Substack is trying to turn its writers into streamers

Substack is present letting creators watercourse unrecorded videos arsenic different mode to link with their audiences.

Substack has progressively been expanding from its roots arsenic a newsletter platform, including adding Twitter-like Notes posts, the quality to publish video podcasts, and adjacent letting radical follow different users without subscribing to them. As of past month, you don’t adjacent need to acceptable up a work to stock content. With unrecorded video, creators volition beryllium capable to interact with their fans successful existent clip without having to trust connected different level similar Twitch.

When you spell live, your subscribers volition beryllium notified immediately, and you tin marque your streams disposable to everyone, to each subscribers, oregon lone to paid subscribers, according to a blog post. Creators tin besides bring successful different creator to a unrecorded watercourse for a collaboration. Once unrecorded videos are done, the signaling volition beryllium saved to a creator’s station drafts if they privation to usage it successful a station successful the future.

The unrecorded streaming diagnostic is rolling retired successful the Substack app. The diagnostic is presently disposable its mobile app to “bestsellers” (creators with a batch of subscribers) and the institution plans to bring it to each Substack users “in the coming months.” If you don’t person the diagnostic yet, you tin request aboriginal entree from Substack.