Run a company all-hands or a community town hall from your browser and live stream it to YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Slack and your website at once. Questions from every channel land in one place, and the replay is ready when you finish.
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The basics
A virtual town hall is a town hall meeting held online. Leaders share updates, then open the floor to questions, and the audience joins from wherever they are instead of filling a room. The format is the same whether a CEO is speaking to employees or a mayor is speaking to residents: a short program, honest answers and a record people can come back to.
Restream is the live streaming side of that meeting. You produce the town hall in Restream Studio, send it to every channel your audience already uses, and keep the questions, the recording and the numbers in one place.
For companies
Share results, strategy and org news with every office at the same time. Stream into the Slack channels your team already reads, or send one registration link that works for the live town hall and the replay, so people in other time zones catch up later.
For the public sector
Mayors, council members, school boards and agencies use virtual town halls to reach residents who can’t make it to a meeting room. Stream to YouTube, Facebook and your own website, take questions from every platform, and keep the recording for the public record.
The format
A town hall has four parts: the program, the questions, the reach and the record. Restream covers each one from the browser, and your audience has nothing to install.
Live Q&A and AMAs
Questions from YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Slack and the registration page arrive in a single chat. A teammate moderates backstage, skips the duplicates and puts the best questions on screen while the host keeps talking. The same setup runs an open AMA with your CEO, a department head or an elected official.
Live stream the town hall on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, X and other platforms at the same time, so people watch where they already spend their day.
Embed the Restream web player on your intranet or your city’s website, so people can watch without a social media account.
Web playerRead and reply to every platform from one chat panel, moderate comments, and show selected messages on screen.
Restream ChatStream the town hall into Slack channels for up to 10,000 viewers, with reactions, questions and the recording in the thread.
Live Webinar gates the town hall behind a registration page. The same link serves the live stream and the replay, and registrants export as a CSV.
Live WebinarPut up to 10 people on stage, share slides and screens, add your branding, and switch scenes, with nothing to install.
Restream StudioRecord in the cloud on any paid plan, publish the replay on the same link, and download the recording and transcript for your archive.
AI Clips finds the key answers and cuts captioned vertical clips you can share after the town hall.
Restream ClipsSee viewers, views and chat activity for every channel, so you know who tuned in and where the questions came from.
AnalyticsBuilt for public meetings
Council sessions run long, meeting rooms come with their own AV, and IT wants to know who has access. Restream is set up for all three.
Step by step
The same run of show works for a 50-person team meeting and a county-wide public forum. Plan it once, then reuse it every quarter.
Decide what people should know when the town hall ends. Keep the updates short and leave at least a third of the time for questions.
Employees watch in Slack or on a registration page. Residents watch on YouTube, Facebook or your website. Restream covers all of them in one stream.
Invite your speakers, upload slides, add your logo and colors, and prepare scenes for the countdown, the updates and the Q&A.
Ask for questions in the invite, then open the chat when you go live. Give one person the job of moderator so the host can stay on camera.
Start from your browser. Restream sends the town hall to every destination you picked and brings the chat back into one panel.
Send the recording to people who missed it, post clips of the key answers, and reply to the questions you ran out of time for.
FAQ
A virtual town hall meeting is a town hall held online. A leader, such as a CEO, a mayor or a member of Congress, shares updates and answers questions live, and the audience joins from a browser or a social platform instead of a meeting room. Most virtual town halls are recorded, so people who missed them can watch later.
A tele-town hall runs over the phone: constituents get a call, listen in, and can press a key to ask a question. A virtual town hall is a video stream people watch on YouTube, Facebook, a website or an internal channel, with questions in the chat. Restream runs video town halls. It does not place phone calls.
Check how people join (a browser link or the platforms they already use), how many speakers you can put on stage, how questions reach the host, whether you can stream to several channels at once, and what happens to the recording. Restream handles all five from the browser.
Collect questions in advance, then open the live chat when you start. With Restream, questions from every platform arrive in one chat, a moderator picks which ones to answer, and the selected question appears on screen. With Live Webinar, you can also invite an attendee on stage to ask in person.
Yes. Restream multistreams one town hall to YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Slack and 30+ other destinations at once, and the Restream web player puts the same live stream on your own website or intranet.
Stream only to the Slack channels you choose, or to a Live Webinar registration page that you share internally, and leave public destinations like YouTube off. Keep in mind that anyone who has the registration link can sign up, so treat the link as internal.
On Business and Enterprise plans, disconnect protection keeps the stream live when your connection drops. Enterprise also supports a primary and a backup feed from two encoders or two internet connections, and the backup takes over automatically.
Yes. Point any encoder, switcher or streaming software that supports RTMP, such as OBS or vMix, at Restream. Enterprise also accepts SRT, HLS and WHIP. Set your destinations up once, and the town hall goes live on all of them as soon as the room starts streaming.
Yes. Invite the interpreter as a guest in Restream Studio so they stay on screen next to the speaker for the whole meeting. After the town hall, you can download the transcript, and AI Clips adds captions to the highlight clips you share.
It depends on where they watch. Live Webinar holds up to 100 attendees on Standard and Professional plans, up to 500 on Business, and 1,000 or more on Enterprise. A stream into Slack reaches up to 10,000 viewers, and the website player holds up to 1,000 concurrent viewers on Business. On YouTube, Facebook and other public platforms, the audience size is set by the platform, not by Restream.
Yes. On paid plans, Restream records the town hall in the cloud. With Live Webinar, the replay appears on the same link as soon as the stream ends, and you can switch playback off at any time. You can also download the recording and its transcript.
Yes. Upload the recording to Upload & Stream and schedule it to go out as a live stream at a time that suits the other region. It plays on every destination you pick, just like a live town hall.
Yes. The Zoom integration sends a Zoom meeting or webinar to YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook and other destinations through Restream, so people outside the call can watch.
Yes. Public agencies use Restream to stream town halls, community meetings and briefings to residents on every channel, and co-producers and moderators can be assigned so only authorized staff run the broadcast. See Restream for government for more examples.
You can start multistreaming on Restream's free plan. Town halls that need a registration page use the Live Webinar add-on: $99 per month for up to 100 attendees on Standard and Professional, $299 per month for up to 500 on Business, and custom pricing for 1,000 or more. See pricing for plan details.
Put your leaders on screen, take questions from every channel, and give everyone who missed it a replay on the same link.