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We are excited to announce the release of Red5 Live Streaming app, a new mobile application that makes it easy to publish real-time video and audio directly from your smartphone into Red5 Cloud using WebRTC. Available now on both Android and iOS, Red5 Live Streaming app transforms your phone into a real-time video contribution input, allowing you to stream high-quality live video to audiences worldwide with ultra-low latency.
Watch a product overview video on Youtube.
Stream Live From Anywhere
Whether you are covering a live event, producing content on the go, reporting from the field, monitoring a remote location, or building interactive live experiences, Red5 Live Streaming app provides a simple way to get video from your phone into a scalable Red5 Cloud deployment.
The app is designed for a wide range of use cases, including:
- Mobile journalism and field reporting.
- Creator-driven content and travel vlogs.
- Outdoor and adventure streaming.
- Interactive social and IRL streaming.
- Remote production for sports and news.
- Live event coverage.
- Security and inspection monitoring.
- Other real-time broadcasting workflows.
Key Features
- Simple Login With Magic Links: Getting started is easy. Enter your email address and receive a magic link that logs you directly into the app. If you do not already have a Red5 Cloud account, the link will guide you through the signup process.
New Red5 Cloud users receive:
- 50 GB of free streaming each month,
- 6,000 instance hours each month,
- No credit card required.
- Create a Live Stream in a Few Taps: Launch the app, create a stream, and start publishing high-quality video and audio from your phone in real time. Streams are delivered through Red5 Cloud’s autoscaling infrastructure, allowing you to reach audiences of any size.
- Optimize Quality for Your Network: Choose from preset quality profiles that automatically adjust resolution and bitrate to match available network conditions, helping maintain a reliable streaming experience wherever you are.
- Select Your Red5 Cloud Node Group: Publish directly into the node group that best fits your deployment architecture and streaming requirements.
- Share Your Stream Instantly: Once your stream is live, simply share the player URL. Viewers can watch from any modern browser on virtually any device without installing additional software.
Why We Built It
Many organizations already use smartphones as cameras in their production workflows, but getting those feeds into scalable real-time streaming infrastructure can be unnecessarily complicated. Red5 Live Streaming app simplifies that process by providing a direct path from a mobile device into Red5 Cloud using WebRTC. The result is a faster, simpler workflow for capturing and delivering live video with ultra-low latency.
What’s Next
This initial release focuses on doing one thing exceptionally well: enabling real-time WebRTC publishing from mobile devices into Red5 Cloud. Future updates will expand the application’s capabilities based on feedback from developers, creators, broadcasters, and organizations building interactive live experiences on top of Red5 technology. We look forward to hearing how you use Red5 Live Streaming and what features you would like to see next.
Download Red5 Live Streaming
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.red5.mobiletools
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/red5-live-streaming/id6756134634
Download the app today and start streaming real-time video from your phone to audiences anywhere in the world.
Product marketing manager with experience at software companies, startups, and enterprises in the live streaming industry since 2018. Her core expertise is SEO, but she also collaborates closely with the product development team to integrate marketing into Red5 solutions and drive adoption. She supports growth through go-to-market strategies, release announcements, email campaigns, case studies, sales enablement materials, social media, and other channels.
