Someone built this from a playlist. It plays here, in the apps, and on a TV.
All of it self-serve from your creator account.
In Studio, order the videos you want on air into a playlist. That running order is your schedule, so put the strongest thing first.
Open the Live TV tab, create a channel and point it at that playlist. Add a name and channel art, then finish setup. No encoder or stream key anywhere in this step.
Hit Go live. The channel joins the Live TV guide across every Rad app, and you get a public link and an embed code to put on your own site and socials.
An illustration of the Live TV setup in Studio, not a screenshot. Pick the playlist, name the channel, then Go live.
Both routes are self-serve from your creator account.
Option 1
Order your existing videos into a playlist and set it running as a Live TV channel. Rad handles playout, so a back catalogue becomes something people leave on in the background, instead of a library nobody scrolls.
No encoder. No stream key. No external playout service.
Option 2
Already producing a live feed? Paste an m3u8 URL into the Live TV tab in your account and set it live. Rad carries it to every supported screen and lists it in the guide.
Useful if you already run a playout chain and just need distribution.
The moment a channel goes live it is carried by every Rad TV client, including the ones most creators never get to ship on.
Your channel appears in the Rad TV guide next to established networks, on every device that carries the guide.
Shipping a TV or console app is a project in itself. Your channel reaches those screens through the Rad apps the day you turn it on.
Channels get a real page with server-rendered detail, so people can find you from search rather than only from inside the app.
Channel memberships and tipping are free to switch on, and creators keep the large majority of the revenue, paid to their own bank by Stripe.
Worth knowing up front rather than after you have built a schedule.
This is linear Live TV without the ad break. There is no ad server and no ad revenue share today, so the earning path is memberships and tips. If you are looking specifically for ad monetization, this is not that yet.
Your Live TV channel plays through Rad TV on those devices. It is not a separately branded app in each store, and it is not carriage on a third-party FAST service.
Run a Live TV channel with content you own or are licensed to distribute. Rad is the distribution, not the licence.
From your creator account, either order videos into a playlist and set it running as a Live TV channel, or paste an m3u8 URL into the Live TV tab and set it live. Both are self-serve and take minutes.
Yes. Launching a Live TV channel and turning on memberships and tipping are free. Creator+ is an optional add-on for the AI production tools, not a requirement for running a Live TV channel.
On web, iOS, Android, Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast, PlayStation (PS4 and PS5), PSVR and PSVR2, and Meta Quest. It syndicates the moment the channel goes live.
It is Live TV, run as linear distribution. One honest caveat: there is no ad insertion yet, so there is no advertising revenue share today. Creators earn through channel memberships and tips instead.
Not for a playlist-driven Live TV channel. Rad handles playout, so you do not need an encoder, a stream key or an external playout provider. If you already run a live feed, you can point Rad at your m3u8 instead.
Yes, through channel memberships and direct tipping. Both are free to enable, creators keep the large majority of the revenue, and payouts go to your own bank account through Stripe.
