We have some exciting news to talk about today, guys.
On the mobile app, the YouTube mobile app,
you can now livestream to your YouTube channel
straight from your phone.
I am going to show you guys exactly how to do this, as well
as give you a few tips to make your livestreaming experience
the best possible for both you and your viewers.
That's coming up.
Hey, guys.
My name is Tim Schmoyer and welcome to Video Creators.
This channel is all about helping you guys grow
your YouTube audience so you can spread a message that reaches
people and impacts their lives.
And one of the ways you can impact their lives now
is through livestreaming.
How awesome is that?
So I'm right here on my phone and I'm
going to actually go live and show you guys all of the behind
the scenes of how it works, as well as give you a few tips
here.
The first thing I'm going to do is
I'm going to swipe up here on my phone
and I'm going to go into airplane mode.
And the reason for that is you don't want any phone calls
or anything coming in interrupting it.
But you still do want to get like Wi-Fi access, right?
So I'm going to go into airplane mode and enable Wi-Fi--
or if you're an Android, just put
it in do not disturb mode or something like that.
OK.
So now that that's set, you're not
going to get any phone calls interrupting it.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to go and open up
the YouTube app.
And right at the top of the app, there is now a new option.
This little record-- this little record thing at the top--
you're going to tap that.
And it used to be only the record option was there
but now you can also hit this Go Live button,
as you see right there.
So that's what I'm going to tap.
Now, this is only limited to people
with two creators with 10,000 subscribers or more.
And the reason for that is because YouTube
wants their livestreaming platform
to get pretty good press right when they launch it here.
And so how to do that.
Well, you give it to channels that one,
have a decent audience that people
will show up for a livestream.
And then two, you give it to people
who have invested significantly and they're growing
an audience on their channel.
And that's kind of like an indication
that they're not going to livestream copyrighted
material.
They're not going to stream things
that violates the community guidelines
and things like that.
So it's a little bit safer and gives everyone
a more positive experience-- gives them more positive press,
that type of thing.
But it will roll out for everyone.
OK.
So here's the first thing you're going to come to.
There's a couple of options here.
First of all, the gear at the top gives you-- you
can add a description.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
You can turn the chat on and off.
You can leave that.
If it's age restricted, you can switch that.
If it contains product promotion,
you can slip that on and off, and disable monetization.
That's how I'm going to set it.
I'm going to go back now.
You can also switch it from unlisted or private.
Those are your two options here.
I'm going to do this one public so that it actually
pings notifications of subscribers
so you can see what the chat looks
like on my end and everything.
Then I'm going to give this a title.
Now, one thing I saw a few people do that I thought
was kind of cool as a way of indicating to your viewers
that this is going to go live-- as you go to the emojis,
you go way over to the end and use
the red ball that kind of looks like a record button right
there.
Like right there.
OK.
And then I'm going to go back to ABC and I'm going to go live.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
So this is all ready to go.
The next thing it's going to let me do--
I'm going to hit next and it's going
to let me take a thumbnail.
So I am going to tap on retake right here and do it again.
Hold it up like--
not a great one but I'm going to go for it.
OK.
Now, one thing I like to do here at this point
before you actually go live, see the Share button?
Oh and by the way, you need to pick before you actually
click go live.
Tap it here if you're going to livestream in portrait mode
or in landscape mode, so sideways.
So I'm picking landscape every time.
I think that's the natural way to see videos on YouTube so I'm
going landscape.
But you can go click, then share and this
is where you can copy the link.
So let's say I wanted to tweet this out
before it gets posted to Facebook,
email it, things like that.
If you want to post it, your Patreons, you
can tap that copy link right there and it's copied now.
I could minimize this, go to the Patreon app
and post it there like, hey, I'm going live.
Or you can tweet it, do a lot of different things, right?
So I'm going to just show you guys.
I clicked on Twitter and right before I go live here,
it's going to pop open a little box here.
And I'm just going to hit post.
There it went to Twitter and then I'm going to tap Go Live.
Here we go.
So it's only going to take a second or two.
That's going to give me a little count.
Oh look, people are already here.
I haven't even gone live.
Now it says I'm live.
All right.
Hey everybody, how are you going?
Oh, there's the YT--
so if you have notifications enabled,
that's what you would see like I do.
Man, you guys are first.
You guys are fast.
I haven't even like shown up live in this yet myself
and you guys were already here.
So for you guys who are watching this live, what I'm doing
is I'm recording this live right now so you're all going
to be in tomorrow's video.
They're all going to see you and your chat and that's
just why I'm recording this.
And I'm just kind of giving a quick overview
of the app for people.
So that one right there.
Look, I can report that, remove it, put these in time
out, block.
In, this case I'm blocking.
So you can moderate comments while you
do this, which is great.
And if the chat starts going by too fast
and you can't keep up with it, you can scroll back.
See that?
You can catch up with stuff and then
you can tap that little blue arrow
to go right back to where it started.
The gear icon-- VarietyGirl1, she's here.
That means that she's a moderator on my channel,
so she has access to do lots of moderation-type of things,
of banning and just helping keep the chat clean,
everything like that.
OK.
So in the upper-left corner, you can see it says live
and it's red.
If your connection starts to get weak or poor,
that'll turn to yellow or red.
Or it will have a red notification at the top
if your connection starts to get poor here.
And then also in the upper left, you
can see that it shows how many people are live here right now.
Hey, everyone.
Hey Creative Newborns.
Hey, Toy Replay.
So it said there's 60 people and 10 people that give it a thumbs
up.
Now there's 63 people.
Let me give you a little overview of what's
going on here at the bottom.
So I can at the bottom left here, flip my camera around.
That's what my camera looks like.
That's what I'm recording on right there.
There's my screen.
It's going to go--
that's my screen capture right now.
They're going to flip that back around.
Right here is the chat controls, so you can see all of the chat.
You can turn off the chat so you don't see it.
The people who are livestreaming with you can still see it.
so I can put none, right?
And now it just shows me, show chat and I can go back to that.
Hey, guys.
Yeah, this is fun.
Glad you guys are enjoying this.
And then you can see just super chat.
And so there hasn't been any super chats right now,
otherwise they would show up right there.
But if you wanted to see just super chats,
you can filter those out.
So those are the options now.
Now, they have this one feature--
Hi, Shannon.
They have this one feature right here
at the bottom where you can do different filters.
I'm not sure who would want to use some of these,
like the 8 millimeter one or the documentary one.
I don't know-- if you're really into that kind of thing.
Yes, this is iOS.
You can do that.
I'm just going to go back to the normal.
There's a super chat.
Hey, Toy.
Oh, thank you man.
You're a Patreon too.
It's good to see you.
So let me show you guys now what happens.
He gave $2.
If I go to super chat, you can see-- oh and Cody, also.
Thank you, Cody.
You guys are so awesome.
Thank you for helping me make this demonstration work.
So I can see just the super chats there,
as you guys can see.
I'll go back to all chat because I like
all the people who are here.
These three little dots over here,
if I want to share it again, like retweet it,
I can go back to that and retweet it if I want to.
I can mute my microphone completely,
which is a really good option if something bad is going
on or in something or your kids come in
and you're like hold on a second and you got
to put it on mute or something.
So that's what that is.
And so that's everything that's going on here.
And I'm going to let you guys know
because you're watching this live-- give you
guys a little bit.
This is for tomorrow's video.
Oh a couple of things I would recommend,
to answer some of your questions.
You guys are asking about the 10,000, why is it limited?
Already answered that so you'll have to watch the vlog tomorrow
to get that.
But a couple of other things.
The revenue split.
So the super chat-- so we had a few super chats
here from a few people, Toy Replay and Cody Daniels.
And so the revenue split for that in your contract
when you enable super chat, it's a 70/30 split.
It's by default. So if it's $1 from Cody, I got $0.70 cents,
YouTube gets $0.30 cents, right?
So that's what the revenue split is for that.
And one thing that I thought was cool,
an idea that some people, creators, have been doing
is if they are getting a lot of super chats coming in,
then what they're doing-- they're
doing a super chat commercial break.
And that's when they're doing their normal livestream,
they're like, OK, now it's time for a super chat
commercial break and they'll go through
and they'll just read all the comments from all
of their super chat people.
I thought it was kind of a good solution for that.
Another thing to keep in mind with these livestreams
is that it takes about 10 meg of data for every one minute
of streaming that you do.
OK.
So if you're going to be livestreaming on your data
plan, that's practically what you can expect, about 10
meg for every minute.
And also along with that, you can expect it to drain about 1%
of battery life for every minute of livestreaming, also,
which I think is a lot.
So if you used your livestream for 50 minutes, that's
going to be like 50% of your battery life
is going to be gone.
So make sure you have a battery backup
with you, something like that.
A third thing is typically for livestreams,
I found that it's best--
gotta switch arms-- sorry, you guys, getting tired.
I don't have you up on the tripod.
That's why it's a little shaky, too.
It's best to keep your livestreams to about 20 minutes
or less and to keep them short, keep him punchy.
You can go on for longer but the reason I say 20 minutes or less
is mostly for the replay value.
So that when people come and watch your livestream,
it's not like two hours.
That's great for like gaming, but if you're just
doing a quick mobile thing, if you wanted the replay value
to be high, short, quick, punchy.
Kind of have like an agenda in your head
going into it of what you want to do and be prepared
to just kind of do that.
So summary on that.
Then the last thing, number four,
this is for you guys who are watching this right now, also--
all 95% of you--
is to like the call to actions that you guys want
to make in your vlog.
So how are your subscribers going
to get notified of these in the first place?
You guys who are watching this, go ahead
and comment with how you guys got notified about this
because I just did this spontaneously-- no warning,
nothing.
So the primary ways that people are going to-- tap that bell
icon if you're in the app or on desktop--
this is for you guys that are watching this
right now-- although you probably already
have done that-- push notification.
There.
There you go.
Below this video, if you're watching
this later as the replay--
and this is why I encourage you guys to do it like--
I think you should start your livestream by saying, hey,
we're getting ready to go live.
This is going to be awesome.
You can hang out with me.
By the way, if you're not already subscribed
to notifications, this is how you do it.
Tap the bell icon next to the Subscribe button
and enable notifications.
You can pick whether it's email or push notifications or both.
And then go into your content.
So that that's how you do it.
And that's how people get notified
and that's how you're going to get people showing up
for your livestreams.
Or if you want to control your own notification
system like using a text messaging list, you can.
I have one like that going on where you can text the word
VCLIVE to number 43506 and I will send you
guys a text message notification when I go live.
And that is using a service called txtsignal,
T-X-T signal.com.
Not sponsored, just letting you guys
know that's who I use and I love them.
They work great.
To end your live stream--
I'm sorry guys, I got to demonstrate
because I got to show what happens afterwards.
Sorry, I wasn't planning on leaving but you got it.
You tap this finish button in the upper-right corner
and this is what happens.
See you guys, bye.
Are you sure, end.
See, this is playbacks.
How many people were watching at the peak time
of-- peak concurrences of how many people were
watching simultaneously max.
I livestreamed for nine minutes and 50 seconds.
I got no new subscribers from this video during this time.
Total watch time was 12 hours; average watch time, people
stuck around for two minutes and 14 seconds; 333 playbacks.
That's different than view counts.
If someone refreshes a few times,
that's considered a playback.
So that's how it works and now it will be processing here.
I can do a few things with it.
If I want, I can delete it.
I can edit it.
I'm probably going to edit this at this point
and set it to unlisted so I don't need this one to go out
to subscribers necessarily.
Click save and now it will be set
to be unlisted for people who still see my tweet
and want to go check it out, but not going out to subscribers.
And I would love to hear from you guys in the comments below.
How are you going to use this feature with your audience?
What types of ways are you planning
on livestreaming with them?
I would love to hear your ideas and let me know how I
should use this with you guys.
I would love to hear your thoughts of how
this could be most valuable for our little community here.
And if this is your first time here at Video Creators,
welcome.
This channel is all about helping
you guys grow your YouTube audience so that you can reach
people, impact them with the messages that you're spreading,
and change their lives.
And thank you so much for letting
me be a small part of that.
Subscribe and I'll see you guys again next Thursday
at 2:00 PM Eastern Time for another Video Creators video.
See you then.
Bye.