In this video, I'm going to show you how to get live streaming set up for your own
tribe social node.
So if you have your own server running, either with DigitalOcean or Heroku, this is going
to apply to you.
And there's just one extra step we need you to take in order to get live streaming working
with your tribe install.
So to get this set up, you're going to go over to a website called livepeer.com.
And I'm going to put a link to this in the description below.
And this is the service that's sitting under the hood that's going to run all of our live
streaming.
So we have a general tribe social account with us and anyone who's on our server is
running through our account.
But because you own your own node, we actually just give you this give direct access to this.
So you're just paying the raw costs.
Whatever the service is charging, you'll just pay that there's no markup.
It's just a nice clean relationship.
So the good thing about this is that if you don't use this for a little bit, you actually
won't pay anything.
Your bill will be $0.
So it's just when you do stream, there will be some costs involved and it is a variable
cost.
So for some of you, if you're doing a huge event where you're having 500 people show
up for a few hours, that'll increase your costs.
But if you're just doing regular coaching or just doing a couple streams here and there,
it's going to be a couple dollars a month.
It's very, very affordable.
Part of why we're using Livepeer is that it is the most affordable way to live stream
on the internet.
And there's people paying five cents, a couple cents per minute, per person that is watching
your stream.
And they're actually about less than half a cent to do this.
So it's well, well, well below the cost.
If you're wondering, is there a cheaper way?
There is not.
We did all the research for you.
It's going to be integrated with Livepeer and this is the way to go.
So I'll jump into the pricing here just to give you a sense of what that cost is.
Again, your first thousand minutes are going to be free and then you're paying half a cent
per minute of video that comes in.
So to make that actually make sense, I'll scroll down here to this little pricing calculator.
Let me move myself over to this side.
And so let's say you have, maybe you're doing, you know, your average session is maybe going
to be, you know, two hours and you're doing, you know, two streams a week, so maybe eight
a month.
And generally you're going to have, you know, 20 people or so show up.
So you're looking at about $8.92 for the whole month to cover this cost.
Alternatively, if you have a two hour session and you're doing a challenge, and let's say
you have, you know, 200 people show up, that could just be $46.
And of course it does scale.
So if you do an event with 2,000, you know, you're going to spend this, but if you're
doing an event with 2,000, odds are that you've either charged tickets or there's other revenue
that's going to cover this.
So it does scale up and down very nicely with your business.
So you're not, you know, like I said, you pay for what you use.
If you don't use it at all, then you're going to, it's going to be very, very cheap.
So that is the kind of how the pricing is structured.
What we'll need you to do is once you create your account, you can either share your login
with us.
You can just email help at tribesocial.io and just share that login and we'll go in and
connect it for you.
Or if you prefer, you can go into your dashboard, go over to the developers column right here
and go to the very top right and click create key.
We'll create a key and we'll just name it Tribe Social, you know, streaming or something.
Hit create, and that will give you a unique key, which you can copy and then send over
to us.
So that will be all we need to get it connected to your server and that's pretty much it.
You won't really need to sign back into Livepeer for anything.
You can manage it, you know, pretty much through your Tribe Social dashboard, but you just
have that option that it is an extra service.
You can, you know, you can get to it and see all your previous streams or your stream
key or whatever other information.
It's all going to be in that dashboard.
So if you have any questions about anything I talked about, just email help at tribesocial.io.
Be happy to help you out.
So we'll talk soon.