thirdcoast.tv
A live video platform for independent shows that want their own URL, their own audience, and their own relationship with the people watching, not a tab inside Twitch or Patreon, and not a Stripe-and-Vimeo Frankenstein the operator has to glue back together every morning.
Live and VOD video, chat, ticketed events, subscriptions, tips, and payouts all run as one product on the show's own domain. 8% flat. No surprise demonetization, no "we updated our policies" email arriving the week before the biggest stream of the year.
What it does
Live video that doesn't punish the audience
Low-latency live with multi-quality playback and automatic VOD archiving. The target is the chat and the stream feeling simultaneous to the viewer, not the four-to-twelve-second lag most live video settles for. The recording stays in your account afterward, indexed and searchable, not buried in a separate creator-studio subdomain you have to remember the URL of.
Money in one product, not seven bills
Subscriptions, ticketed events, tips, and payouts all run inside the same system as the video and the chat. Your bookkeeper looks at one dashboard, your accountant gets one set of statements, and the audience pays through one checkout that does not bounce them across three domains to complete a transaction.
A chat the show can actually use
Real-time chat with moderation that does not ask a volunteer to refresh the page every thirty seconds, event hooks for overlays and alerts, and a leaderboard that does not require duct-taping a third-party widget into your scene. The point is the room talking back to the show and the show talking back to the room. That is the entire job.
Your domain is the product
The show lives at the show's URL, not at a slug under our domain. Custom theme, custom pages, custom landing pages for ticketed events. When viewers tell their friends where to watch, they share your address, not ours, and the audience you build belongs to you.
Tools for the people running the show
Roles, permissions, schedule controls, moderation queues, refund flows, and the operator screens that most platforms treat as Phase Two. We treat them as Phase One because we have run shows ourselves and we know which screen the producer is staring at when the wheels come off.
Numbers that mean something
Engagement, revenue, retention, and playback health: the things an operator would actually use to decide what to do next week. Not a dashboard built to look impressive in a screenshot inside the funding deck of a company that has never run a show of its own.
Pricing and signup
The full pricing table and the per-minute calculator live on the product site at thirdcoast.tv. Storage and delivery are real costs paid to real vendors, and the calculator shows the math instead of hiding it behind a "Contact Sales" button and a thirty-day sales cycle.