Your YouTube channel,
live around the clock.

A live stream lives in different places on YouTube than a normal upload. It carries the red LIVE badge, it sits in the Live tab on your channel, and viewers can chat with each other while they watch. A 24/7 loop live stream keeps that presence switched on all day and all night, using videos you have already made.

That is why so many background-listening channels run this way. When people leave a stream playing while they study, sleep or work, a loop is not a problem. It is the point. Common examples include:

• Lofi, jazz and focus music radios
• Rain, ocean, fireplace and white noise for sleep
• Meditation and calm ambience
• Church services, bhajans, kirtan and Quran recitation replays
• Podcast and talk show reruns
• Nature cams, scenic drives and slow TV
• Menu boards and product loops for shops and cafes

A loop stream also gives an existing video library a second life. A long mix that gets a few views as an upload can keep an audience company around the clock as a live broadcast.

Behind the scenes, a live stream is a video signal sent to YouTube over RTMP, the same protocol OBS Studio and hardware encoders use. YouTube identifies your channel by the stream key you copy from YouTube Studio. LoopStream Live encodes your video on a cloud server, sends it to YouTube with that key, and starts it again the moment it ends, so viewers see one unbroken broadcast instead of a stream that stops and restarts.

If you add several videos, they play in order as a playlist and then start over from the first one. If YouTube drops the connection, which happens to every stream that runs for days, StreamLoop Live reconnects on its own and resumes from the point the video had reached rather than jumping back to 0:00. You can also schedule a stream to start and stop at set times, once or every day.

The free plan streams at 720p with a small watermark and a daily time limit. Weekly plans, opening at launch, remove the daily limit and the watermark. For the full setup in YouTube Studio, read our step-by-step guide to looping a video on YouTube Live.

Most YouTube live stream apps stream whatever your phone's camera sees, which means the phone has to stay on, awake and connected for the whole broadcast. LoopStream Live works the other way around. Your phone is only the remote control. You choose the video and the channel, tap Go Live, and the stream itself runs on our servers.

That changes what live streaming from a phone costs you. There is no battery drain while you are live, no heat, and no mobile data used once the video is in. You don't even need to upload big files over mobile data: paste a Google Drive or Dropbox share link and the video is copied to our servers directly.

The Android app is coming soon. Today, the same dashboard works in any phone or desktop browser, including Safari on iPhone.

You can loop a video with free software, but every do-it-yourself route ties the stream to a machine you have to look after.

• OBS Studio on your computer: free to install, but the computer must stay on, awake and online around the clock, and a Windows update or a Wi-Fi drop at 3 AM ends the stream.
• A rented VPS running FFmpeg: no home computer needed, but you set up the server, write the loop command and restart it yourself when it fails.
• Other cloud loop services, such as Streamloop: these also stream from the cloud, so compare them on how you pay, whether there is a free plan to test with, and whether the stream resumes where it left off after a drop.
• LoopStream Live: no software and no server to manage. Add a video, paste your stream key, go live. It reconnects and resumes on its own, has a free plan, and is paid by the week with no subscription.

If you searched for Streamloop and landed here, note that LoopStream Live is a separate, independent service. The idea is the same, a pre-recorded video running as a 24/7 live stream from the cloud, so it is worth trying both on the free plan and keeping the one that suits your channel.

If you already run OBS for live gaming or camera streams, keep it for that. A loop stream is a different job: the same file, on repeat, for days or weeks, which is exactly the kind of work a cloud service handles better than a home computer.

• A YouTube channel with live streaming turned on. The first time, YouTube asks you to verify a phone number and activation can take up to 24 hours.
• A video you own or are licensed to use. MP4 files with H.264 video and AAC audio work best, at 720p or 1080p and a steady 30 frames per second.
• Your stream key, from YouTube Studio under Create, then Go live, then the Stream tab.
• A free LoopStream Live account. No card is needed to start.

Facebook Live, Twitch, Kick and any custom RTMP server work the same way: paste that platform's server address and stream key instead of YouTube's.

Pricing is simple. Start on the free plan to test the stream on your own channel. When you want it live around the clock, buy a weekly plan: seven days at a time, no subscription and no auto-renew, so you only pay for the weeks you stream. The first 500 accounts keep the launch price for life.

• Make the playlist at least an hour long so regular viewers don't see the same clip every visit.
• Add a short fade at the start and end of each video so the loop point is smooth.
• Put what the stream is and 24/7 in the title, for example "Rain sounds for sleep, 24/7", and use a clear thumbnail.
• Say in the description that the stream is a looped recording. Honest titles keep viewers and keep you within YouTube's rules on misleading content.
• Only stream music and video you have the rights to. YouTube's Content ID checks live streams too.
• Check the stream health panel in YouTube Studio once after going live. It should read Excellent or Good.