Going live on social media is super popular right now and you can do so on YouTube if you click on the
live streaming tab you have two options stream now and events stream now is a more confusing way to
do live streaming and gives you a little bit more flexibility perhaps a little bit higher quality options.
But there's an easier way to go live right now.
And that's through this event's option and that's what I'm going to show you how to do right now with
events you can do a livestream without any other software.
All you need to do is click new live event and you can actually use google hangouts which was an older.
I think it's discontinued software to do a live stream.
So when you click Create a new event you can title it you can say when it is you can actually schedule
in the future which is awesome if you want to schedule out live streams in the future so that you can
share on social media or with your email list.
That's something that I've done you can even do webinars this way.
So if you're looking for a free way to do webinars This is how you do it.
It's going to call in test you make it public.
Unlistened I'm just going to make it unlisted.
And then the type is quick or custom with custom you need to use an external encoder.
It's a little bit more confusing so we're just going to do the quick route with Google Hangouts on air.
So the click go live now you'll want to include a description and tags that are relevant.
Once it's ready to stream click OK and this will open up Google Hangouts on air.
It's going to load down here and then when it says start broadcast that means you're ready to go live.
You can do screens sharing up here just by clicking this button and then choosing the screen that you
want to share or a specific application.
You can also turn that on and off during a live stream.
So click Start broadcast and will ask you if you're ready you can stream up to eight hours.
And then when it gives you the on air but in live it means you're on air.
So everything you do right now is on live.
I've done this unlisted so people can actually see this but if it was public it would be on my channel
live.
And it's also recorded and saved so you can either download it later or you can publish it or publish
it later.
Just keep it for your records when you're done you just click Start broadcast to add anyone if you want
to do a live stream with another person just click this invite people button and you get a link or you
can add their email addresses right here.
So that's the easiest way to do a YouTube live session if you want to do it this other way.
It does take a couple of extra steps.
You can use a free software called open broadcast software to set up that encoding and do the stream.
But for now for most people just using that Google Hangouts on air option is just easier makes the whole
thing a lot more simple to be successful at live streaming.
It's best to let people know that you're going to be going live beforehand because if specially if you're
starting your YouTube channel not many people are going to be notified that you are live currently.
When you do do a live session people are actually e-mailed your subscribers or e-mailed.
When you go live which is awesome.
I doubt they're going to continue to do that because as more people do live video it would it make sense
for YouTube to be sending out e-mails every time you're creating a live stream.
But knows for now it's an opportunity.
But make sure you let your audience know you're going to go live.
And if you can come up with a schedule do a livestream every week maybe an Ask me anything or just a
question and answer for whatever topic your business or brand is on.
Get questions from the audience and ask them to answer them live or just have people submit questions
beforehand so that you have things to talk about.
That's what I'm currently doing with my live video on social media and YouTube.
Thanks so much.
If you have any questions let me know otherwise we'll see you in another video.