In this video, I walk you through the use of a livestream tool called Restream that can be repurposed as a Zoom backup for virtual meetings.
It comes with a ton of features to arrange your video layout with multiple guests and screen shares. You also don’t have to learn OBS to apply videos, backgrounds to look like a PRO.
Yet the best news of all is that Restream has a 100% free version you can download and use right away. And it doesn’t have meeting time limit such as Zoom (free version comes with 40 mins for group meetings), and Google Meet (free version comes with 1-hr for group meetings).
The downside is that Restream currently can host up to 6 guests (free version) and 10 guests (paid version). Therefore Restream is NOT a good option for large meetings but it works really well for small ones.
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Fei WuFei Wu is the founder and CEO of Feisworld Media, a Massachusetts-based digital media company helping brands get discovered by people and by AI. An Adobe Global Ambassador and brand partner to ElevenLabs, Synthesia, and 50+ other tech and AI companies, she hosts the Feisworld Podcast (400+ episodes, 500K+ downloads — guests have included Seth Godin, Steve Wozniak, Chris Voss, and Arianna Huffington) and co-created the documentary Feisworld: Live Your Art on Amazon Prime. Fei writes for CNET, Lifehacker, and PCMag, and her work has been featured in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and WIRED. She has been publishing on the internet since 2014 — long before AI discoverability had a name.
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