished video come from the editor,
where they stay removable.
Want a copy without it? Every show also saves
raw camera files: each person straight off their own camera, no
graphics at all. They're in your Library under 💾.
🎚 Split-track stems (per guest)
Banner colours
Marks
Logo
Every logo you upload or draw is kept here. Tap one to use it, ✕ to forget it.
5.5%
Drag to size it: this is the real proportion on a 16:9 video.
Second mark
Optional: a sponsor, a network, or a co-host's logo. It sits in its own corner.
5.5%
Both marks show in the frame above, so you can see them together.
Sponsor read
One tap on 💰 Sponsor in the live bar, mid-show: the lower third names the sponsor (the second mark is its picture), the read scrolls on your prompter, and a clip mark lands at that second so the cutter cuts the sponsor's own clip.
Edge
▢ A border around every person
Shows on your stage, in the recording and in the finished file. The same border in all three.
▦ Fill the frame around everyone
Like a broadcast set: the colour sits behind everyone and shows
through the gaps, so the dividers and the outside edge match.
Overlay
🖼 Overlay across the whole frame
A transparent PNG that sits over the picture: a border, a SUBSCRIBE bar,
a scoreline. It goes UNDER captions and banners, so it can never cover your words.
Stickers
Tap one to pop it on screen. It sits where you choose and
leaves by itself, and always under your captions and banners.
Font
How your text looks
✓ Saved as you go: every change above is already live on the phones and the recording.
✓ Saved as you go: this is your account's kit, so it applies to your live room
and everything you record from now on.
Logo
Stickers
Marks
Overlay
🗒️ My notes (only you see this)
👥 Your own audience
Callers
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Say it on air with your join code. Callers hear that the show is recorded, key the code, and land here.
Call a guest
Rings their phone like a real call, even locked. Free, full sound,
and video if they want it. They arrive looking like a guest, not a caller.
Their screen tells them the show is recorded before they answer.
They need our phone app installed.
Send them the link from your own phone or computer, in a text, an email, anything. They tap it,
their browser opens, and they are on full video like any other guest, recorded properly,
no app to install, any phone. The best door for somebody who is not on Bright Side Streams.
Any phone on earth, no app and nothing to install. Costs a couple of cents
a minute and they arrive as audio only, at phone quality. They hear
the recording notice and press 1 to join.
Waiting to come on
Texts
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Say it on air: Start your text with your join code. Anyone can text this number and it lands here, no app, no sign-in. The code finds your show however many others are live.
What the audience said
👥 People
In the room
📣 My crew: saved for every show
One tap = an invite + push to everyone · click a chip to remove someone
Click a guest to bring them on air / send backstage
🔒 Private chat: host & guests only
The audience never sees this. Plan the show mid-show
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