- I'm gonna give you five YouTube live streaming tips
that are gonna help you have a better show
and they're gonna help you get more views,
and we're starting right now.
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My name is Nick, welcome to another video.
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Everybody is starting to live stream on YouTube,
and if you're not, you're really missing out
on the opportunity to have a deeper connection
with the people that are watching your videos.
And real quick if you're live streaming here on YouTube
of if you're live streaming over on Facebook
and you have any tips to share,
leave 'em in the comments below.
Number one, you wanna create your stream
with the replay in mind.
Start it just like you would a video.
Use any graphics that you would normally use
in a video, use any type of catchphrases or introductory
stuff that you would normally do in a video.
The reason for that is because typically
most of the traffic that you're gonna be getting
on your live stream is gonna be coming
once you're actually finished with the live stream.
So you wanna make the whole thing kinda like
it's a video.
But of course cooler and with a deeper connection
with the people that are watching.
Number two, optimize your metadata
or in other words optimize your video for search
before you start streaming.
To do this you go into your Creator's Studio on YouTube,
you go to your live stream page.
From there you click on Advanced Settings.
And then you click on the Basic Info tab.
It's kinda hidden really,
but once you know that it's there, now you can go in
and fully optimize your video for search.
Number three, if you're doing gaming videos
or shoutout videos or anything like that,
then just go ahead and do whatever it is
that you wanna do as the video kinda goes along.
However, if you are somebody that is using YouTube
for business or you're using YouTube for the sake
of training or something like that,
what you wanna do is you want to let people know
the beginning of the video that your Q&A session
and all that stuff is gonna be towards the end,
and then you just focus on the actual training content.
Because again, you want this whole thing to be
put together just like it's a video.
So if you focus on the training first
or you focus on that important info first
and then you have the Q&A part afterwards,
then it's gonna make for a much better show
and a much better organized stream that you put together.
But of course, throw in like shoutouts here and there
when you notice people coming into the stream
and things like that.
You know just kinda recognizing them quickly
instead of getting a whole conversation going.
Nothing wrong with that but just try to get through
that part a little bit faster to make your stream
as smooth as it can be.
Number four, schedule your streams in advance.
That way people know that you're gonna be streaming.
You're gonna get more viewers if you do this consistently,
and especially if you can schedule your streams
at a similar day and time of the week.
Then before you know it what's gonna happen
is you're gonna have people that are gonna wanna
actually schedule things around when it is that you go live.
And as an example if you wanna join my live stream,
I'm live every Saturday at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time,
hope to see you there.
Number five and I have a bonus one after this,
you wanna make sure that you have your plan together.
You wanna go into your stream with an actual plan.
What is it that I'm gonna talk about?
What is it that I'm gonna be covering?
What is it that I'm gonna be showing people?
What is it that I'm gonna be doing in my video?
What what what what what what?
It doesn't have to be scripted out or anything like that,
just have a general idea.
Put some bullet points together and say okay,
I gotta make sure that I do this,
I gotta make sure that I do this.
That way you have kind of a flow,
you have a system that you work through,
and you have you know general idea of what it is
that you're gonna be doing,
so when you go live you're not sitting there
trying to think of what it is that you should be doing.
Make sense, cool.
Number six, as a bonus tip,
keep it simple.
If you're just getting into live streaming,
you don't have to have all the fancy stuff on the screen.
Sure it might look okay or whatever
and it might be fun for the people that are watching
and all that, but focus on streaming.
Focus on getting your show together first
and then after you have that part together,
then start adding all the extra bonus stuff
that you wanna do.
If you are far along enough in the process
that you do wanna learn how to do that stuff,
I made some videos on how to use OBS,
which is a free software that you can live stream with,
and how to basically make your live streams
look professional with OBS.
I'll put a link to that right up here.
Make sure that you go check that out
if you have any interest in live streaming
or if you want to kinda level up your game
with live streams as well.
And if you wanna learn more about growing your channel,
making videos, and all types of other YouTube
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Thank you so much for watching.
I'll see you next time.