A webinar alternative to StreamYard for the travel trade
StreamYard is a studio for producing a live show. Reconnect is a webinar room for teaching a trade audience: people register, ask and vote on questions, follow in their own language, and you know afterwards who came.
StreamYard is a browser-based live streaming studio that many creators and businesses use to produce shows and webinars.
What is RepBud Reconnect?
StreamYard is very good at what a studio is for: making a live stream look like a programme. Reconnect starts from a different job. A rep, a tourism board or a DMC wants a room of travel agents and tour operators to learn a destination or a product, to ask what they need to ask, and to be followed up afterwards.
For a webinar, Reconnect takes up to 300 attendees on First Class and Charter in the browser, with nothing for them to install: a registration page with your own questions, a stage you control with a backstage for guest speakers, a co-host, voted and anonymous Q&A, polls, live translation in ten languages, a video replay, livestreaming to YouTube, LinkedIn or Facebook, and follow-up emails with attendance downloads afterwards.
The session does not end when the stream does. People who came and people who missed it get different emails in your words, the registrants and attendance download as spreadsheets, and an intelligent recap is drafted and delivered to The Lantern, RepBud’s review queue, beside the rest of your client work. Webinars are included with Business Class and above, with no separate webinar licence and no charge per attendee.
What it brings to your day
Built around the audience, and what happens after
Q&A the audience votes on
A dedicated question list: attendees ask by name or anonymously, vote the best ones up with one vote each, and latecomers see the questions so far. You mark each answered, or hide it.
Captions and translation
Live captions as the speakers talk, with captions, chat and questions translated for each viewer in ten languages, and the translation read aloud if they prefer.
Registration to follow-up
A registration page with up to three questions of your own, reminders in each person’s time zone, then separate emails for those who attended and those who missed it, with the replay.
Know who came
Download registrants with their answers, attendance with the minutes each person stayed, and the questions and poll results. The notes are filed in the CRM your client work already lives in.
When is StreamYard the better choice?
Reconnect is a webinar and meeting room, not a broadcast studio. It has a backstage, three layouts, name tags and your logo on stage, but no custom overlays, tickers or animated graphics, no pre-recorded sessions played as live, no separate recording per speaker, and it streams out to three destinations at most. Attendee limits are 50 on Business Class and 300 on First Class and Charter, and sessions run for up to three hours. If you are producing a show, a designed live stream going out to many channels at once, StreamYard is built for that and is the better fit. Some teams use a studio for the show and Reconnect for the trade webinar where registration, questions and the follow-up matter.
Frequently Asked Questions
Questions people ask us
Do my guests need an account or an app?+
No. Guests join from a link in the browser with nothing to install and no account to create. They give a name and email at the door, so you know who actually attended — which matters when the attendee list becomes CRM records afterwards.
Can I run a webinar for the trade, not just a meeting?+
Yes. A Reconnect webinar takes up to 300 attendees on First Class and Charter, and 50 on Business Class, for up to three hours. It has a registration page with your own questions, reminders, a backstage where guest speakers wait until you put them on stage, a co-host, Q&A the audience votes on and you can review, polls, live translation in ten languages, a video replay, livestreaming to up to three places, and separate follow-up emails for people who came and people who missed it. Registrants, attendance and a transcript download afterwards, and the notes reach your CRM.
Can I still stream to YouTube, LinkedIn or Facebook?+
Yes, on First Class and Charter. Add up to three destinations in the webinar’s settings, each with its stream address and key, and press Stream out once you are live. People watching there see the stage; registration, Q&A and the attendance report stay with the people who joined in RepBud.
Can guest speakers join without an account?+
Yes. Each webinar has a speaker link. Whoever opens it checks their camera and microphone in the browser and joins you backstage, with nothing to install, and you put them on stage when you are ready. Speakers and a co-host do not use attendee seats.
Can guests follow along in another language?+
Yes. Reconnect offers live captions, translated chat and Q&A, and spoken translation across ten languages — English, Mandarin, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, Hindi and Swahili. It helps a mixed-market roadshow follow along; it is assistive translation rather than a substitute for a professional interpreter on a high-stakes negotiation.
What happens to the meeting afterwards?+
The session is recorded and transcribed, and an intelligent recap is drafted — who attended, what they asked for, the next step. It is delivered to The Lantern, RepBud's review queue, which matches it to the right contact and company. You approve it before anything is filed, so the record is yours rather than the machine's.
Have a look for yourself
Reconnect is included with Business Class and above — branded rooms, a waiting room you control, and a recap that files itself against the right contact. Try Business Class or First Class free for 14 days to put it to work.
Start free →StreamYard is a trademark of its respective owner and is not affiliated with, or endorsing, RepBud. This page describes RepBud and is based on publicly available information as of July 2026; it makes no representations about StreamYard’s current features or pricing. Both are good tools built by people who care about their craft — please compare them against your own needs before deciding. RepBud is designed to assist, not replace, your professional judgement.