Run a 24/7 YouTube live stream without leaving a PC on
Upload the video once. We encode it for YouTube Live and keep it looping to your stream key from our datacenter, restarting it if the connection ever drops.
7 days free. No credit card required.
- No credit card to sign up
- Pay as you go
- No subscription, nothing to cancel
Two things to copy across
YouTube gives you a reusable stream key, which is what makes an unattended loop practical: the key does not change between sessions, so a restart reconnects to the same broadcast.
We fill this in for you - YouTube uses one primary ingest endpoint for everybody.
In YouTube Studio, open Go live and copy the key from the Stream tab. Paste it into Loopcast once and you are done.
What YouTube allows, plainly
Looping pre-recorded video as a live stream is allowed on YouTube - it is an established format, and the platform has promoted it. That is not a blank cheque, though, and the limits are worth knowing before you start rather than after a strike.
A full trailer or a long reel is fine. Looping a few seconds of footage over and over is the fastest way to be treated as low-effort repetitive content.
A 24/7 loop is 24/7 exposure for whatever is on the soundtrack. Copyrighted music will mute, demonetise or strike the stream - and it will do it repeatedly.
Do not stage chat or imply someone is present and interacting. A loop that is honestly a loop is fine; one pretending to be a person is not.
If any part of the video is AI-generated, disclose it in the description. That is YouTube’s rule, not ours.
What goes out to YouTube, and what it costs
The numbers worth knowing before you commit, taken straight from the encoder settings and the price list.
H.264 video at a constant 6,000 kbps with a keyframe every 2 seconds, and 128 kbps AAC stereo audio. That is above YouTube's 5 Mbps minimum for 1080p30 (YouTube recommends 14 Mbps), and there is nothing to tune in YouTube Studio.
Upload an MP4, MOV or most other video formats, up to 4 GB each. We encode it to the spec above once, ahead of time, so the loop does not depend on how the original was exported.
$0.72 a day for one stream running 24/7, which is $21.60 over 30 days, and less with the bonus minutes in larger packs. No subscription: minutes are only spent while you are live, and paid minutes never expire.
If the connection to YouTube drops, the stream is relaunched within seconds. If YouTube keeps refusing, we back off and keep retrying every five minutes for a full day, so an outage on their side heals without you.
All Loopcast needs is the stream key. You never sign in to Google through us and we never ask for permission to manage your channel, videos or comments.
Add a second platform to the same stream for 75% of the rate (+$0.54 a day) and a third for half (+$0.36). The encode is made once and shared between them.
The other ways to run a 24/7 YouTube loop
OBS on your own computer works, but the machine has to stay on and online for as long as the stream does, and a Windows update or a router restart ends the broadcast until someone notices.
A rented server running ffmpeg gets the PC out of the picture, but the encoder settings, the restarts and keeping the server patched are then your job.
Loopcast is the hosted version of that server: no hardware, nothing to maintain, and you pay by the minute you are on air. Loopcast vs OBS, in detail.
No credit card. No subscription. You only pay if you buy minutes.
Sign up with just an email and your first week of airtime is on us. After that, top up only when you want more. There is no plan to pick, no monthly bill and nothing to cancel.
No card to sign up
Create an account with your email and get 7 days of one stream around the clock. We never ask for card details unless you decide to buy.
Pay as you go
Buy a pack of minutes from $5 whenever you want more. Minutes are only spent while you are live, and minutes you buy never expire.
Never charged by surprise
Nothing renews, and your card is only charged automatically if you switch on Auto refill yourself. Without it, your stream simply pauses at 0 minutes, so you can never spend more than you bought.
Takes a minute. No card, no commitment.
One honest price
No tiers, no seat fees, no surprises. Your balance is minutes of broadcasting - buy a pack, stream as long as you like.