Hello, my YouTube friends.
Today, I want to show you how you can go live on YouTube with nothing
but your cell phone, Android or iPhone.
Doesn't really matter.
And no, this is not my phone.
It's just the one I have in my hand right now.
And if you don't have a thousand subs, it's okay.
There is a solution for you as well.
And you can even add alerts to your live stream.
It's really easy.
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I spend a lot of time on this channel showing you how to create fancy
overlays, stingers, epic camera effects, and produce complicated
streams.
But there is something to be said about keeping it simple.
None of the fancy stuff is going to make a great stream if you aren't
entertaining.
And that's a skill that can take a lot of time to learn.
Streaming on your phone, takes all the complexity out of it.
You can go live from anywhere and just have a conversation with your
audience.
Now that's how I started.
And it's a great way to learn the first way I'm going to show you is
definitely the easiest it's directly through the YouTube app.
Here we are in the YouTube app.
And what we're going to do is click this plus down in the bottom
center, and we're going to go to go live and we're just going to
create a stream here.
So we'll put a title in there.
We'll just call this test.
And then we're going to select whether we want it public or unlisted.
In this case, we want it unlisted.
And we can just scroll down here and click on more options if we like,
and we want to schedule this for later and we can go into advanced
settings and we can change these settings up if we want, if we have
paid promotion or anything like that, we can enable monetization.
We can do all of these things right in the app.
And to get out of advanced settings, we just click this arrow in the
top left, and then we can click next right here and we can create a
thumbnail.
And there we go.
Or you can click on edit and retake the thumbnail, and then we can
click done.
And now we're just going to exit out of our live stream and we'll
click go live again.
And if we go in here up at the top, you could see the little one next
to the calendar.
We can go in there and we can see our live stream all set up.
So the next thing I'm going to do is go into our computer and find our
live stream under the live tab.
And we can go in here and we can edit everything.
We're going to put our description in here.
We can change the thumbnail to get a better thumbnail.
We can add it to a playlist.
We can add tags to our live stream, do all of the things that we would
normally do on a regular video, which is really important.
You want to treat your live streams as if they're real videos.
So whenever it's time to actually go live, all you have to do is click
this little plus down here at the bottom and click go live, and then
we'll click on the calendar and we'll select our test live stream.
And then we just click go live and it wants it to be in landscape, of
course.
And there we go.
So now we are live this button over here on the far left will change
it from the front camera to the rear camera.
You can get to your chat by clicking on here.
It tells you what type of chat you may want to see.
So you can change that up.
And then we have all of these really cool filters that we can put on
our live stream.
And I'll just kind of go through them and show you what we have.
There are a lot of really neat ones in here, and you can see what
effect it has on our imaging and the background and all that stuff.
I really like these, some of these are really pretty cool and it at
least gives you a little bit of neat stuff that you can do even on
your phone during a live stream.
And there are quite a few here.
We'll go through all of them so that you can get a good look at what
these look like.
And you can just double-click them to turn them off.
And the three dots over here on the right, allow you to save a
highlight or share the stream or mute your microphone.
And once you're finished live streaming, you just click this X in the
top right-hand corner and end the stream.
And there you go.
It gives you your important information from your stream.
You just click done and you can see right here that it uploads the
full HD copy of the live stream.
And once that's done, your live stream will be all ready to go on
YouTube so that anyone can view the replay.
And that's it.
It's really easy to go live using the YouTube app.
The next way I want to show you will allow you to use your cell phone
to stream even without a thousand subscribers.
It's also going to allow you to add alerts and widgets and other
streaming accents.
The first thing we're going to do is go into YouTube's studio, live
streaming segment on a computer, and we're going to click in the top
right-hand corner, schedule a stream, and then we're going to create a
new one.
And we're just going to go through and create this stream.
So we add the stream name and we add our description, make sure the
description actually describes what you're going to be talking about
in your live stream of course, now we're going to scroll down and
we're going to add a thumbnail and you can select a playlist.
And then we're going to select show more here you can allow automatic
chapters.
You can change your tags for the video, and we're going to click next.
You can add monetization.
And then next, this has to do with what a sort of chat you allow, and
then visibility.
You can set this up.
So it's listed on listed members only, or public, however you want it
set your time and date and click done.
So now when we go over here to the left hand side and we click this
little arrow, we can go into manage and we can see our live stream is
scheduled.
So next we want to go into our phone.
And if you haven't downloaded the Streamlabs app, go ahead to the app
store and download it.
And once you get it on your phone, this is what you're going to see.
You can select stream your camera or stream your games.
And once you select one of those, you just click next.
Now you could go with default or custom as your layout.
And if we go with custom, this is what we get.
We have an alert box and a jar.
And if we hover over these, we get the little three bars and we can
select different things.
We can lock the layers and all that kind of stuff if we like, if we go
up to pre-made layouts, we can select landscape or portrait and apply
one of these layouts.
And this gives us a little bit of a different layout.
So we can go ahead up into layers and we can remove any of these that
we want.
Or we can add a layer.
If we select, add a widget, we can add all kinds of things from alert
boxes to chat boxes, event lists a donation ticker.
You can add the jar pretty much anything that you can set up on
Streamlabs you can add Streamlabs graphics here as well.
You can add stream labels or a custom item.
So if we go back out of here, we can select any of these elements and
move them around on the screen if we like, and we can click these
three dots and we can delete any of these elements.
So let's delete these.
And if we go into layers, we can see just the chat box exists.
So we can go and add a widget and we'll add a simple alert box.
There we go.
We'll move this to wherever we want it.
And we'll click that plus again, and we'll add a widget and we'll add
the jar and we'll put it back down here.
So now we have the alert box and the jar, as well as the chat box down
there in the bottom left.
If we click add a stream labs graphic, you can see that there are
graphics.
You can add to the screen to put stream labels on.
And that sort of thing if you wanted to spend the time to do this
pretty cool stuff, and you can add a stream label as well.
So once we save out of this, it goes to this screen right here, and
you just have to click continue on the privacy settings and allow, and
you can enable notifications or disable them if you like.
And then it brings us up to the camera.
And if we click on this hamburger bar up here in the top left, it will
bring up the account settings where you can turn support on or off.
Or if we just click go live, it brings this menu up.
We can select the account we want to connect to in this case, YouTube.
And we just need to put in our sign in information.
Once you're signed in, you're going to get this screen right here.
All you have to do is click go live.
And if you select YouTube, which is what we signed up for, we can
select YouTube again, and we can go to upcoming event and we see our
test event.
We can just select that and click next.
And we can just approve our description and click go live.
After a few moments, it comes up and it says, it's connecting now over
on the left-hand side, you can see the flip camera button and it will
choose the other camera right next to that, you have your mute button
and to the right of that under the jar, we have the chat button where
we can type things into chat, and then all the way on the right, we
have the event list button.
And this allows you to reset the jar.
See what sort of alerts you may have missed adjust the volumes and
that sort of thing.
And if I go and I trigger an event, you can see that our alerts are
working.
It tells me that someone donated and it drops coins in the jar.
Everything works great.
Now, the only thing that you might notice is the frames per second and
the kilobits per second, up at the top, aren't very good.
And I suspected this all has to do with the nature of my horrible
network connection at the time I have used this in the past, and I
didn't really have any problems with it connecting or getting a
reasonably decent frame rate.
So I just suspect that it was my local network that was causing the
problems.
But again, your mileage may vary.
So you should probably test all of these things before you actually go
live.
But the Streamlabs tool for your phone is a really awesome tool.
And of course it allows you to get around that thousand subscriber
thing to stream on your phone as well.
Now that's pretty easy.
If you want to see how to set up widgets in Streamlabs, you should
check this video out.
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