Guide · 2026-05-24
How to Stream to Twitch, YouTube and Kick at the Same Time
Streaming to one platform means picking one audience. Plenty of viewers on Twitch will never find you on Kick; plenty of YouTube viewers will never open Twitch. Going live on all three at once — multistreaming, or simulcasting — lets the same broadcast reach whoever is watching, wherever they already are.
The catch is that doing it well is not as simple as it first looks. This guide explains the part most tutorials skip — why the obvious approach causes problems — and then walks through a setup that doesn't.
First: is multistreaming even allowed?
Yes. Twitch, YouTube and Kick all permit streaming live to other platforms at the same time. None of the three has a rule against it for ordinary creators. The only common exception is a signed exclusivity contract — the kind some large streamers have agreed to in the past. If you haven't signed one, you are free to be live on all three at once.
The mistake: making OBS do all the work
The instinctive approach is to point your broadcasting software — OBS, or whatever you use — at all three platforms directly and have it send three streams at once.
It can be made to work. But it asks your computer and your internet connection to do three times the work, at the same time, while you are also running a game or whatever else you are streaming:
- Your CPU or GPU encodes the video three times. Encoding is one of
the most demanding things streaming software does. Tripling it is a real load — and on a single PC that is also running your game, the usual result is dropped frames or a lower in-game frame rate.
- Your upload connection carries three streams. A 6,000 kbps stream
is comfortable on most home connections. Three of them at once is 18,000 kbps of sustained upload — enough to saturate a lot of domestic links. When the connection can't keep up, viewers on every platform see buffering and dropped frames.
This is the most common complaint about multistreaming: that it's too hard to set up, or that a normal PC and a normal internet connection simply can't handle it. With this approach, that complaint is fair.
The fix: send one stream, let a relay do the rest
There is a better model, and it is the one professional setups use: your computer sends one stream, to one place, and that place fans it out to every platform for you.
That "one place" is a relay. You stream to the relay exactly as you would stream to a single platform. The relay then forwards your stream on to Twitch, YouTube, Kick — and anywhere else you've configured — from its own server, on its own connection.
The difference this makes:
- Your PC encodes once. One stream out, one encode. No extra CPU or
GPU load, no impact on your game's frame rate, regardless of how many platforms you're live on.
- Your upload carries one stream. You send roughly 6,000 kbps —
one stream's worth — no matter how many destinations receive it. The multiplication happens on the relay's connection, not yours.
- Adding a platform costs you nothing. Streaming to three platforms
is exactly as demanding on your setup as streaming to one. Want to add a fourth later? It's a setting, not a hardware upgrade.
Sleipnir is a relay built to do exactly this — and only this. You send it one stream; it forwards that stream, unchanged, to every destination you've set up. It doesn't re-encode your video, doesn't overlay anything on it, doesn't add a watermark. One stream in, forwarded everywhere you've told it to go.
How to set it up
The whole setup is done once. After that, every stream you start goes to all three platforms automatically — there is nothing to reconfigure each time you go live.
1. Create a Sleipnir account
Sign up at sleipnir.tv. You'll get a dashboard where you add your destinations and find your ingest URL — the address your broadcasting software will stream to.
2. Add your destinations
In the dashboard, add a destination for each platform you want to reach: Twitch, YouTube and Kick. For each one you provide that platform's stream URL and stream key — the same credentials you'd normally paste straight into OBS. You'll find them in each platform's own creator or studio settings:
- Twitch — in your Creator Dashboard, under stream settings.
- YouTube — in YouTube Studio, on the "Go Live" / stream setup page.
- Kick — in your Kick creator dashboard, under stream settings.
Treat every stream key like a password — anyone who has it can stream to your channel. Sleipnir stores them encrypted.
3. Point your encoder at Sleipnir
In OBS (or your encoder of choice), open Settings → Stream. Instead of choosing a single platform, set the server to Sleipnir's ingest URL from your dashboard, and use your Sleipnir stream key.
Sleipnir's ingest is RTMPS — RTMP secured with TLS — so your stream key travels encrypted, not in plain text across the open internet. A plain RTMP fallback is available for older encoders, but RTMPS is the one to use.
4. Use one set of encoder settings for all three
Here's a detail that makes the single-stream approach not just convenient but correct: Twitch, YouTube and Kick all accept the same core stream settings, so one OBS profile satisfies all three at once. You are not compromising any platform by sending a single feed.
A safe, widely-compatible 1080p60 profile:
- Rate control: CBR (constant bitrate). Twitch expects it, Kick
requires it, YouTube accepts it — so CBR is the setting that keeps all three happy.
- Bitrate: around 6,000 kbps. This sits within Twitch's limit for
non-Partner channels, and comfortably within what YouTube and Kick accept — so a single ~6,000 kbps feed is valid everywhere at once.
- Keyframe interval: 2 seconds. All three platforms expect this.
- Encoder: a hardware encoder (such as NVENC on an NVIDIA GPU) if
you have one — it keeps encoding off your CPU.
Because you're sending one stream, you set this once and it's correct for every destination.
5. Go live
Start streaming in OBS as you normally would. Your stream reaches Sleipnir, and Sleipnir forwards it to Twitch, YouTube and Kick at the same time. To your viewers on each platform, it's a normal live stream. To your PC, it's a single stream — the same load as going live on one platform.
The payoff: one chat instead of three
Multistreaming creates one problem of its own: your audience is now split across three chat windows. Miss one and a whole platform's worth of viewers feels ignored.
Sleipnir's combined chat solves this. Connect your Twitch, YouTube and Kick accounts and the dashboard shows every platform's chat in a single live feed — every message, every audience, one window. You can keep up with all three at once instead of alt-tabbing between them and hoping you didn't miss anything.
A note on what happens to your stream
It's worth being clear about what a relay does — and doesn't do — with your broadcast.
Sleipnir is a passthrough relay. It forwards your stream; it does not decode, transcode, or analyse the video and audio you send. There is no step where your stream's content is examined — by design, because forwarding the stream never requires opening it up. Sleipnir processes the technical metadata it needs to run the service (things like stream duration and bitrate) and nothing more.
Alongside that:
- Sleipnir is operated from the UK, with stream processing and data
storage in the EU, under UK and EU data protection law.
- Your stream keys, and the platform credentials you save as
destinations, are encrypted at rest.
- Sleipnir doesn't run advertising or third-party tracking, and doesn't
sell your data. There's no ad network on the page and no analytics cookies.
The full detail is in the Privacy Policy. The short version: Sleipnir's job is to forward your stream, and it's built to do that without looking inside it.
In short
Going live on Twitch, YouTube and Kick at once is allowed, and it's the straightforward way to stop choosing between audiences. The part that trips people up is trying to make one PC encode and upload three streams at once — that's what overloads computers and connections.
Send one stream to a relay instead. Your PC encodes once and uploads once; the relay handles the rest. Add Sleipnir's combined chat and you're not just broadcasting to three audiences — you're actually keeping up with all of them, from one screen.