Editorial Policy

Last updated: August 4, 2026

Streamloop publishes guides about live streaming: how to set one up, what the platforms allow, and which tools do what. This page explains how that content gets made, so you can judge how much weight to give it.

1. Who writes this

I do. My name is Andrew Vasilyev. I am the founder and engineer behind Streamloop, and Streamloop is a one-person company based in Tbilisi, Georgia.

There is no content team and no freelance byline pool. Every guide on this site is written or rewritten by me, and every guide carries my name. If a page ever has a different author, that author will be named on the page with their own background.

You can reach me at contact@streamloop.app or through the contact page.

2. How guides are researched

  • Primary sources first. When a guide states a platform rule, a limit, a price or a date, the source is the platform itself wherever one exists — Twitch's own blog and developer documentation, YouTube's help centre and terms, the OBS project documentation, the FFmpeg manual. Those links are in the text, not hidden in a bibliography.
  • Secondary sources are labelled as such. Some things platforms do not document clearly, or document on pages that are hard to read. Where a claim rests on a support forum, a vendor's documentation or a news report, the guide says where it came from and leaves you able to check it.
  • Unverifiable claims do not get stated as fact. If I cannot find a source I trust for something, the guide either leaves it out or says plainly that it is uncertain. A confident sentence with nothing behind it is worse than an admitted gap, particularly on questions where being wrong gets someone's channel banned.
  • Setups are run before they are described. The step-by-step sections describe what actually happens when you do the thing, on the current version of the interface, not what the documentation says should happen. Screenshots come from real accounts.

3. Writing about our own product

Streamloop is a commercial product and I built it. That is a conflict of interest, and pretending otherwise would be the fastest way to make this whole site worthless. So:

  • Every guide that recommends Streamloop says I built it, near the top, before the recommendation — not in small print at the bottom.
  • Alternatives get named and linked, including direct competitors, with an honest note on where each one is a better fit. OBS and FFmpeg are free and I say so.
  • Limitations of Streamloop are stated in the guides themselves. If the honest answer to a reader's situation is that they do not need us for this, the guide says that.
  • We do not compare against a competitor without checking their current product. Comparison pages carry the date they were last verified, because pricing and features move.

4. Money

  • No paid placements. Nobody can pay to be included in, excluded from, or ranked higher in a roundup or comparison on this site.
  • No affiliate links at the time of writing. If that ever changes, affiliate relationships will be disclosed on every page that carries one, and they will not affect rankings or recommendations. This page will be updated first.
  • No sponsored posts. If a piece of content is ever produced under a commercial arrangement, it will be labelled at the top.

5. Updates and corrections

  • Every guide carries a date, and guides that have been revised show when they were last updated. If a page has not been touched in a while, you can see that for yourself.
  • Guides covering platform rules are reviewed at least twice a year, and immediately when a platform announces something that changes the advice — a new bitrate ceiling, a changed requirement, a shut-down feature. Streaming platforms move faster than most software, and a guide quoting last year's limits is actively harmful.
  • Corrections are made in place, not quietly. When a factual error is fixed, the change is made in the text and the last-updated date moves. For anything that changes the substance of the advice — a wrong limit, a rule that reversed, a recommendation that is no longer safe — a short correction note is added to the page saying what was wrong and when it was fixed.

If you find an error, tell me. Email contact@streamloop.app with the page and what is wrong. I would rather hear it from you than leave it up.

6. Use of AI

AI tools are used for research assistance, drafting and editing. Every published guide is reviewed, fact-checked and edited by me before it goes live, and I am responsible for everything on this site regardless of how a first draft was produced. No guide is published unread.