- Here's how to live stream
on YouTube for beginners. We're gonna run through
the easiest way to go live on YouTube and then we're gonna work
our way up to some more advanced live streaming software options to help you start live streaming
on YouTube, like a pro. Now I'm gonna cover off on both desktop and mobile live streaming options here and make sure you stick around because I'm also gonna
be sharing throughout some amazing tools and tips and things to help you level up your live streams. So we're gonna start off by
looking at the most basic and the easiest ways to
go live on YouTube first. So I'll show you the
method on desktop first and we'll jump into mobile straight after. Now, I'm showing you on a Mac but the process is exactly the same on PC. Now, the first thing you
need to do is make sure that you do have live streaming
enabled on your channel. So you wanna click on your profile picture in the top right hand corner, come down to YouTube Studio, come down to Settings, then to Channel. Let's go to Feature Eligibility and you wanna make sure that
you've verified your channel which is this bottom section
here. So if we click on this, we can see that because
our channel is verified, we have access to live streaming. So if your channel isn't verified yet, there will be a button over here for you to verify your channel. With that out of the way,
we can close that out. We just wanna come up
the top here to create and then we can choose Go Live. So if we just wanna go live right now, then we come over here to Webcam. We give it permission to access our webcam and our microphone, and we can see in the background that it is pulling in our webcam feed. From here, we want to give our
YouTube live stream a title and a description. We can then upload a thumbnail image just as you would with
a regular YouTube video. So I would recommend
that you are doing that. So we can click on this, go ahead and find our
thumbnail image and hit Open. We can add our live stream
to a playlist if we'd like. And we also need to specify here if our live stream is made for kids. So you've just got a yes
or no down the bottom here. So we're gonna leave this as no. Now you probably find that
a lot of these settings are just fine as default, but if you want access
to a lot more settings, then you'll click this
Show More button down here and we can tag this live
stream as a paid promotion, we can have automatic
chapter markers added, automatic place mentions
added to the video as well, along with tags, languages, and a lot of the other
settings that you would have for a regular YouTube video too. Again, a lot of these is
their default settings are going to be fine. From here, you wanna click Next and that's gonna take us
across here to monetization. So if you are part of the
YouTube partner program and you can monetize your content, you can turn that on or off in here too. I'm gonna leave this one as off. The next one over is customization and here we can turn on and off Live chat, access to the Live chat replay, we can control who can
actually send messages while you're live, anyone
or just your subscribers. We can also set a delay on
how long people need to wait between adding comments
to your live stream too. And if we come across and go Next again then this is our visibility. So whether our live stream
here is gonna be a private one, Unlisted, Members only if you're running YouTube
channel memberships, or if it's gonna be public for everyone on your channel to see. So for most people, I'd imagine you wanna set your
live streams here to public but for the purposes of this video here, I'm gonna set this one to private and we can also schedule
our live stream here too. So it's gonna default to the current date and time as if you want
to go live right now, but if you do wanna schedule
this for a time in the future, then you can pick the day and
time and lock it in that way. I'm just gonna go ahead and click on Done. That's gonna create our private
live stream in this case and this is now where we
can preview our stream. So if we wanna make changes to any of those settings that we just applied, we can hit on Edit, and it's gonna take us back
to all of those options. We can change out the
thumbnail here as well but we can also see how many
viewers are currently watching or awaiting to watch your
live stream when you start it, how many likes you've got, and if there's been any revenue from super chats or super
stickers in your stream already. So from here, you wanna
choose your webcam. I'm gonna go ahead and choose a C922 here. We can choose the microphone, which I will choose the C922 as well so not to mess up the screen recording. We can hit Share to grab a shareable link that we can send out. This is our link here. We can hit on here to copy this. We can then share that out
to let our audience know that we are going live. Gonna hit Close on that. All we need to do now is hit on Go Live down here and we are going live. (claps) It's a private stream. You can see it takes a few
seconds here to actually start. And then we are live. Now you will be live from the moment that it says you are live. So a lot of people, we
sort of see pause and wait. No, no, when it says you're live, just go, treat it as if you're live, even if you're not
seeing anything happening in the chat or anything just yet. So on the side over
here, we've got our chat. This is where all the comments and everything will come through. We can adjust this to be sorted by the Top comments or Top chat or Live. I personally like to have it on live so I can see everything
that's happening in real time. If I wanna add a comment or message back, I can respond down the bottom here. And I also have the ability
to add a reaction or an emoji and also create a poll as
well to survey your audience while you're live. So we can see at any
point that we are live with the LIVE marker in
the top left hand corner. We can see how long we've been live for. We can also see how many
people are currently watching our stream and how many thumbs up we have been given. Down the bottom here, you've got your volume level indicator. We've got the ability
to mute your microphone by pressing on this one. This next one here,
Share, will get us, again, that shareable link that we can send out. And when we're all done, I
wanna close out the stream. We can just come down here to End Stream. It's gonna ask us to confirm that we actually do
want to end our stream. We can hit End and the stream will finish. And this is where you're presented with some analytics from your stream with a number of views, the
peak concurrent viewers, so the total number of
people that were watching at any given point, how much watch time this owned
for your channel duration, and so on. Now, the process for live
streaming on your mobile is very, very similar, but
there are some requirements or restrictions that you will need to meet that you don't need to meet on desktop. So if we scroll down here,
this is YouTube's article and what those requirements are. To live stream on mobile, you need to have 50
subscribers on your channel and no live streaming restrictions
that have been applied to your channel in the last 90 days. Again, you need to verify your channel, which I took you through
the process to do that showing you on desktop, so the process is exactly the same here and you also might need to wait 24 hours before you can start
your first live stream, meaning that when you go
through what I'm gonna show you here the very first time, it actually won't let you hit Go Live. It's gonna make you wait 24
hours as a security thing so that people just aren't
creating random accounts, I guess buying subscribers
and then just going live. But it's also worth noting, if we come a little bit further down, if you have under 1000
subscribers on your channel to help keep YouTube a safe community for everyone, they may limit the number of viewers on your mobile live stream. So again, not a deal breaker but something that you
need to be aware of. There's also a workaround for this which I'll be sharing
with you very, very soon. Okay, so over on your phone
and this process is the same whether you're on iOS or Android, you wanna open up the YouTube app. Come down to the bottom
middle to that + button and hit Go live. Here we go. We're on camera. Now in here, again, we can
add a title, test stream. We can choose if our video
is going to be unlisted or public in here. I'm gonna go unlisted. Again, it's asking us, "Is
this video made for kids?" No, this video is not made for kids, and no, I don't wanna restrict
my video to viewers over 18. Obviously you can touch on these to make any adjustments
here to those settings. Again, under more options, if we scroll down for this, we can schedule this live stream up here for later, or under Advanced settings, we can turn on or off the chat. We can also specify if this
video is a paid promotion or includes a paid promotion, and we can also enable and
disable monetization up here too. So we'll go back here and come down the bottom
here and hit Next. Now, this is where it's gonna prompt us to take a thumbnail image. So we're gonna rotate my phone. Here we go. Okay, so we now have a thumbnail image. If you wanna retake that or edit that then you can tap on
the little pencil there and we can upload our own
thumbnail image in here too. So I'm gonna select out of that. Now, it's really important here that you need to choose
whether you're gonna go live in portrait or in landscape
here at this point, because whichever way you leave it, is the way that's gonna be
for the entire live stream. So choose this one wisely. I'd recommend for most people, that you're gonna be doing
it in landscape like this. Now just for the controls
that we've got access to right now, we can switch the camera from the front camera to the back camera, and we can also hit Share to
copy a link to our live stream that we can then share
out before we go live. So I'm gonna go ahead now and
press Go live and we are live. So that was actually a little
bit quicker than on desktop. So down at the bottom again,
we can switch our camera. You can see my screen behind me. We can sort the comments
here to show the top chat, the live messages, and
super chats on here as well. If we hit the little magic wand, we can bring up some
filters and things in here. Let's back out of that. And then under the three
dots down the bottom right, we can save a highlight. We can Share our video again
to grab that shareable link and we can mute our microphone. So I'm gonna go cancel out of this. And again, at the top corner here, we can see that we are live,
been live for 59 seconds. There's currently zero people watching and we have zero thumbs up. Joys of doing an unlisted video. All right, so when you're done and you wanna wrap up your
stream and close it out, you wanna hit the X up
in the top corner here, and we can end our stream. It's gonna give us some basic
analytics again, with views, number of viewers, how long
we've live for, et cetera. We can press on DONE. And it's automatically going now, and it is uploading an HD or a high quality version
of our live stream. And once that's done that
video is then gonna be live on our channel. Now, if you press the three little dots on the side of that video there, we have the ability to delete our upload, to cancel the high definition upload, or we can edit our video in here too. And again, change things like your title, the description, your
visibility, and so on. So that's the most basic way to go live on YouTube from your computer
or your mobile device. Now, for those of you
looking to step it up and add things like animated
titles, bring in guests, share your computer screen, or even connect multiple cameras, this is where some more professional live streaming software is
gonna allow you to do that. Now there's so many
different options out there when it comes to live streaming software for desktop and mobile, I will have links in the description below to help you decide which
is the best one for you. But to help you really
quickly, if you're on a Mac, my favorite live streaming
tool is Ecamm Live. It's a great mix for someone
who is a beginner right through to someone looking for a lot
more of the advanced features and controls without being overwhelmed. Or if you're on PC or Mac, too, then Streamyard is a great option and it will also work in
your phone browser as well, so it'll work on iOS and Android too. But these tools are really
gonna help you level up your live streams. So to show you how easy
and powerful this is, I'm over on Streamyard now. I'm just gonna go to Create a broadcast. We can choose where we
want to go live too, so I can pick our YouTube channel here. I can give it a title, a description. Again, I can choose if it's
public, unlisted, or private, but in here, I also get to choose if I want to go live to Facebook, to a page, a profile, or
a group as well as YouTube at the same time. So let's just go Test Stream and let's create our broadcast. Again, we wanna give it
permission to access our webcam and our microphone. We can then go Enter studio. So this is the Streamyard
live streaming dashboard. You can see already, you've got access to a lot more control and features in here than
you had on YouTube's end. It's telling us down the bottom, "You're not part of the stream yet. "Click to add your audio and video." So let's add this webcam
here to the stream, and then, Hey, I am on camera. So whatever we see in this area here, is what will actually be our live stream. So if we wanna do things
like add in a screen share, I can come down here to Share. I can choose Screen share. I can come over here to Brave which is our web browser
here, like Chrome. I can choose the YouTube tab. Let's hit Share and we can
see down at the bottom here, we've now got a video source
that we can add to the stream. If I click on this, we can now see my browser
window here as well. And what's amazing about this
is we've got these presets down the bottom here that
we can just click on, and change up our layout in
real time while we are live. So whether you wanna make it full screen, have yourself picture in
picture down the bottom, or even if you've brought a guest in here, then you can both be on screen and looking at the
computer screen as well. Now this is definitely not
a full Streamyard tutorial. We have tutorials for our top recommended live streaming tools and programs which I will link it
down in the description, but it's so easy in tools
like this to even bring up your viewer comments while you're live. So if we hit on this, we can feature this comment down below. We can easily bring up
banners and text and questions and things that we can have
to create a really effective, really engaging livestream. And they can easily add
graphics and watermarks. We could bring up a
Primal Video logo easily, like all just with the click of a button. We could bring up a countdown timer or play a video animation, even play some background
music in here as well. And this is really the
power of these more advanced live streaming tools. You get so much more customization, so much more control than you get just going
live with the YouTube tools. And again, in regards to Streamyard here, all of this that you're
seeing you can actually do on your mobile device as well. And this actually gets
you around the limitations that YouTube has for you
needing 50 subscribers, and it throttling the number
of viewers that you can have on your livestream for
a brand new channel. So not only is it gonna get
you around all of those things, it's also gonna give you
a far more customizable live stream too. And a lot of these tools
also make it really easy for you to add guests in. So we've got a little button
down the bottom here to invite. We can grab his link, we can share it out, and we can bring in other
people when we're live and we can change the view, change the way that it looks. Again, share computer screens, bring up graphics, titles, animations, and create really amazing live streams. And again, don't forget
to check out the links down in the description. We have got more advanced tutorials for the different live streaming tools but also videos to help you decide which is the best live
streaming tool for you. We've also got links to other resources to help you while you're live, like if you're looking for
the best places to find music while you're live, then
definitely check out Artlist, Epidemic Sound, and Creator Mix. If you're looking to create
animated graphics and titles, then check out Placeit and VideoHive. These days using tools
and services like this, it is so easy to create a
really professional live stream. You definitely don't
need to have a big team or a production company coming
to run all of this for you. You can do it yourself. Now, a couple of quick pro tips for you. Once you've finished your
live stream on YouTube, you can either leave it as
is and have all the comments and live reactions and
everything all intact. or you also have the
ability to edit it down, and you can do that
right on YouTube itself. So if you want to trim off
something from the start or take a section out of the middle, you have the ability to
open that YouTube editor, remove chunks or sections of your videos. It's not a full blown editor so you can't move things around, but you can easily trim down and remove stuff that you may not want in your finished video, that's then gonna live on as
a regular video on YouTube. But you do need to be aware that if you are trimming down your videos using the YouTube editor, you will lose the live comments for any of your live
streams that you edit. Pro tip number two is to run a speed test to check your internet
connection before you go live. If your internet is not up to scratch, you're likely gonna have
a pretty bad live stream with dropouts and issues and things which isn't good for you. It's gonna add a lot of stress, but it's also not gonna be
good for your viewers watching. So all you need to do is head
to the website speedtest.net or you can download the app, run a test, and it's gonna measure your download speed and your upload speed. So for live streaming, upload speed is really
what we're gonna be using, so you wanna make sure
that it is a consistent, stable connection, and not jumping, and bouncing all over the place. But also you want add an absolute minimum, around 2.5 to three megabits
per second, as a minimum. If you've got above that,
then you should be all good. But again, this is also gonna
come down to the quality of the live stream that
you are pushing out too. And for those of you
that are gonna be using the more advanced tools
like Ecamm Live, Streamyard, or any of the other ones out there, then I would strongly recommend that you grab something
like the Elgato Stream Deck. It's gonna make it so easy for
you to program everything up so that at a button press,
you can switch camera angles, bring up titles, show and hide
guests in your live streams, all without needing to learn
and remember keyboard shortcuts or needing to use your
mouse and click on stuff. It's a really easy way to help you create professional looking live streams literally having everything
at your fingertips. Now, if you wanna learn how you can make professional looking,
animated graphics and texts and animations to use in your live streams then check out the video linked on screen. You'll see just how easy it is. I'll see you in there.
