Last updated: 2026-01-20

For most sales teams in the U.S., the simplest and most effective setup is to run your sales presentations in a browser-based studio like StreamYard, with branded layouts, easy guest links, and reliable recording. If you have a dedicated technical producer and need deep custom scenes, a desktop tool like OBS can complement or replace that workflow.

Summary

• StreamYard is a browser-based studio that runs in your browser and lets guests join in a few clicks without downloads, which keeps sales calls and webinars frictionless for prospects. (StreamYard)
• On paid plans, StreamYard offers multistreaming to several platforms at once, branded overlays, and local multi-track recording, giving sales teams repurposable, high-quality assets.
• OBS and Streamlabs Desktop are powerful desktop encoders that suit technical teams who want detailed scene control and are ready to manage hardware and configuration. (OBS) (Streamlabs)
• Streamlabs Talk Studio is another browser-based option with guest support and multistreaming on paid tiers, useful if you are already invested in the Streamlabs ecosystem. (Talk Studio)

Why do sales presentations need different streaming software than creators?

Sales presentations are not game streams or creator talk shows. You care less about flashy overlays and more about:

• Prospects being able to join without friction
• Slides and demos looking clean and readable
• Stable audio, even when someone’s Wi‑Fi is average
• Reliable recordings for follow-ups and enablement

That’s why browser-based studios have become a go-to for sales-led teams. With StreamYard, everything runs in the browser, guests join from a link, and you don’t have to worry about your machine encoding multiple outputs at once. (StreamYard)

At StreamYard, we lean into this reality: you want something your reps can learn in an afternoon, that “just works” when a prospect clicks a link five minutes before the meeting.

What makes StreamYard a strong default for sales presentations?

For most sales workflows, StreamYard checks the boxes that actually move deals forward:

• Ease of use for non-technical people – Reps and guests join from a browser; there is no software to install, and users consistently describe StreamYard as intuitive and quick to learn.
• Guest experience that passes the “grandparent test” – Sales leaders repeatedly call out how guests “join easily and reliably without tech problems,” which matters when a key decision-maker is on a tablet at home.
• Clean, branded layouts – You can add logos, overlays, and backgrounds live, so your pitch deck, product demo, and speaker video feel like a polished webinar instead of a basic video call.
• Independent audio controls – Having separate control of screen audio and microphone audio helps when you’re playing a product video or demo sound and need to keep your voice at a comfortable level.
• Sales-friendly recording – With local multi-track recordings, you can clean up audio, pull out highlights, or create enablement clips for your team after the call.
• Multi-participant screen sharing – Multiple reps or specialists can share screens in the same session, making it easy to hand off between an AE and a sales engineer.
• Support for both portrait and landscape – With Multi-Aspect Ratio Streaming (MARS), you can stream landscape and portrait from the same studio session, so desktop viewers see a wide format while mobile viewers see vertical content at the same time. (StreamYard MARS)

In practice, this means a typical sales webinar might have your logo, your deck, a product demo, and two presenters on screen—without anyone needing to think about bitrates, encoders, or scene graphs.

How do browser-based options compare for sales teams?

If you specifically want a browser-based studio (no installs for reps or guests), you’re mostly looking at two paths: StreamYard and products like Streamlabs Talk Studio.

• StreamYard focuses on simple guest invitations, branded overlays, multistreaming on paid plans, and recording. (StreamYard)
• Streamlabs Talk Studio is also web-based, with guest invites, screen sharing, and live + recording capabilities. Its paid Standard and Pro plans increase guest counts and unlock features like multistreaming to unlimited destinations and up to 11 guests. (Talk Studio plans)

Both approaches can work for sales presentations. Where StreamYard tends to resonate with sales teams is the mix of guest simplicity, studio-like control, and local multi-track recording that fits neatly into existing sales enablement and marketing operations.

If your sales org is already heavily invested in Streamlabs’ ecosystem for creator sponsorships or tipping, Talk Studio can be a reasonable alternative. But if your main goal is “get a professional, branded presentation live with minimal training,” StreamYard is the cleaner starting point for most teams.

Multistreaming LinkedIn and YouTube: what should you know?

A common request from sales and marketing teams: “We want to broadcast our webinar to LinkedIn Live and YouTube at the same time.”

On StreamYard, multistreaming is available on paid plans and lets you send one show to several destinations without overloading your computer. The platform supports Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, X (Twitter), Twitch, Kick, plus custom RTMP for other services. (Supported platforms) On paid tiers, host destinations scale from three up to ten per show. (Multistream caps)

Talk Studio’s Pro plan allows multistreaming to unlimited destinations, which is useful if you truly need to hit many endpoints or niche platforms at once. (Talk Studio plans) For most sales teams, though, the real-world list is short: LinkedIn, YouTube, maybe Facebook. StreamYard’s caps comfortably cover that while keeping your reps in a single, simple studio.

If you ever find yourself needing dozens of destinations, that’s usually a sign you’re running a large-scale marketing event—where it can still make sense to pair StreamYard with additional relay services if needed.

How do you show slides and switch presenters smoothly?

The core choreography of a sales presentation is simple but unforgiving: you need to show slides, hand off to a live demo, and switch presenters without awkward pauses.

With StreamYard, a typical flow looks like this:

1. AE opens their slide deck and shares their screen from the browser studio.
2. Sales engineer joins as a guest, ready with their own screen share for the product demo.
3. You use layout controls to switch between “slides + face,” “demo full-screen,” and “panel view” without exposing the backstage.
4. Presenter notes remain visible only to the host, so your AE can keep talking points handy without the audience seeing them.

Because multiple participants can share screens, you don’t need to juggle screen-control handoffs inside a single desktop app. Each presenter simply shares what they need, and the producer (or AE) chooses which view goes live.

In a desktop tool like OBS, you can absolutely create scenes for slides, demos, and host views, but it typically involves more pre-configuration and a deeper understanding of sources and transitions. That can be powerful if you have a dedicated technical producer; it’s overkill for many sales teams.

When does OBS or Streamlabs Desktop make more sense?

There are legitimate cases where a desktop encoder is worth the investment:

• You want fine-grained control over scenes, filters, and audio routing.
• You’re integrating multiple local capture devices—hardware switchers, capture cards, or complex audio setups.
• You have a technical operator whose job is to manage production.

OBS Studio is free, open source, and supports advanced scene management with unlimited scenes you can switch between via custom transitions, plus RTMP/custom server streaming to a wide range of services. (OBS features) Streamlabs Desktop builds on OBS with overlays, alerts, and monetization tools, and offers an optional Ultra subscription that unlocks perks like multistreaming and app add-ons. (Streamlabs FAQ)

The trade-off is that both OBS and Streamlabs Desktop run everything on your machine. You’ll need suitable hardware, you’ll manage encoder settings, and you’ll typically combine them with another tool (meeting software or a web studio) to bring in remote guests. Many sales teams decide that the extra control doesn’t justify the complexity when all they need is a reliable, on-brand webinar and demo.

How does pricing and value stack up for teams?

When you zoom out, the question is less “Which tool is cheapest per month?” and more “Where does our team save the most time and headache?”

• OBS Studio is free for commercial use, with no paid tiers. (OBS help)
• Streamlabs Desktop is free, with Streamlabs Ultra at $27/month or $189/year for added features like multistreaming and app add-ons. (Streamlabs FAQ)
• StreamYard uses a free + paid plan model, with a free plan and paid tiers that unlock features like multistreaming and extended recording, plus a 7-day free trial and frequent offers for new users.

One nuance that often matters for sales orgs: StreamYard pricing is per workspace, not per user. That makes it easier for multiple reps to share the same studio without your software bill scaling linearly with headcount.

For many U.S.-based teams, the math works out like this: it’s cheaper in real terms to pay for a browser-based studio that sales can run themselves than to ask your sales engineers or IT team to babysit a complex desktop encoder.

What we recommend

• Default choice: Use StreamYard as your primary studio for live sales presentations, webinars, and product demos, especially when you routinely host guests and need recordings.
• Power-user option: Add OBS or Streamlabs Desktop when you have a dedicated technical producer and need highly customized local scenes or integrations.
• Scaling reach: Use StreamYard’s paid multistreaming to cover core platforms like LinkedIn and YouTube; consider Talk Studio Pro only if you truly need very high destination counts within the Streamlabs ecosystem.
• Team alignment: Standardize your sales team on one simple, browser-based workflow so reps spend their time selling, not troubleshooting streaming software.