In all our time in streaming and content creation, we’ve never heard of anyone having this issue.

However, GIFs in alert boxes are pretty much NEVER flagged up. Technically, ANY images you use in your streams or content should be copyright-free. The only issue here is that none of these images will be copyright-free. Now, anything you search on Google will provide you with a GIF image file. Head over to google, click images, and filter by ‘type’ at the top of the page. Using Google image search will help you find a plethora of GIFs. Click ‘OK’ and your Alertbox is ready to go.Īt this point, your Alertboxes will work, but they’ll pop up with default GIFs, and let’s face it, you don’t want your stream to look like every other average Joe’s! Let’s find some original images to make your Alertbox pop!.In the next menu, paste the copied URL from your streamlabs dashboard into the ‘URL’ line.Under the sources list choose ‘Browser’.In the ‘sources’ dock click the ‘+’ button to add a new source.On the ‘Widget URL’ line, click the ‘Copy’ button.Once logged in, click ‘Alertbox’ on the left hand side, under the tab ‘Stream Essentials’.Go to and log in with your streaming account.To access this, you’ll need to log into your Streamlabs dashboard and go from there: Instead of having an in-built Alertbox feature, OBS Studio relies on a live browser source to capture the alerts from a specific internet address. If you try to follow the above steps, you’ll find that you get a bit stumped around step number 3 there is no ‘Alertbox’ source in OBS Studio!

Installing an Alertbox in OBS Studio is decisively trickier than with its partner program.