Tune in to chat live with your friends or with your favorite bands and celebrities, or Go Live and host your own live video chat. We also offer live group videochats and interactive games. We hope you'll join us because at Stickam, it’s not about us, it’s about YOU!
Going Live
Broadcast your live video with Stickam. You can be live in less than a minute! All you need is a computer (Any Intel Core 2 Duo 1Ghz or faster computer with least 1 GB of RAM), an internet connection (500 mbps minimum upload speed recommended), and a webcam or other connected video camera. Learn more.
You can choose if you want to let everyone watch you, or only your friends. You can also choose whether or not to let viewers chat with you (video chat or text chat) in the Stickam chat room, or via our Twitter chat room.
- TIP: You can also broadcast live from your iPhone! Just download the free Stickam App from the ITunes Store. You can also view any live stream from the IPhone, Android, or most any other smart phone. Learn more.
- TIP: By default, when you go live on Stickam you will be using our web-based Flash application. If you would like to broadcast in higher quality near-HD you can do so with one of several RTMP desktop clients. One of these is Flash Media Live Encoder, which is available as a free download from Adobe. Learn more.
- TIP: HOW TO PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY AND STAY SAFE ONLINE. Stickam provides a set of tools to help you maintain privacy and control over your live stream and chat room. Learn more.
Watch and Interact With Live People or Live Shows
Follow friends, celebrities, shows, bands, and people of interest LIVE. Join the interaction! If you know a user’s profile name, you can go directly to their page and find their live video www.stickam.com/USERNAME.
Browse our “Who’s Live” pages to see who is live. Sort by category (Shows, Radio, Music, Social) or by popularity and find live people or shows you want to watch or join.
Join a Group Chat Room or Play Stickam Shuffle and Poker Night
Another great ways to meet or interact with new people on Stickam is through one of our Group Chat Rooms. These are chat rooms organized around topics, and you can interact via either text or video chatting. View the current groups or start your own here.
Stickam Shuffle is a game where you can go live and connect to random people from all over the world, one at a time. Award people you like with a star, or have fun by throwing tomatoes or eggs at them. Earn points to move up with Shuffle scoreboard and visit the Shuffle Marketplace to get more virtual items. Play now!
Poker Night is a game where you can play Texas Hold’em with other Stickam members live. You can even create your own Poker room and invite your friends to join you. Try it out!
Creating Your Profile Page
When you create a Stickam account, you automatically get a Stickam profile page. Feel free to add pictures and a description here. Your recorded live streams will also be archived here if you opt to record and save them. Even if you do not add a description we highly recommend you upload a profile picture. Uploading a profile picture significantly increases the likelihood of people visiting your page and checking out your live streams.
Facebook Connect
Instantly add your Stickam player to your Facebook profile or fan page with Stickam’s Facebook App. You can also One-2-One chat with your Facebook friends. Get the App here.
Stickam Glossary
Stickam: verb, to live stream video or video chat. exp: “Let’s Stickam tonight!”
Lurker: noun, someone who watches a live stream but who does not enter the chat room. If you do not want lurkers, you can set your player to require viewers to log in to your room in order to view.
Join a live: verb, to enter someone’s live chat room.
Mod: noun, someone you have granted permission to to help moderate your room. Mods have the power to kick or ban users from your live chat room. verb, the act of making someone a mod.
Kick: verb, to temporarily remove someone from your chat room, preventing them from interacting with you or your room.
Ban: verb, to permanently remove someone from your chat room, preventing them from interacting with you or your room.
Friend: noun, a friend on Stickam is someone you know or meet online and add to your friend list. Everytime you log on you will see a list of all your friends, with your live friends sorted on top.
Follow: verb, to subscribe to Stickam users you want to receive an alert about every time they go live.