Run a 24/7 channel without guessing.
Each guide answers one question in full, with sources. VOD247 does the same work for you, once you would rather stop maintaining it.
Start here.
A 24/7 channel is a playlist, an encoder that never sleeps, and a chat that decides what plays next. 247.zerator.com has aired 3,006 VODs that way.
Setup
How to host a 24/7 Twitch channel.
Four working setups, from an OBS loop to hosted playout, the raid loop, and where each one breaks.
8 min readOn air
The 48-hour broadcast limit.
Twitch caps a broadcast at 48 hours. How a 24/7 channel reconnects before that, between two VODs.
11 min readRights
Muted audio and DMCA on reruns.
What a muted segment is, what it becomes on a rerun, and what a channel can do about it before airing.
8 min readSetup
Stream a pre-recorded video on Twitch.
Why a Twitch upload is not a live broadcast, three ways to air a recorded file, and the settings that work.
4 min readRules
Twitch reruns and Affiliate hours.
What Twitch writes about reruns, labelling and the thresholds, with sources. Then a checker for your own numbers.
10 min readArchive
When Twitch deletes your VODs.
7, 14 or 60 days, depending on the account. A calculator for the exact date, and three ways to save them before it.
8 min readLooking for the 24/7 channels themselves?
Twitch lists the always-on channels that are live right now under the Always On category. VOD247 counts them every hour: how many are on air, how many people watch, and what the French scene reruns.
Read one, then skip the work.
Each guide ends where VOD247 starts: it archives the VODs, reconnects before the cap and opens the chat vote.
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