New features and improvements across 24/7 and pre-recorded live streams, trivia, polls and giveaways, Live Studio, playlists and the API.
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During a YouTube ad break, viewers who get no ad, such as YouTube Premium members, see a placeholder video while your main video pauses. You can now pick up to 40 placeholders in the Ad Slots Manager of a video playlist. One plays per break, in your order or shuffled, so these viewers do not see the same video every time.
Learn more in the Help CenterWhen you upload a large video from your computer to your file library and your internet connection drops, the upload no longer starts over. Choose the same file again and it continues from where it stopped.
Ask ChatGPT to loop your videos as a 24/7 live stream, schedule a recorded video, change the playlist while you are live, or check how a stream is doing. The plugin is included in every paid plan.
See the ChatGPT pluginA video playlist now skips a damaged video and plays the next one instead of getting stuck. Vertical videos imported from YouTube arrive in full 1080x1920, and iPhone videos with spatial audio and 8 to 10 hour YouTube videos now import too. The Web Page layer accepts long widget links, such as Streamlabs alert links.
Developers can now soft or hard restart a live stream through the API. Another call shows which video your playlist is playing on air right now, when it started and what plays next.
Read the API docsIf your live stream looks stuck or frozen, open the menu on the End Stream button and choose Soft restart. The stream reloads in a few seconds and stays live with the same link. Viewers see a short pause, and your playlist continues from where it was.
Connect ChatGPT or Claude by signing in to your LiveReacting account, or add LiveReacting to an AI coding agent such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Gemini CLI with an API key. Then ask in plain words: import these videos, build a playlist, schedule or start a stream, check how it is doing. Included in every paid plan.
Set up an AI agentDevelopers can now upload a file from their own code straight into the LiveReacting file library, or import a video, audio or image file from any public direct link to that file. The same file size limits apply as for uploads in Studio.
See the API pageEvery paid plan now includes the API, so you can run LiveReacting from your own code. Create a key on the Developer page in Studio. If your YouTube channel is monetized, open YouTube analytics from your list of past broadcasts to see views, watch time, impressions, revenue and CPM for each stream, or download them as a CSV file.
See pricingFile imports from YouTube, Google Drive and Dropbox now finish reliably. YouTube ad breaks go out more consistently. Your camera recovers on its own after a network drop or an unstable connection.
Manage a long audio playlist in one place. Search it, sort it, drag tracks into order, preview them, rename them, move or remove several at once, and import or export the whole list. The same track can now appear more than once.
Learn more in the Help CenterBuild your question set in a spreadsheet and load it into Crossword or Closest Guess, the way Trivia already works. Export it to edit elsewhere. The built-in question bank is bigger, and a question no longer repeats within one game.
A video imported from a YouTube link used to be re-encoded, which cost you audio quality. An import that already fits your plan limits now arrives untouched.
Paste a link to a YouTube playlist or channel, see the videos it holds, and tick the ones you want. They import together, each with its own progress, and you can cancel at any point.
Learn more in the Help CenterAdd a layer that moves through your images on a timer, with a crossfade between them. Drag images into order; the slideshow loops, shuffles, and can switch to the next scene when it ends.
Learn more in the Help CenterA ready-made template that pairs an audio playlist with an image slideshow, for music streams that run 24/7. The Winter LoFi Countdown template is back as well.
A project now holds up to 300 scenes, 800 layers, 600 files in one playlist and 7,000 playlist files in total. A project already above a limit keeps working, but cannot grow past it.
One API call renames a whole group of files. The response tells you which renames worked and which did not.
Pick one image to show whenever a track has no cover art of its own. The setting sits beside the cover image size in the audio playlist sidebar.
Learn more in the Help CenterTurn on shuffle and your files play in random order, with a new order on each loop.
Learn more in the Help CenterSteam's weekly maintenance used to end an unlimited-duration stream for good. Those streams now reconnect on their own for up to three hours.
A plan for agencies and broadcasters. Run ad breaks on your YouTube streams, stream to your own destinations, work through the API, and set every limit to your own numbers. Ask for a quote from the pricing page.
See the Custom PlanTurn on the option in Advanced settings and your YouTube replay goes unlisted as soon as the stream finishes. Publish it again from YouTube whenever you like. Facebook does not offer this.
Learn more in the Help CenterMost paid plans can add 4K resolution or 60 FPS. The pricing page shows what each one costs.
See pricingRun LiveReacting from your own code. Create and revoke keys on the Developer page, then work with projects, scenes, layers, files, folders and streaming destinations, and start, stop, schedule or cancel a stream. Each account allows 150 requests a minute.
Read the blog postPick the shape of your stream: landscape, portrait or square. Set the video bitrate for the project too. Portrait suits anything made to be watched on a phone.
Learn more in the Help CenterImport a playlist from a CSV or XLSX file, ad breaks included, and export the current one to edit it elsewhere. A spreadsheet template is included.
Learn more in the Help CenterAdd a layer that moves with the sound of your stream, in bar, wave, line or circular style. Point it at all your audio or at one layer, and set its colors and how strongly it reacts.
Send a channel owner a link and they connect their YouTube channel to your account themselves, with no password to hand over. You stream to it as if it were your own, and the invite page carries your name and logo.
Learn more in the Help CenterTurn on knockout mode and only the players who got the last round right go through to the next one. Everybody plays round one.
Learn more in the Help CenterMark where the ad breaks go in a video, and see them on the progress bar and in the playlist. While a break runs, your stream can show a placeholder video.
Learn more in the Help CenterYouTube Super Chats, Super Stickers, new memberships and gifted memberships now arrive with the rest of your chat. A paid message stands out on the overlay in its own color, with the amount.
Upload many files at once, sort them into folders and find any file by name. Select several to move, rename or delete them together.
Set the YouTube category, mark a stream as made for kids and turn DVR off, all from Advanced settings. You can also add the stream to your YouTube playlists.
Learn more in the Help CenterAdd a layer that plays a list of videos in order. Add videos, drag them into place and shuffle them in its manager.
Learn more in the Help CenterRun more than one live stream at the same time on one 24/7 subscription. Each stream you add brings more storage, and the price per stream drops as you add them.
See pricingPaste a link to a Google Drive folder and every video in it imports in one step. Each file shows its own progress, and you can stop a transfer while it runs.
Learn more in the Help CenterAfter a broadcast, open the results window to see the leaderboard, what happened in each round, and which players answered and how fast.
Learn more in the Help CenterAdd a layer that plays a list of audio files one after another, for background music and long streams that run without you.
Learn more in the Help CenterSome platforms have no live chat, or no way for LiveReacting to read its comments. On those streams, share a link and your viewers pick their answer on a web page with the game controls. The page can show the question and the timer as well.
Learn more in the Help CenterHave a question about one of these changes?
Your AI then builds, schedules and starts your live streams for you.
The LiveReacting plugin opens in ChatGPT. Click Install plugin, then sign in to your LiveReacting account.
Open in ChatGPTCopy this URL. In Claude, open Customize, Connectors, Add custom connector, paste it, then sign in to your LiveReacting account.
https://mcp.livereacting.com/mcp
Copy the setup message and paste it into your agent. The agent sets up the connection for you.
Included in every paid plan. Full setup guide