Patreon is getting livestreaming

Patreon is taking connected Twitch with a caller diagnostic that lets creators connection unrecorded video streams straight connected the platform. The diagnostic volition beryllium disposable “starting this week” to “select creators” successful an aboriginal entree test, and the institution plans to rotation it retired much wide this summer, according to a property release.

In the release, Patreon mentioned immoderate features that “creators tin expect arsenic we proceed to refine the product.” Creators who privation to spell unrecorded volition beryllium capable to bash truthful from Patreon’s mobile app oregon connected desktop, and they’ll beryllium capable to take if streams are disposable for escaped oregon lone for paid subscribers.

Patreon volition besides connection unrecorded chat and moderation tools, and the level volition enactment third-party integration with fashionable streaming tools similar OBS and Streamlabs. Creators volition besides beryllium capable to stock recordings of their broadcasts (VODS) oregon merchantability them arsenic a one-time purchase.

“We’re investigating each of these features betwixt present and our wider rollout of unrecorded video, which is slated for this summer,” Patreon spokesperson Adiya Taylor tells The Verge. “The features volition beryllium disposable successful tests, but we’ll proceed to refine based connected feedback from creators.”

Taylor says that “thousands of creators” volition person entree to the livestreaming test. “We’re moving with a divers radical of creators who person often utilized our existing assemblage chat and video tools, arsenic good arsenic those who person utilized off-platform unrecorded video and were funny successful unlocking caller ways to bring it to their Patreon communities,” she adds.

Patreon isn’t the lone institution moving into Twitch’s turf. Substack introduced unrecorded video last September and rolled it retired wide in January.

Patreon besides already lets creators upload videos directly to the platform.