Ever since the crisis of COVID-19 pandemic occurred, our way of dealing with different facets of our daily lives has changed. We are now relying everything to the internet and technology. From working at home, online lecturing, even shopping and food delivery as businesses take advantage of the digital or online platforms.

The event industry is also one of the most affected by this pandemic. And to make sure that this industry stays in the game, some decided to utilize technology by using different internet live streaming platforms.

Yet, live streaming is not only for events but can be also effectively used by students and educators for online learning.

If you are planning to organize an event such as seminars, discussions, awardings—live streaming is the best alternative during this testing time, which is not just convenient but can also be profitable.

So to help and guide you what are the free yet best streaming software that you can use for your agenda based on the users online review, we made a list to make your life easier:

OBS Studio

OBS Studio is actually a top pick for free streaming software for some. It is available for Windows, Mac and Linux users, and also gives free updates from its contributors.

It is convenient to use as everything is already there. You can create scenes from multiple sources such as windows, images, text, webcams, etc. OBS Studio can be used in different platforms in the likes of Twitch, Youtube, Mixer, Facebook and many other platforms that have stream keys which you’ll be needing to mirror the platform to the software.

Streamlabs OBS

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Streamlabs OBS is built on the same foundation as OBS Studio, according to the article from Tech Radar, “Streamlabs offers improved performance via automatic optimization, though the difference in our tests was negligible.”

Based on reviews, it has a cleaner interface and that makes Streamlabs OBS a good choice for people who are not familiar or just first-time streamers. Streamlabs OBS users said that it is extremely easy to set up and comes at free of cost.

NVIDIA Shadowplay

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If you are into online gaming and want to live stream your gameplay, NVIDIA is a fine choice. Based on NVIDIA’s website, If you have a GeForce graphics card (a brand of graphics processing units (GPUs) designed by Nvidia), Nvidia Shadowplay comes along with the drivers. It has a major advantage over most streaming software as it encodes in the GPU rather than the CPU, so meaning to say, it has insignificant impact on performance, but it's far less flexible than OBS Studio. There are no overlays or multi-sources scenes—just the game itself. 

Although reviews from the users said that streaming is not Shadowplay’s strongest suit, but it is excellent with video recording.

ezTalks Webinar

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Webinar is one of the best online learning streaming software that is ideal and perfect for educators and students. It helps teachers and learners to teach and study over the internet. This classroom software supports to deliver unlimited online lessons with the help of its impressive features.

Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder

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Adobe Flash Media Live Encoder is a software popularly used by professionals for their live streaming needs with audio and video files. Based on Filmora’s review of the software, there are two major benefits with using Adobe Flash—first, it supports a smooth quality of motion graphic files and second is its basic setup is quite easier.

As Coronavirus vastly affected different industries, it’s better for different businesses and people to learn to adapt with these abrupt changes. According to Straitstimes’ (an English newspaper based in Singapore) interview with Kitty Fok, Managing Director of research firm in China, "Consumers now want a contactless experience because of the pandemic, and with livestreaming, you also get that interactive experience... E-commerce is not going to go back to what it was before."

No one wants to be left behind, so in order to keep your business alive or continue learning amidst the pandemic, we are thankful that these streaming software exist to help us adapt the new normal.