Unknown: So how do you schedule a YouTube livestream? We're
gonna find out in this video.
Hey everyone, Nick Palkowski here and on this channel, we
dive into all things videography, and live streaming.
So I want to jump into and talk to you how to actually schedule
a YouTube livestream. So why might first why might you want
to schedule a live stream? Well, one, this gives you a chance to
really promote a live streaming event right now, especially live
stream is a great way to interact and engage with your
audience members. And by scheduling that stream ahead of
time, you're going to be able to promote it in other ways, you
know, promote it on Facebook or Instagram, other social media
channels, plus YouTube is going to showcase your your thumbnail
in the normal subscription feed for that live stream and allow
people to actually set a reminder and then it'll remind
them on that exact time. So that's one of the reasons that
you're going to want to schedule your live stream just to kind of
get more promotion behind it. Also, live streaming is a great
way right now to engage and connect with your audience plus
YouTube. Their algorithm gives it a little bit of a nice little
bump right now, it's not a magic bullet by any means for the
algorithm, but it's going to, they're going to make sure to
add in a little bit of extra work to help you to help your
audience to help other people find your live video. So that's
one reason why I really think you should, that's another
reason why I think you should really consider live streaming.
So let's jump in and find out how to schedule that live
stream. So the first thing you need to do is log into your
YouTube account and then head over to the YouTube studio. Once
you're there, you're gonna see there's a few different ways you
can find out how to schedule it but right here, we're going to
find the Create button, or we're also going to see these two
buttons on the dashboard of the YouTube studio. We're going to
click this one which is the go live button. So if we click that
It opens up this nice little page which will allow you to
copy and create a new stream or create a new stream, we're going
to go create a new stream, just so I can kind of take you
through everything from the ground up. So let's do test
stream or leave it as public actually I'm gonna go just so
this doesn't pop up on my channel I'm gonna go unlisted
rate stream
stream, about to happen. And then you can just simply as
we're alerted as educational, you're going to click scheduled
for later. And then you can go ahead and schedule your stream
for later. I'm going to go schedule this for 1pm. Let's go
1pm on Saturday, April 25. I'm going to be able to upload my
custom thumbnail here. We're just gonna grab this one. This
is a different thumbnail, but we're gonna put that up there.
And then you're gonna To be able to say is this made for kids is
this not made for kids. And we're going to say no, this is
not made for kids. And then you can add in any sort of age
restriction that you'd like. And you're going to simply click
Create stream. So from here, the stream is created. And you can
see this has all of the information, including the
stream error URL, the stream key right here, this is what you're
going to really want to know when you're when you're working
with any sort of third party streaming software, something
like V max, which I highly recommend, or if you're working
with even e cam, or Wirecast, or even OBS near need to know the
stream key and the stream URLs. And then you can kind of get
familiar yourself with this page a little bit. But it's pretty
straightforward. These are going to be where your analytics live,
you can actually have your chat will live right here. This is
the page that I do recommend that you have open when you're
live streaming, especially if you're a new to this if you want
to check and see what the analytics are like or how the
stream health is going, you're going to be able to see some
basic analytics up here. And up here, of course is where we're
going to see it your streaming preview. So this is if and this
is the way I normally stream because I'm usually using some
sort of third party say they want to do multiple camera
angles, or I want to add in lower thirds or I want to do
some other unique things with the streaming software. And I
can leave a link to some of the streaming gear if you check out
the cards or the descriptions. I'll have one a run through of
my mobile streaming gear but also be on the lookout for more
videos about just V max and kind of my live stream setup. I just
want to break in here and say hopefully you're enjoying this
video. If you aren't give it a give it a like I would really
appreciate that. And also if you have any questions, be sure to
leave them in the comments below. And if you want to get my
entire gear Guide, which includes the three levels of
live streaming, all you have to do is head on over to Nick
Palkowski Calm slash gear guide. All right, back to the video.
And then if you do click here, you can jump to the webcam. But
it's not obviously supported on this browser. I'm on safari, you
need to have Chrome. And then you can even go here to the
Manage piece. And this is where it tells you all the live
streams you have scheduled for all the upcoming ones. And as
you can see, I only have the one scheduled here. It is unlisted
currently, and it's titled test stream. This is how you get into
it, and kind of dive into any of the options. You're still able
to edit the title and description. You can grab the
this is where you're gonna grab if you want to, you can grab the
shareable link, and I want to show you just a little bit what
that actually looks like. So let's jump over to the shareable
link which is going to take us to that main page. So this is
what people who go to the page with your your viewers are going
to see they're going to be able to click a get reminder. You can
see we're live in four days April 25 at 1pm And they can
comment, they're going to be able to see the chat as things
go. This is the actual spot that they will see. And this is also
where I recommend if you want to, you know, grab an embed
code, you can do that from here, embedded on your website or
anything like that, that's all going to happen right here from
this page. And then of course, you can go here, this is how if
you do want to edit any sort of descriptions or anything like
that, this is where I recommend do jump into and do any of that.
And there you have it. That is how you schedule a live stream
on YouTube. A quick little overview of everything. So if
you're just getting started with your live streams, be sure to
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