22 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
Kick needs two values from you rather than one. Because it runs on Amazon IVS, the ingest endpoint belongs to your channel instead of being an address everyone shares.
Open your Kick creator dashboard and go to Settings, then Stream.
Copy the stream URL - the ingest endpoint. Take it exactly, including the port and the trailing path.
Copy the stream key from the same screen.
Paste both into your Loopcast stream and save.
On YouTube every broadcaster pushes to the same primary ingest address, so it can be prefilled. Kick is built on Amazon IVS, which allocates endpoints per channel. Two Kick streamers do not share an ingest URL, and there is no way to derive yours from your channel name. It has to be copied.
The upside is that the pair stays stable. Copy them once and a restart weeks later reconnects without you touching anything.
Check the URL survived the copy intact - the port number at the end is easy to clip.
Confirm you took the key from the same screen as the URL, not from an older session.
Make sure nothing else is streaming to the channel. One key, one encoder.
Treat the stream key like a password. Anyone holding it can broadcast to your channel. Loopcast stores it encrypted and never displays it back to you.
Upload a video, paste your stream key, hit start. From $0.72/day.
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