The company was founded in 2014 and distributes a variety of software centered around live streaming and content creation.

Streamlabs was founded in 2014 as TwitchAlerts, a fork of OBS Studio with on-screen visual alerts typically used by streamers.

Users can broadcast their live streams to Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, or a custom RTMP destination.

Excluding standard processing fees, the platform takes no cut from donations, allowing all proceeds to go to charity.

[14] OBS Studio's tweet resulted in Twitch streamers, including Pokimane and Hasan Piker, threatening a boycott of their product if changes were not made.