Zoom announced on Wednesday that it’s making it simpler to livestream your assembly or webinar to Twitch by including native integration with the streaming service to its app. After you join your Zoom and Twitch accounts, you may start broadcasting your meeting with only a few clicks.

Zoom says the function is supposed to “streamline the process of sharing content within” communities, which undoubtedly sounds prefer it expects this for use for issues like firm webinars. There are a whole lot of use instances I can consider for this sort of factor, although — it’d be a straightforward possibility for individuals who need to do a reside podcast, share a sermon, or make one thing like a city corridor assembly publicly out there. Or heck, simply stream your 8AM stand-up in case you’re actually enthusiastic about sharing what you’re engaged on with the world (although you’d in all probability need to verify firm coverage to be sure that’s okay).

To be clear, it’s not prefer it was not possible to stream a Zoom assembly to Twitch earlier than. Zoom helps streaming to different platforms like Facebook and YouTube and would allow you to add a customized streaming service — so technically, you can’ve streamed to Twitch by including your streaming URL and key. You may’ve additionally arrange OBS and used it to stream a gathering, however each of these choices would’ve been extra advanced than the brand new course of, which simply includes clicking a “Live on Twitch” button and logging into the service.