When livestreaming to any distribution channel from Socialive Studio, there will be some delays between the moment you go live in Socialive and when the distribution channel receives the stream signal from Socialive. This article provides some estimated delay times to the most commonly used distribution channels.
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The numbers provided below are estimated delay times. Screen-to-screen time will vary for each distribution channel as they ingest, transcode, and distribute video differently.
| Distribution Channel | Estimated Delay Time |
| Socialive Player | 10 seconds |
| 10 seconds | |
| YouTube | 15 seconds |
| 10 seconds | |
| 20 seconds | |
| Twitch | 15 seconds |
| Amazon | 15 seconds |
| Microsoft Stream | 20 seconds |
| Brightcove | 30 seconds |
| Vimeo | 20 seconds |
| Kaltura | 40-60 seconds |