Zoom and Restream: take your meeting to more audiences
Keep your speakers and presentation in Zoom, then send the live broadcast to Restream for distribution to your selected channels. This Zoom integration is built for webinars, interviews, classes, and events where presenters join Zoom while viewers watch on social platforms.
Why use Restream with Zoom?
Zoom’s Live Streaming app can already stream to up to three destinations. Restream adds a separate distribution workflow for managing supported channels, audience chat, and broadcast monitoring in one place. Your simultaneous destination limit depends on your Restream plan.
- Reach audiences on their preferred channels: broadcast your Zoom meeting or webinar through Restream to supported destinations such as YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitch. Viewers can watch without joining the Zoom session.
- Manage supported audience comments: Restream Chat brings supported platform comments together. Monitor chat alongside your Zoom broadcast and reply where the destination supports it. This does not turn social viewers into Zoom participants or sync every Zoom chat, poll, or Q&A feature.
- Monitor the broadcast: check your stream and destination status, then review available stream analytics. Metrics vary by platform; custom RTMP destinations do not provide the same API-based data.
What you need before connecting Zoom
You need an eligible paid Zoom account with an assigned Meetings or Webinars license and permission to use custom live streaming. A Zoom owner or administrator may need to enable this setting. Connect your intended destinations in Restream and check each platform’s live-streaming eligibility before the event.
Restream’s free plan supports two eligible channels with Restream branding. Some destinations, including Facebook Pages and custom RTMP, require a paid plan. The Zoom subscription and Restream plan are separate.
How to connect Zoom to Restream
- Enable custom streaming: open your Zoom account settings, enable Allow livestreaming for meetings or webinars, and select Custom Live Streaming Service.
- Prepare the event: open your scheduled meeting or webinar, find Live Streaming, and choose Configure custom streaming.
- Create the Restream stream: from your Restream home screen, choose New Stream → Encoder | RTMP. Connect and enable the destinations you want to use. Copy the RTMP URL and stream key for this stream.
- Configure Zoom: paste those values into Stream URL and Stream key. Add a destination’s viewing page URL in Live streaming page URL. Leave streaming-service authentication unchecked; keep your stream key private.
- Go live and verify: start your Zoom meeting or webinar, then choose More → Livestream → Live on Custom Live Streaming Service. Confirm the feed and enabled destinations in Restream, and test audio, screen sharing, and the audience view.
Optional production and distribution tools
The direct Zoom-to-Restream workflow does not require Restream Studio. For a different production setup, RTMP Source can bring Zoom into Studio so you can add branded graphics, supported audience comments, and lower thirds. Check feature and plan requirements before choosing this workflow.
Guest channels let collaborators add their destinations to your broadcast; they do not change who can join the Zoom call. An embeddable website player is another distribution option, subject to its plan requirements.
Zoom and Restream FAQ
Can I multistream a Zoom meeting with Restream?
Yes. Send Zoom’s custom RTMP feed to Restream, then enable your connected destinations. Restream distributes the same meeting or webinar feed; the number of simultaneous channels depends on your plan.
Can I use a free Zoom account?
The custom live-streaming workflow requires an eligible paid Zoom account and the appropriate assigned license. Restream’s free plan does not remove Zoom’s licensing requirements.
Can viewers interact with my Zoom webinar?
Social viewers can use the chat features supported by their viewing platform. Restream can collect supported comments, but viewers do not automatically join Zoom or receive its participant, polling, or Q&A controls.
Does this send Restream into Zoom?
No. This setup uses Zoom as the source and sends its broadcast to Restream. Sending a feed into Zoom Events or Webinars Plus is a separate incoming-RTMP workflow.
