- This is how to go live on TikTok,
open the app, go down to live, press Go Live,
we're live on TikTok, hey TikTok.
But seriously is pretty simple to start a TikTok live
once you know how, and just as easy to get your live streams
looking pro, with a few simple tips
that we're gonna cover off in this video.
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Now I've played around with TikTok
but I definitely tend to use YouTube a lot more,
so I'm roping in our resident Primal Video team
TikTok expert for this one,
To show us how to go live on TikTok,
and then afterwards, I'm gonna share with you
my top three tips, to help you create
professional TikTok live streams
Cue some sort of amazing transition.
- Hi I'm Jordana Grace, and we're going to cover
how to go live on TikTok, with simple tips and tricks
to maximize your live views
and boost the quality of your TikTok live.
Now, there's only a few requirements to go live on TikTok
you need to be over 16 years old and have 1000 followers.
But it doesn't matter how old you are to watch a live,
that's fine, and TikTok is also available
on iOS and Android but I am going to show you
how to go live on iOS, Let's go.
So all we need to do is click on our TikTok app,
and at the bottom of the screen you got the Plus Button,
so you hit that, and you got a few options okay?
So, we're gonna scroll across to the Live Feature,
You haven't go live, don't worry
and now you got your screen before you go live,
So take your time to make sure you got everything set up,
so you're not panicked when you go live.
So you have the options to click and change your icon,
you can either take a photo or select from library,
I've always like to have quite catching photos
so people recognize that's it's me
and you can also add a title,
It's always best to make this snappy,
because you only have 32 characters,
so you wanna make it something where it's like
"Guess what's happening", or "What happened today"
"I'm cooking this", so people are more engaged
to go into your lives, so I'm just gonna put "Good Morning"
Okay, and, so here you also have the option to choose
what topic wanna talk about, Is it fitness and sports,
gaming, DYI, Pop Culture,
But I'm just gonna keep mine on Chat,
and you also have the option to support a nonprofit,
you don't get the choose to add your own,
but there's a great variety of nonprofits in here,
again which will depend on what country that you're in,
But then during a live, people have the option to donate
and support that nonprofit,
so it's actually quite a nice feature,
on the side of your screen you have different options,
so you can flip your screen, and... Hey there I am,
or you can enhance your, how you look,
change your eyes, your face,
I like to keep it quite natural on how I look,
so I am going to leave that.
You can also have effects,
like you can look, you can look like this,
I wouldn't recommend it, but you can have different options
and choose Green Screens for your lives,
witch can make it really interesting,
I'm not gonna have that on,
and then also you have, the settings button,
this is a really good one to check before you go live
because, if you want to just have little things like,
the option on to receive Live Gift's or,
to make your comments can be seen
you can also have a key word filter,
So if you wanna just block out some key words
you can do that here, and also you can add in moderators
people to help you moderate your chat,
because going live, and answer all the questions
can be a bit overwhelming,
so is always nice to add a moderator
you can see I have Justin there, just in case.
Okay, and then when you are ready to go live,
all you need to do is press the big Go live button,
So let's do it, we are going live in 3 ... 2... 1
And no we are live, okay it's as easy as that,
so, here let's talk about the live screen.
So in the top corner it always show you
if you got a good connection or bad connection,
keep an eye on this because some times,
you can dip in if the internet's not great,
at the bottom you got a little note from TikTok
saying welcome to your live,
and make sure you adhere to community guidelines,
you can click on that if you wanna now more.
And at the bottom we have this little icon
when you can either add a host or ad guests.
So if you click that,
at the moment, I don't have any guest requests
but if people do wanna come into your live,
that's were they'll turn up.
Then at the top of my screen, Hi everyone!
You can see all the people that have join your live,
So obviously the number can be like 5 , 30, 1000,
it will show on the top hand screen
And Justin just join, Hi, and it also shows that Justin
is not only my moderator, but he's my friend,
that's so nice, And then at the bottom
you can also press the three dots,
so, you have the same options as you did
in the previous screen, but again, it's always good
to set this up before you go live
you can flip the camera, mirror your video,
you can filter comments, ad topics, gifts,
and there's also the admin settings again
we can do the same things,
add moderators and things like that,
so if we go in there, I can add or remove a moderator.
Another thing to know is that if you're
over the 18 years old you can actually receive gifts live
they look like flowers, or coins to little presents
and that actually can transfer into cash,
so, it's always quite a nice little feature TikTok,
so, at the bottom you can get people to not only comment
but there's also a Q & A section,
so people can comment, but they can also
ask you specific questions, so this is my favorite part
about going live, it's interacting with your followers
because to me, that's what TikTok is about
is about meeting new people, and lives are a great way
where you can just get to know people,
ask questions, and because my topic is a chat
that's all this is, it's a chat with my followers
so make sure you're engaging and looking at the comments
So, Justin is sad because he does not have the Q & A feature
so, if anyone does have the Q & A option,
please send a Q & A.
But you can actually scroll through
so you can see if you've missed any comments, don't worry
you can always scroll trough. And don't feel worried
that you have to answer every single one
just take your time. So, I'm gonna end the live now
so we can check out the next page,
anyway thanks so much everyone for joining
and have a great day. So, all you need to end your live
is to press the button at the bottom of the screen.
So I come up with this message "End this live now",
so many viewers are currently watching,
so you can cancel and keep your live going
or, you can press "End Now", we are going to go end now
okay, so now here's where it gets really interesting
you got your live summary,
so you have you recording available called "Live replay"
up to 90 days, and you can actually download that,
which is a fun feature that maybe you put your live up
on another social platform, who knows.
On this screen it'll show you how many viewers you have,
how many diamonds or gifts you were donated
there's also statistics like,
you have 16 percent more viewers
that the average host, normally I have more than that
but it's not the best time of day for me.
And it shows who your top viewers were
and you can even comment back to TikTok
how your live broadcast was,
then you can follow onto the next page
and you get more details on your live
like the average view time, if you had for example
I had 56 percent of people that were followers on my live
and 44 percent new viewers, so it's a great way
to also get more followers,
and that is everything you need to see on your live summary
of course the other part of this is,
how do people find your lives
Okay so currently at the moment I found
there are three different ways
so, I'm on my profile at the moment,
and I wanna see what you see, I wanna try to find
some people that I follow who are live at the moment.
Okay, so if I go to my home tab at the top,
I've gone to Following, and here's all the people
that I follow and currently going live.
There's quite a few at the moment.
You can also press the Live Tab, and then you can just
scroll through all the people that you're following
and that they're going live, so that's an easy way to do it
another way is if you go to your inbox
at the bottom of your screen it will show all the people
that you're following who are live right now so,
Merrick is awesome, I'm just gonna see
what's he's doing on his live. An there he is ,
he's live got 1.2K people on his live right now
and you can see at the top his topic is Chat,
so I know what It's about and as you can see,
people are like, they're doing little smiley faces,
little gifts and the comments are just scrolling through
and finally another way that you can find
someone that's going live so for example,
If I click onto Merrik's profile right here,
okay so if I just go to one of his videos,
and you can see, here's one of his videos
and his icon is pulsating, there's a little word
that says Live, that's means he's gone live
so, if I'm scrolling through TikTok
and I see that he's live,
I just click that and now I'm on his live.
So that's all the places where people can find your lives
that's how easy is go live on TikTok,
and now how to maximize your live,
back to Justin in the studio.
I am in the studio, I have to move out of place
for him to come here so,
- Nope still don have 1000 followers on TikTok,
Oh, we're back, earlier in the video I said,
I would share with you my top three tips to help you
create professional looking live streams.
Tip number one is to plan before you go live,
to have a bit of an overview,
a few bullet points jotted down,
so that you can keep on track.
This is going to make it much easier for you
to present your content,
but it's also gonna make it much easier for your audience
to follow along and to stick with you
on your live stream as well.
The other area you can plan is the actual time
that you are going to go live,
to make sure that the bulk of your audience
is actually online during those times
so you are going to get more people onto your live streams,
so you can figure this out by looking at your analytics
and it will tell you when the bulk of your key audience
is online, then you plan to go live at those times
for greater success.
Tip number two is to level up your gear
now, you can get great results just using your phone but,
by purchasing some simple cheap gear,
things like a microphone, a light and a tripod
you can definitely level up your stream
so, audio or microphone wires,
there's amazing microphones out there for 20 dollars
like the BOYA BY-M1 microphone
that's one that we've used for a lot of our YouTube videos
it's crazy awesome, or if you're after something
with a bit more freedom, a bit more flexibility,
then you can look at a mini shotgun microphone
like the Rode VideoMicro. The next one lighting,
you could just whatever you got access to already
so, you could sit in front of a window
to get that nice natural light through lighting you up
or you could use whatever lights you've already got
around the house , things like a bedside table light
or a desktop lamp, you could use those to light you up.
Now in terms of actually purchasing a portable light,
my favorite all rounder right now,
is still the YONGNUO YN-300 AIR light,
and it's one that we still use in our studio here as well
now for a tripod or for stabilizing your phone,
you could just stack your phone up on a pile of books,
you could put it up on a bookshelf
to get it to the right height,
get it out of your hands wherever possible
so that it's not going to be shaky for your viewers.
There is also a great portable tripods for around 20 dollars
things like the ARKON TRIPOD,
which does come with a phone mount as well,
for standing full height traditional style tripod,
I like the SLIK brand of tripods
or if you're after a vlogging style tripod,
I'm a big fan of the SWITCHPOD.
Tip number three, is another one that most people overlook,
and that is running a speed test
to check that your internet speed is good.
If you're going to go live,
it's going to use your upload speed
on your internet connection, if that's not good,
then you can have a bad live stream,
it could be low quality,
or it could be dropping out throughout the stream,
so you can easily check your internet speed
by downloading the speed test app
and running a speed test, again what we're looking at here
is the upload speed, you want to make sure
that at an absolute minimum you've got
a greater than 2 megabit per second connection available.
You also want to make sure it's not fluctuating
or jumping around all over the place,
because again, that's going to lead to a bad stream
now, if you're running a test and you don't have
2 megabit per second upload that's stable
then I'll suggest trying to find a different connection
different Wi-fi or hotspotting from a different device
if possible, if not you can still go live
just now that you might have some issues
or dropouts while you're live.
So, those are my top three tips
to help you create professional live streams
and that's how easy it is to go live on TikTok.
Now linked on screen is another video,
I have no idea what it is, I hope it's good,
I hope is one of ours, I'll see you in the next one.