The time is set in your browser's local time zone. Keep this page open on a "starting soon" scene in OBS as a Browser Source, and it will keep counting down live.
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The time is set in your browser's local time zone. Keep this page open on a "starting soon" scene in OBS as a Browser Source, and it will keep counting down live.
Viewers who show up before a stream starts are already interested — the risk is losing them in the gap between arriving and the stream actually beginning. A blank or static "starting soon" image leaves that gap feeling uncertain, since there's no way to tell how long the wait actually is. A live, ticking countdown replaces that uncertainty with a concrete number, which tends to keep people around rather than clicking away to check back later and possibly not returning at all. It's a small detail, but the difference between "soon" and "in 4 minutes" is the difference between an open-ended wait and one with a visible end.
Yes — "Copy OBS embed link" gives you a link showing just the countdown on a transparent background with no page chrome. It stays live: change the stream time, title, or colour here later and the same link updates automatically within a few seconds. The countdown itself counts down to the exact same real-world moment no matter what timezone the computer running OBS is set to, since the time is stored as an exact instant rather than a date and time that would need re-interpreting.
It shows "We're live now!" instead of the countdown numbers.
Yes — the countdown is calculated live based on the current time, so it needs to remain open (in your browser or as an OBS Browser Source) to keep updating.
No. Everything runs entirely locally in your browser — nothing is sent to a server.