Streaming to YouTube

Activate streaming

1. Sign in to your YouTube account.
2. Click your profile picture in the top right and navigate to YouTube Studio.
3. Next to your profile picture, click Create and choose Go Live.
4. If you've never streamed via YouTube before, you'll see the message “Livestreaming is not yet available”. Click Activate.
5. Enter a mobile number to validate.
6. The validation process takes 24 hours. Come back to the page the next day.

Stream via RTMP — 5 steps

1. Sign in to your YouTube account.
2. Click the camera icon in the top right next to your profile picture.
3. Choose Go Live.
4. Click Edit and pick a name for your stream. Set visibility to unlisted (only people with the link can see the stream). You can also upload a thumbnail. Enable Allow embedding at the bottom. In the Customization tab, you can enable or disable live chat.
5. Copy the stream key and the RTMP URL into your streaming or meeting software. The stream starts automatically as soon as you send a signal.

Stream via webcam — 6 steps

1. Sign in to your YouTube account.
2. Click the camera icon in the top right.
3. Choose Go Live.
4. Click the camera icon in the top left.
5. Pick a title for your stream. You can upload a thumbnail here too. Choose whether your content is for kids (recommended: “Not for kids”, since no filter is applied). Click Next. Here you can enable or disable live chat. Click Next and set visibility to unlisted. Schedule your livestream for the time you want. Click done.
6. You should now see the preview of your livestream. You can check the devices in use and the scheduled time. At the bottom right, you can now click Go Live to start the stream.

Get the embed link from YouTube

• Open the watch link of your video stream.
• Click Share > Embed.
• Copy the link between src="…" and paste it into the talque session.
• Alternative: right-click the video and choose “Copy embed code”.

Livestream view numbers

View numbers can be accessed via YouTube Studio or shown directly under the livestream window on the watch page.