Streamer setup: go live with Krunc

The two-minute video above walks through the same five steps; captions are available.

Everything below happens in your workspace at https://krunc.com/dashboard. You need the owner or admin role. The same guide lives inside the dashboard at Go-live setup, with pictures of each screen and a checklist that ticks itself as you complete the steps.

Step 1 — Set up each channel once

1. Open Channels (Create → Channels). Every platform is one card with two halves: the account and its stream key.
2. Connect the account. That is what flips your live badge, counts live viewers for sponsors and publishes your scheduled posts.
3. Add the stream key on the same card — or don't. On Twitch, YouTube and KICK there is nothing to paste: press Fetch key from … and Krunc reads the channel's own key through the connection you just made. Facebook, Instagram and TikTok have no API for stream keys, so copy those from the platform; the server URL is already filled in from the platform's own instructions. Keys are encrypted and never shown again in full.

If a card says Reconnect to fetch the key, that account was connected before Krunc asked the platform for permission to read it — reconnect once and the key fills itself in.

1. Leave each destination enabled. Whatever is enabled gets your stream.
2. Press Test all keys. Krunc sends two seconds of black video to each platform and tells you which keys were accepted — a minute now beats finding out mid-stream. A key that was rotated on the platform shows up as not accepted.

Stream keys need the admin role; staff can connect accounts but never see a key.

Step 2 — Turn on sponsors (optional but recommended)

1. Make sure Twitch, YouTube or KICK is connected on Channels — sponsor impressions are counted against a real live viewer count.
2. Sponsors → enable sponsorships on your profile and accept the campaigns you want to run. Without this, no overlay is shown anywhere.

Step 2.5 — Name your stream once

On Go live, Krunc ingest or OBS setup there is a Stream title card. Type the title and the game

once and press Save & push now: Krunc sets them on Twitch and KICK (title and category) and on YouTube

(title — YouTube takes no game from us). Leave Push it automatically when I go live on and it happens every

time you start a stream, so you never open three dashboards again.

If a platform says reconnect needed, it was connected before Krunc asked for permission to set the title —

reconnect it once on Channels.

Step 3 — Pick how you go live

Option A — OBS on your PC (best quality)

1. Install OBS 28 or newer.
2. In OBS: Tools → WebSocket Server Settings → tick Enable WebSocket server → Show Connect Info → copy the password.

1. In Krunc: OBS setup (Create → OBS setup) → paste the password → Configure OBS.

Krunc sets your stream server and key inside OBS and adds the sponsor overlay as a browser source. Tick Start streaming right after if you want to go live immediately.

1. Add your game capture, camera and mic above the overlay source in the scene. Press Start Streaming whenever you like. One stream leaves your PC; Krunc sends it to every enabled destination.

No WebSocket? Click Download krunc-obs.zip on the same page, then in OBS use Profile → Import (the Krunc folder) and Scene Collection → Import (Krunc-scenes.json).

Setting up a second computer is fine — both get the same key, and neither stops the other working. If you lose the key, Krunc ingest can reveal it again; rotating it is only for when it leaks (and then every computer needs setting up again).

Option B — No software: go live from the browser

1. Open Go live (browser) (Create → Go live).
2. Click Share screen (tick share audio in the Chrome dialog if you want game sound) or Camera.
3. Choose a quality (720p is the safe default; your upload should be at least 1.5× the bitrate) and press Go live.
4. Keep the tab open. Stop or closing the tab ends the stream.

Chrome or Edge on a desktop works best.

Option C — From your phone (IRL, events, no computer)

Krunc ingest takes RTMP from anything, so a phone behaves exactly like OBS: the relay sends it on to every

enabled destination and the sponsor overlay still applies.

1. Install Larix Broadcaster — free, iOS and Android.
2. On Krunc ingest, press Show setup QR and point the phone's camera at it. Larix opens with the

connection already filled in, so there is no 35-character key to type on a touchscreen.

1. Pick that connection in Larix and press record. The ingest page shows LIVE ON INGEST within a minute.

Any app that accepts a custom RTMP server works as well — give it the single URL from the same panel, or the

server and key separately. On mobile data, 720p at 2500–3500 kbps holds up better than 1080p; the relay does not

re-encode, so whatever the phone sends is what each platform gets.

The QR and the single URL both contain your stream key. Treat them like a password, and keep the QR off stream.

Step 4 — Sponsor overlay: pick one of two ways

• In OBS (Option A) the overlay is a browser source Krunc already added. Nothing else to do.
• Burned in by the server works for both options: on Krunc ingest or the go-live page, choose your profile and click Burn overlay in. The server draws each sponsor creative into the picture on the campaign's schedule and re-encodes at 720p. The server can do this for one stream at a time; if the slot is busy, your stream still goes out, just without the burned-in overlay, and the sessions table says so.

Step 5 — Check it worked

• Krunc ingest shows LIVE ON INGEST within a minute and the destinations it is relaying to. A platform that refuses the stream is marked not receiving there with the reason, and you get a notification while you are still live — the other platforms keep streaming.
• Your /@handle page shows the live badge; the Live now directory lists you.
• Sponsor impressions appear on the campaign pages as the overlay airs.

If something is off

Questions: use the contact page and pick Support.