Do not be shocked if you happen to see extra stay streams on X over the subsequent month. Whereas stay streaming is not a brand new function for the social community, it isn’t a function you’d generally affiliate with it. Now, the corporate has launched a stay streaming command middle known as Dwell Studio, with instruments creators have to go stay extra simply, together with new payouts to incentivize them.
In a few posts on X, the corporate’s head of product has introduced that it is going to be “rewarding creators who stay stream by allocating $1 million” for them within the upcoming cycle. Nikita Bier did not expound on how the payouts will probably be structured, however he stated extra particulars will observe. He did publish a demo of the brand new stay streaming command middle inside Creator Studio, nonetheless, to indicate the way it works.
Throughout the command middle, customers will be capable to create a brand new stream, give it a title and add a thumbnail that viewers will see earlier than it goes stay. They’ll schedule it to start at a selected hour on a sure day after which select who will get to have the ability to watch it. Dwell streams will be restricted to verified accounts, the accounts a creator follows or their subscribers, however they may also be seen to everybody on X. Dwell Studio additionally exhibits creators their viewers’ feedback and the way their steam is doing, together with the variety of concurrent viewers, the nations they’re from and the gadgets they use.
Dwell streaming on X is solely out there to customers paying $3 a month for an X Premium subscription. Whether or not X has improved its stay streaming infrastructure over the previous few years stays to be seen. In 2023, Ron DeSantis was purported to announce his presidential bid on the platforms’ stay audio streaming service Areas, however X’s servers were “kind of melting” and prevented him from doing so. After which a 12 months later, Elon Musk was purported to interview President Trump, as nicely, however his Areas stay crashed and have become inaccessible.
At present we’re asserting Dwell Studio, a model new livestreaming command middle on X
X is the place every thing is going on now. So we’re launching the very best instruments for professional streamers to go stay, join with their followers & handle their streams
Test it out on 𝕏.com in Creator Studio pic.twitter.com/B06MLScFj9
— Nikita Bier (@nikitabier) July 1, 2026
