YouTube To Launch 5 New Features For Livestreams

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3 years ago

22/03/2022

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YouTube To Launch 5 New Features For Livestreams, YouTube is enhancing livestreams for viewers and creators with the launch of five new features.

YouTube announces five new features for livestreams, some of which are currently in testing and others that will roll out later this year.

These features are previewed in a video on YouTube’s Creator Insider channel. They include:

Here’s more about each of these features and how they will enhance the live-streaming experience on YouTube.

Go Live Together – Collaborative Livestreaming
YouTube is currently running a tiny trial of the feature known as Go Live Together.
This is a collaboration streaming feature that is available on mobile devices. Go Live Together allows creators to invite their guests to join their stream by sharing an invitation via a link.
The host who hosts the Livestream may invite guests and screen them before broadcasting live to their viewers.
Screenshot from: YouTube.com/CreatorInsider, March 2022.
The channel and the information of the user remain private during the streaming.
If you are the host of the Go Live Together stream, you’ll be able to view stream statistics on YouTube Studio as you would for every other Livestream.
On the other hand, visitors won’t be able to view the statistics.
The Go-Live Together stream can see adverts for mid-roll and pre-roll. However, guests won’t be able to get any benefit from these ads either. Revenue from advertising will be passed on to the channel hosting.
YouTube is looking to increase users that can access Go Live Together after the trial.

Live Rings
YouTube is currently working on adding live rings to the platform.
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The rings can help viewers know when a channel is on by placing a ring around the channel’s profile image.
Live rings are designed to improve the visibility and engagement of creators’ live streams posted on YouTube.
Screenshot from: YouTube.com/CreatorInsider, March 2022.
Clicking on a profile image using the badgering for live will take the viewer to the live stream in motion.
Live rings are currently observed on specific screens on mobile phones and will be extended to YouTube in the coming months.

Cross-Channel Live Redirects
The third option that is in development is live redirects that cross-channel.
Presently, creators with at least 1000 subscribers can use a feature known as live redirect to direct viewers away from their broadcast or online premiere a different live stream or to a premiere in their channel.
However, they cannot connect viewers to live streams or premieres hosted by a different channel.
With the introduction, the cross-channel live redirects creators with at least 1000 subscribers, and no active community guidelines strikes can redirect viewers to live streams or a premiere broadcast on another channel.
The channel that is being redirected can include channels they would like them to redirect their channels to these or to permit the channels in question to redirect their channels to these.

Split-Screen Viewing On Mobile
YouTube is currently working to provide uninterrupted views of Livestream by using the split-screen method, offering two different ways to view the optimized stream for smartphones.
In the live chat experience, the engagement panel will be located just to the right of the screen and replaces that live chat panel in the traditional view.
Leaning back or collapsing the live chat experience allows the chat video to fill the screen when viewing landscape view. The chat is then portrayed by the number of viewers in the lower right-hand corner.
If the viewer count is clicked, it brings the user back to the lean-in mode.
The experience with lean back will display a teaser of crucial chat moments, such as polls, to ensure the user does not miss any critical information.
YouTube is getting ready to roll the views out to viewers and should be fully operational at the end of the week.

Live Q&A
Another feature coming soon to YouTube plans to release within the next few months is live Q&A.
Live Q&A allows viewers to ask questions in a Livestream that are in response to the creator’s or prompt.
Questions that the host answers will be temporarily pinched at on the front of the chat, allowing other viewers to post their own.