- If you're considering making the switch,
I'm gonna tell you 10 reasons
why Streamlabs OBS is better than OBS
and we're starting right now.
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Okay, so I partnered up with Streamlabs OBS
to make this video because it's important
that you should know it's time to make the switch.
So I'm gonna tell you 10 obvious reasons
that going with Streamlabs OBS is way better
than the old school OBS.
Number one on the list is Streamlabs Auto Setup.
They have a wizard that takes you
through the process of setting everything up
because if you've used OBS in the past
or you are thinking of using OBS,
it's a cumbersome process and if you are
just getting into live streaming
and you're just getting into using encoding software,
there are some things that you might not even know
what they mean so it's really important
to use a wizard like this
to get some nice default settings for you to make sure
that your stream is gonna come through okay.
To come to the conclusion for the best setup for you,
they're looking at what platform you're connected to,
they're looking at your computer speed,
they're looking at your internet speed,
all of it so that you can make sure
that you're pushing through the best quality stream possible
and OBS just doesn't offer that.
And as a bonus in part of that setup process,
they even walk you through setting up
some of the additional features
that I'm gonna be talking about on this list
that OBS also doesn't have.
Number two, they have a lower CPU usage.
Basically if you are in Streamlabs OBS
and you go to the Live tab,
then it shrinks down everything and organizes everything
so all of your alerts and everything
are right there in front of you
but it's less taxing on your computer
which is an even bigger bonus and OBS just doesn't have it.
Number three is themes.
Look, if you want a cool looking live stream,
it's important that you have the right graphics
and all that stuff to support your live stream.
Inside of Streamlabs OBS, they give you free themes
that you can use on any of your live streams.
Next up number four is the Streamlabs widgets.
Now look, inside of OBS you have to go through
all of these processes in order to get anything to work
and what widgets are just in case you don't know
are having things come up on your screen.
For example, if you wanted to have chat
coming up over on the side of your screen,
you would use a widget for that
instead of having to hard-code it into OBS.
Inside of Streamlabs OBS, you just click the items
that you're wanting to add to your stream
and it's gonna pull 'em in there for you
where you don't have to go through this cumbersome process
of setting everything up.
Another one is the notifications
where if somebody subscribes to your channel,
they give you a tip or anything like that,
then a notice pops up on your screen
to give that person some recognition
and that also brings it to your attention
to where you can say hey whatever your name is,
thank you for subscribing or thank you for the donation.
Big plus for community engagement
and big plus for ease of use.
Number five is cloud backups.
Look you're not getting cloud backups with OBS.
Streamlabs OBS has you covered.
So what cloud backups are is let's say
that you have your stream set up at your place,
you got everything perfect exactly how you want it
and you go to a friend's house
but you don't take your computer.
All you have to do once you're at your friend's house
is log into your Streamlabs OBS account
and it's gonna pull everything down from the cloud,
all your graphics and everything
and it's gonna be just like you're streaming from home
but you're gonna be at a friend's house,
so you don't have to rebuild stuff all the time
which is amazing and this is also great
if your computer crashes or your computer dies
or if one of your family members
or somebody accidentally removes your software,
no problem, it's all in the cloud, they've got you covered.
Another thing that is unique to Streamlabs
is the affiliate program.
If you recommend somebody OBS and they go install OBS,
then you know, you're not gonna get anything for that
but if you recommend Streamlabs to somebody
and they go and they install it
and then they get some of the pro features, guess what?
Guess who's gonna make some money for it?
You are, that's who!
And speaking of making money, you like making money, right?
Next up on the list is their merch store.
So if you have merchandise that you want to sell,
T-shirts and stuff, you can do that
through Streamlabs as well and OBS just, sorry OBS,
but the option just isn't there.
Another thing that makes a huge difference in the two
is they have a dashboard with a bunch of stuff built into it
so you have direct access to your widgets,
you have direct access to your merch store,
you have direct access to all of your settings
inside of Streamlabs
and stuff for the actual software itself
and in that same area, you can also see recent activity
in terms of people that have subscribed to you
and things like that as well.
It's awesome.
And OBS just doesn't have it.
Next up is support and community.
This one in my opinion, this alone
is worth the switch and I'll tell you why.
If you have a problem with OBS,
you have to hop into the forums
and you gotta get all this feedback from people
that may or may not know what they're talking about
but with Streamlabs OBS, you have the people
that are actually working on the software
that you can reach out to that can solve your problems
or help you solve your problems
to where you're not just taking advice from people
that don't really know what they're talking about
or maybe they do but you are not running that risk.
And that is because it's supported by these folks.
And another really cool feature,
if you are going to be making the switch.
If you're saying, hey Nick all of this stuff sounds great,
I think I'm gonna be making the switch
over to Streamlabs OBS.
Another really awesome feature is they have integration
which basically means that all of the stuff
that you have set up inside of OBS,
when you're setting up Streamlabs OBS
and you're going through that wizard
that we were talking about before
to help you set everything up,
they're actually gonna pull in your settings from OBS
so that you don't have to reset up
everything you've already set up for your OBS.
Really it's a no-brainer.
I've got a link to Streamlabs OBS
down in the description below
where you can head over and try it out for yourself.
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