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How to Go Live on YouTube with StreamYard
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Jun 2, 2024
In this video, you'll learn how to go live on YouTube using StreamYard, a powerful and user-friendly streaming platform. We'll guide you through the entire process, from setting up your StreamYard account to connecting it with your YouTube channel and customizing your live stream settings. Whether you're hosting a Q&A, a webinar, or a live event, this tutorial will show you how to leverage StreamYard's features to enhance your broadcast and engage with your audience in real time. Get ready to start streaming like a pro with StreamYard!
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Today I'm going to show you how to go live on YouTube using StreamYard
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So doing live streams on YouTube can be an amazing way for you to interact more with your audience
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and also rack up a ton of watch time for your channel. On our other channel we've been going
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live every week for all of 2021 and it's been a great way for us to interact with our audience
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and the replays of those live streams tend to do pretty well because they have long
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average view durations. We did one live stream in November of last year that currently has 20
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some thousand views and over 4000 hours of watch time. So that one live stream basically racked up
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enough watch time to monetize a YouTube channel. So this isn't maybe something to do if you have
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10 subscribers but if you have a few hundred subscribers, you're looking to monetize your
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channel, checking out live streams could be an interesting way for you to grow your channel and
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gain more watch time. So what I want to do in this video is create an account with StreamYard
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connect it with our YouTube channel, schedule a first live and then actually go live on YouTube
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so you can see that entire process from start to finish. Just follow along and then you'll be ready
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to create your first live for your channel as well. So let's get started. Okay so here I am at
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StreamYard.com. Let's enter my email address to get started. Okay so it just sent me a six digit
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code to my email. All right let's copy this. Go to StreamYard and this is normally how you're
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going to log into StreamYard. You don't actually have a password. You're going to be notified when
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you want to log in and have to put in a six digit code. Okay here we go. Welcome to StreamYard
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Onward. Okay so the very first thing it's asking me to do is add a destination. So as you can see
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here you could add a Facebook page, Facebook group, Facebook profile, LinkedIn page, event profile
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Twitch, YouTube, Periscope. So we want to add a YouTube channel today. Choose the email address
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Choose which of your channels. So the Figco. StreamYard wants to access your Google account
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Allow. And your YouTube channel was connected. You're all set. Okay so we're all good to go with
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that right now. And so the next thing would be to create a broadcast. Okay so let's create a broadcast
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and then so what you can do here. So you could just record something. So if you wanted to create
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a presentation, record it and then use that for YouTube or something later. You could skip the
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broadcast connection to your YouTube channel or Facebook or whatever and just record. But we
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actually want to create a live stream. So my first live stream. You could add the description here
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that would then show up in your YouTube video. But we're going to actually open this up within
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YouTube in a second and I'll show you some of the other things that you're going to want to add. So
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the description. So with the privacy right here. So you could actually go live right now. Have it
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go public and start transmitting on your YouTube channel. What we like to do is actually notify
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people a couple hours or even 24 hours beforehand. So if you schedule this for later and put it public
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people are going to be notified that you're going live in an hour in five hours whatever it is and
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they can set a reminder. And it's kind of free advertising on YouTube for this to show up on the
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home page of YouTube for example. So actually right now tomorrow afternoon we're going to go live on
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our Spanish channel. So if I go to YouTube right now what you're going to see is here's our Spanish
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channel question and answer with Laura my business partner at 1 p.m. Eastern. So you can see here we
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scheduled this ahead of time and we're essentially showing up to our subscribers on the YouTube home
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page so they know hey we're going to be live at this time tomorrow. So that's why we end up
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scheduling it ahead of time. But you could actually just go live right now. Being that I don't want to
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notify anyone and I want to change some other stuff before it's public I could either click on
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unlisted if I want to share the link with somebody share a link with my colleagues or something like
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that or I could just mark it as private. So I'm going to choose unlisted schedule for later and
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then here essentially the same thing as YouTube you want to like you can see from YouTube what I
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was just showing you we created this thumbnail ahead of time so that it doesn't just show some
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random logo from our channel or something like that it's talking about the live stream thumbnail
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is basically pitching people to watch this tomorrow. So you're going to want to create a
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thumbnail just like any of your other YouTube videos and upload it here within StreamYard
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And then so what time do we want to go live so it's 9 30 right now let's say we want to go live
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at 10 p.m. so in 20 some minutes and then so you can see we have the title description will be
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blank for now it's unlisted right now we're not going to add a thumbnail but for yours you're
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going to want to do this and then schedule the start time there click on create broadcast and
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we have our first scheduled broadcast for our YouTube channel. So to add everything else you
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would for a normal video we're going to actually go into YouTube Studio and I'll show you how to
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do that. So if you're in the YouTube Studio you know it's obviously going to look something like this if you click on content and then click on live there we go I had to hit refresh so you can
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see here with no thumbnail it's just pulling in our YouTube banner. So what we're going to want
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to do now is if you click on the live control room you can see from here so I want to schedule
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a stream for a later time so start streaming software okay anyways it lets me get into this
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So what I can do here is if I were to click on this there's some other things that I can go in
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and change so the video is unlisted no description you know what is the actual type of video whatever
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you normally put I think ours are usually how to and style the time our videos are not made for kids
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and here and a couple of other places from StreamYard you're not turning on monetization you
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need to do that within YouTube Studio so monetization on save and then let's see if there's
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anything else that we need to do on this page I think we're all set. So what we're going to want
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to do is get out of this kind of live streaming piece of YouTube Studio and then to go back to
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the normal just YouTube Studio and then so here if you click on details within the live stream
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so this is probably where I would go and fill in all of the description again here's an option to
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add the thumbnail this is pretty similar to just any other video you could add it to a playlist
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here's again as the is it made for kids or not and then you could go through and create a bunch
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of tags like you would for any other video so you can see that those are essentially the
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the settings that you would want to set up before you actually go live so that way YouTube has a
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really good idea what the video is going to be about and then when you go live and for the replay
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it already has all the information it can go out and find other people to show the replay of your
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live stream too. Okay so that's basically what you need to do pre-live stream then from there so what
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I would want to do is at somewhere in here if I want this to actually show up like what I just
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showed you for the Spanish one I would change the visibility from unlisted to public and then save
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these changes but for right now this is just going to be an unlisted live stream so you can kind of
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follow along and see how everything works. So the next thing to do here so we're all set within
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YouTube Studio I could go back to StreamYard and then what you can see here so I have this
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scheduled it was created at 9 33 scheduled for 10 p.m. and then I'm ready to start getting into
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the live stream so what I could do here is just click on enter broadcast studio and it's going to
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bring me into the live stream so when you come to this screen what you can do is you can change
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your display name so do I want to say JJ Jeff whatever let's leave it at JJ I can mute my
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microphone if I wanted to I could stop the camera there is some mic and camera settings that you can
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adjust from right here so we're using this webcam there's some advanced features so what resolution
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do you want to be streaming at and so I would recommend I'm not sure what the free version I'm
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on a free trial right now the free version might not be 720p if you use their highest plan which
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is I think $39 a month you can actually live stream in 1080p if that's something important
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is the quality of your videos that might be something worth checking out and so let's say
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720p the audio it is using the same the camera microphone green screen so you can add a green
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screen but it does use up computer resources so you know make sure that you have the bandwidth
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essentially to do it with all that set all of my settings are good to go I can click on enter
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broadcast studio so what you're going to see here is essentially I'm down in the bottom corner right
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now now I'm not being shown at all so you're not part of the stream yet click add to add your audio
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and video and so what I basically need to do is there's nothing up here right now so there's a
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couple things I can do if I just click add to stream then here I am you know on the main stream
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and then so this is essentially backstage right now so if I'm ready to actually go live you can
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see up here is where you would go live at we can deal with that in just a second so right now this
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would be the audio is coming through on the stream but the stream is not being pushed to
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YouTube so I just want to go through right now all the options that you have available to you
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so again what you can do here is you have mute that you can turn off your camera what I can do
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here is share my screen so one of the things here is before you start the live stream you can get
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what you want to share set up and ready to go so if I go to share you can share a video file we'll
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get into that in a second but I think it's up to a hundred megabytes and no longer than five minutes
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you could show a YouTube video or something else if you wanted to so I could say share a screen
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that's like it's easy if you have two monitors I just have one right now having a good computer
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and then there's another option of some screens let you share audio so if you wanted to actually
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play a YouTube video you would want to share audio so what we can do here is my entire screen
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and application window or say a chrome tab so I have a couple of tabs open in chrome right now
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let's say I want to open up our YouTube channel so I could click on this and you see the little
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button right here that says share audio so this audio is going to be then streamed to people who
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are watching the live stream on YouTube so if I wanted to click that I could then click share
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and so you can see up at the top now it says sharing this tab to streamyard.com and then I
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could go back to streamyard and you can see that it already added this on screen and so if I want
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to change the dimensions of this at all if I want to get rid of my camera I can click on this option
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if I wanted to be larger on screen with this showing up smaller I could do that like so
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and if I want it what I can do now is if I click on remove so I have this this here basically in
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the wings ready to go so I can start talking do my live stream I don't have to fumble with
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finding how to share something it's just right there add to screen good to go so before we
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actually publish this I want to show you basically all the other options that you have available so
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these are the comments so this is actually going to pull in the comments the chat that you're
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getting from YouTube while you're live the next thing down below are banners so you could just
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click on this to show and you can see this an example banner you know I can go hide it the
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same thing here I can create one and so I can actually have it scroll across the bottom as a
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ticker so hello I am a banner add banner and then if I click on it to show you can see it's going to
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look something like that then you know to undo that I'm just going to click here moving down
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further you have your branding so you can add you know your main brand color that you can see is
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pulling down here with my name then you can choose from four different themes so you have default
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minimal looks like this bubble or block I think I like the bubble one if you're on a free plan
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this is always going to show up I'm on a free trial right now so I could actually do a live
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stream without the StreamYard logo but if you're on the free plan basically this is going to be
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showing up in the core corner of your screen for your live streams we can turn that off for now
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and then you can set up overlays if you want your logo or text or other things on screen
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you can essentially set up something like this so this is going to be you know shown throughout
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your your live stream then the next thing is here's where you could essentially upload video
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clips beforehand and let them play so something that would be a good idea to do for the very
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beginning of your live a lot of times is to have people come in know how much longer that they have
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to wait before you go live and then just start off as if you would start a normal YouTube video
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so you could just add this video and then so what's going to happen here is I am on mute you
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can see if you look at the screen down here that I'm muted I can unmute it but this video is playing
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at the moment so again anything if you basically click on the second time it's going to get rid of
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brings me back unmutes me and then you know my audio is here again the other thing that you're
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going to see is a background so if you want a background that's going to show up in a couple
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of different options so on some of these options where the videos and things do not take up the
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entire screen this background is going to be basically shown around it so if I were to choose
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this background and then I were to remove myself you're going to see the leaf background and then
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if I were to go and choose say if I turn myself back on add to stream and then if I were to choose
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say this option and add this to the stream you can see the outlines of the leaf design
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right here again let's remove that from the stream let's go back to this okay so let's say
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right now is the time to actually go live on YouTube what I'm going to do here is click
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on go live okay you aren't scheduled until 10 p.m. but you're welcome to start early so all right
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let's go live and then so I am now broadcasting live on YouTube this video is unlisted though so
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the only people that would access this are people that you know have the actual link to the live
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stream so what I could do now let's see I'll just I'll open up the live stream on say my personal
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YouTube and then okay so as you can see right now I am up on the live stream on as an unlisted
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video on YouTube now a live chat so so I can actually let me let me show you what it looks
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like let's go back to closing out of the branding and then let's go to comments so I have my
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colleagues come in and adding some comments this is from from my personal YouTube I'll add a comment
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as well okay so you can see that there are some comments starting to come in there the other thing
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that you can do is if you the same thing we did with the banner earlier I could actually bring up
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this comment and it's going to show up here so each one of these is going to have a slightly
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different format so if you remember before we chose the branding for bubble if I chose minimal
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it's going to come in and look like this going back to chat so I can show my comment up here if
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I click on it again it's going to hide this comment so the next thing I want to do is show
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you how to invite someone else to your live stream so what you can do here just click on the invite
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button copy to clipboard and then you can just essentially send this link to anybody else so
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being that I'm doing this by myself at about 10 o'clock at night I'm just going to add myself
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on this live stream so you can see here what I'm doing now is adding myself from my iPhone
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and you can see that I show up right here so what I could do now is I could add this add myself to
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the stream and you can see you know here I am right now talking to my phone camera and so I can
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take the other person off the stream I can come with a couple of different ways to like how do I
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want to display this so if we want to bring up this stream and then if I want to add camera two
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it's going to look something like this if I wanted to show the two of us so there's two
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different options here you can see this has the leaf background that I showed you earlier
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or this option would be zoomed in slightly more so you have this fills up much more of the screen
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in this view this one you have a full width video for you know every person that's connected or here
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if we wanted to show some type of presentation or something that we were all looking at together so
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you know if I wanted to go through and change this I could remove this screen share if I wanted to go
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back to stop sharing then I can go to share share screen share again chrome tab and let's say I
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wanted to go through our master class so if I want to go through a presentation you know you and a
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guest want to go through a presentation you could do that like so here again just the two of us
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okay so for example if I wanted to take the other guest off hey you know thanks for joining us we'll
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see you later I can then you know remove them from the live stream that I can from there
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essentially kick them off of the stream so I'm I can ban myself if I chose to or just say kick
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from studio kick guest and it's just back to me by myself on the live stream again and so the other
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thing here so you see the different comments here one of the other things that you can do so you
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have this private chat here so if me and Jeff to want to have a conversation together we can write
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back and forth in the private chat here where the comments are essentially what is going to show up
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on the YouTube channel so I can post a comment to the actual live stream on YouTube by writing right
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here and then this is just for the participants of the live stream and then from here again you
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have the settings if there's anything that needs to be changed so the camera the audio green screen
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and the guest guest sees viewers comments on play sound when guests enter guests must
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authenticate okay so when I'm done so I'm done with the live what I can essentially do
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is click on end broadcast here and broadcast has ended how did it go good or bad let's say that it went well and then if I'm all
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done here I can obviously just click on leave studio and we are finished okay so one other
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thing I want to show you in StreamYard is the pricing so you can see the pricing tab down here
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so here are the three different plans they have you can pay either monthly or annually so the free
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plan you can screen share have banners on screen comments you can have up to six participants
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have your brand color green screen the StreamYard branding will be on your streams and then there
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are streaming limits of 20 hours per month if you upgrade then you get you can take off the
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branding you can have unlimited streaming up to 10 guests you can add your logo and then you can
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actually record four hours of the stream and then the the the professional one that I mentioned I
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think earlier on is you can record up to eight hours you can actually send your live stream to
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eight different destinations where here was three so you know different YouTube channels LinkedIn
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Facebook you know wherever you want and then you get the 1080p streaming with that plan ready to go
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live on YouTube to grow your channel if not don't worry we have tons of other tips for you to help
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you grow your channel I'll link to our playlist along the side right here hope to see you in those
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and other videos bye-bye
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