This year our mission was clear: empower every creator—from solo streamers to enterprise teams—with the tools they need to produce professional, reliable, and engaging broadcasts. Driven by your valuable feedback, we've introduced exciting features that enhance your streaming experience and simplify your workflow.

Here's a recap of our key improvements this year:

📹 Streaming Management Made Simple

• Kick Integration: Stream directly to Kick, with full Studio management capabilities at your fingertips.
• Brightcove Integration: Enterprise users can now effortlessly connect StreamYard to their existing video infrastructure, streamlining high-quality broadcasts.
• TikTok RTMP: Creators, you asked—we delivered. While we wait for direct API access, you can now easily broadcast to TikTok via RTMP.
• On-Stage Image Sharing: Seamlessly upload and display images mid-stream to enrich your content.
• Resolution Indicator: Always stream with confidence, thanks to our new Resolution Indicator that clearly displays your current Studio settings.

🎥 Crystal-Clear Video & Audio

• Local Recordings on iOS: Capture stunning, device-quality video recordings directly from your iOS device—perfect for creators on the go.
• Improved Video Sharing & Optimized Quality: We boosted video and audio quality across the platform for a smoother streaming experience.

🎨 Boosting Engagement & Interactivity

• Chat Overlay: Transform live audience interaction by displaying comments from all connected platforms directly in your broadcasts.
• Enhanced Studio Chat & New People Tab: Managing multi-guest productions is now easier and more intuitive, with dedicated spaces to oversee participants and audio levels in real-time.

🎨 Effortless Branding & Customization

• Redesigned Brand Tab: Organizing your brand assets has never been simpler—enjoy the new intuitive grid layout, drag-and-drop reordering, cross-device syncing, batch uploads, and easy brand duplication.

💻 Frictionless User Experience

• Streamlined Studio Control Bar: Quickly switch microphones, cameras, or speakers with our revamped control bar—clearer, cleaner, and easier to use.
• Optimized Mobile UI: Mobile streamers, enjoy icon-based Studio tabs for maximum screen efficiency, plus expanded browser compatibility across major mobile apps.
• Collapsible Sidebar: Keep distractions at bay by easily collapsing the sidebar, putting the focus exactly where it should be—on your content.

Your feedback has guided every improvement we've made. And we're just getting started—expect even more innovations designed around you in the following months. We have big plans in store for Scenes, AI Clips, video/audio quality and much more!

Want to master these features? Explore our quick tutorials and tips on our YouTube channel or join the conversation in our vibrant Facebook community.

Here’s to everything we’ve achieved so far—and all the unforgettable broadcasts still to come in 2025! 🎉

We've enhanced Scenes with a new folder system that makes managing your content easier than ever: create custom folders to organize scenes by topic, event type, or any other way that works for you.

Now you can keep your growing collection of scenes perfectly organized, so you spend less time searching for the right layout and more time creating great content.

📍 Available for all plans.

We've re-organized our studio settings to make visual effects easier to find. The Enhance skin appearance feature (previously “Touch up my appearance”)—which applies a subtle AI-powered filter to smooth your skin—has moved from Camera settings to the Visual effects section.

Everything works exactly the same—it's just easier to find when you need it.

We’ve also added a slider to the Blur effect so that you can control how blurred your backgrounds will appear.

We've revamped in-studio notifications to make sure you're always aware of important updates during your broadcast and can seamlessly manage your guests.

Here's what's new:

• Guest entry notifications that pop up whenever someone enters your studio or joins the greenroom, with actions buttons to add them to the stage or let them in
• A refreshed mic muted alert with a cleaner design and an easy dismiss option
• Full control over notifications via a new toggle in settings—turn studio notifications on or off based on your preference

All notifications are automatically dismissed after 5 seconds and are only visible to you as the host, keeping your audience’s experience unchanged. Try it out during your next live session and let us know what you think!

📍 Available on all plans.

We've added a new option in Studio settings that lets you control when the resolution indicator appears on your stage.

By default, the setting is disabled to keep your stage focused purely on your content. Looking to monitor your broadcast quality? Simply enable the setting and a resolution indicator will display your current camera resolution in the top-left corner of the stage.

Perfect for creators who want full control: Your preference is automatically saved across all studio sessions, giving you consistent control over your stage appearance.

Look for it in your General Studio settings!

Create custom vertical layouts (9:16 aspect ratio) for platforms like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube!

Here's what's new:

• Broadcasts using a portrait orientation include full custom layout capabilities
• All default layouts (Solo, Group, Leader, Cinema, and more) are optimized for 9:16 aspect ratio streams
• Seamless switching between portrait and landscape orientation, with layouts that adapt automatically

Now you can create polished, custom layouts whether you're streaming landscape or portrait for complete creative control for any platform or audience.

We've refreshed the studio sidebar to give you more control over your streaming workspace and help you stay focused on what matters most.

Here's what's new:

• Cleaner visual design with improved icon hierarchy in the sidebar tabs
• Collapsible right sidebar that you can now explicitly close for a distraction-free experience
• Complete workspace control - close both the left Scenes sidebar and right sidebar to get an uncluttered view of your stage and backstage

Now you can quickly hide distractions when you need to focus entirely on your stream, then bring the panels back when you need to access the Studio’s powerful tools and settings. Together with the Scenes sidebar, you can hide both panels when you need to focus entirely on your stream, then bring them back when you need the Studio’s powerful tools.

We've added new drag and drop capabilities to the Media assets tab, making it easier than ever to organize your logos, overlays, clips, backgrounds, and music exactly how you want them.

Here's what's new:

• Intuitive drag and drop reordering for all your brand assets
• Cross-device support—your preferences sync across desktop and mobile

Now you can organize your assets in the perfect order for each brand in your account, without the hassle of deleting and re-uploading files.

Whether you're managing multiple overlays or setting up different backgrounds for show segments, everything stays exactly where you put it.

📌 Available on all plans.

StreamYard now lets you broadcast straight to Brightcove, bringing studio-quality live video to your corporate video hub with just a few clicks.

Available for everyone.

We’ve improved the quality for videos shared while live streaming: under-the-hood optimizations now deliver higher-fidelity visuals when sharing your video content.

This is just the first improvement of our ongoing effort to level up stream quality and make sure what your audience sees and hears is just as detailed and rich as what you're seeing.

More is on the way, so stay tuned!