Introduction to live streaming
You can reach your audience live by taking advantage of live streaming on YouTube.
Before you get started with your live stream, you need to do a few things:
- Confirm that your channel is verified and that you have no live stream restrictions in the last 90 days.
- Enable live streaming from Creator Studio tools --> Live Streaming.
Start streaming
Once your channel is enabled, you have two options to start your live stream:
- Stream now is a quick and easy way to go live. Start sending content and we'll automatically start and stop the stream for you at the right time.
- Events gives you greater control of the live stream. You can preview before you go live, you have back-up redundancy streams and you can start and stop the stream when you want.
If you want to embed your live stream on a site, make sure you have an approved AdSense account linked to your YouTube account.