If you’re looking to host a live stream, YouTube is a great platform for that.
However, can you host a private or unlisted live stream on YouTube?
The answer is yes—YouTube allows streamers to change the privacy settings of their live streams.
Streamers can do so before they go live on YouTube by changing the “Visibility” setting of their live stream.
However, the “Visibility” setting is difficult to find.
Once you can find the settings, you will be able to change the privacy settings of your live stream.
In this guide, you’ll learn how to organize a private YouTube live stream.
How to live stream privately on YouTube
To host a private YouTube live stream, you need to click “Go Live” first.
Once you are on your live stream dashboard, click the “Edit” button and change the “Visibility” setting from “Public” to “Private”.
After you have changed the “Visibility” setting to “Private”, you need to invite others via email.
You can do so by clicking “Share privately” and adding someone else’s email.
Finally, save your settings by clicking the “Save” button.
Once your video goes live, your invitees will be notified via email to join.
Here’s a step-by-step guide (with screenshots) on how you can host a private YouTube live stream:
- Open YouTube and click “Go Live”
- Select “Now”, then “Built-in Webcam”
- Click the “Edit” button, then “Display”
- Select “Private” and invite others via email
1. Open YouTube and click “Go Live”
Open YouTube > click your profile picture > click “Go Live”.
First, open YouTube on the desktop.
Then, click on your profile picture on the top navigation bar.
This will open a menu with two options including “Upload Video” and “Go Live”.
The “Upload Video” option allows you to upload videos to your YouTube channel.
On the other hand, the “Go Live” option allows you to go live on YouTube.
Click “Go Live” to go to the YouTube Live Control Room.
Please note that you can only stream on YouTube on desktop.
If you want to go live on YouTube on mobile, you need at least 1,000 subscribers.
Otherwise, you’re not required to go live on the desktop version of YouTube.
2. Select “Now”, then select “Built-in Webcam”
Choose your preferred time to go live (recommended “Now”).
After clicking “Go Live”, you will go to the YouTube Live Control Room.
On the YouTube Live Control Room, you will be presented with two options including “Now” and “Later”.
The “Now” option allows you to go live now, but you can review your settings before going live.
If you want to schedule a live stream at a later time, you can select the “Later day” option.
For now, select the “Now” option by clicking “Get Started”.
Select the stream type (“Built-in software recommended”).
After you have selected the “Now” option, you will have to choose between several types of streams.
The first stream type is “Built-in Webcam” while the second stream type is “Streaming Software”.
If you want to go live using webcam and microphone, select the option “Built-in Webcam”.
This option is also recommended for first time creators as it is simpler.
However, if you want to stream using streaming software like OBS, select the “Streaming software” option.
To simplify things, choose the “Built-in” webcam option.
Move on to the next steps to learn how to change your live stream to private.
On your live stream dashboard, click the “Edit” button.
Once you’ve chosen when you want to go live and your preferred stream type, you’ll arrive at your live streaming dashboard.
On the live streaming dashboard, you’ll see the video’s information (title, category, privacy, etc.).
You’ll also see your stream settings, analytics, and flow health.
On the video’s info, you’ll see an “Edit” button at the top right of the video.
Click the “Edit” button to edit your video information.
Since your channel info contains your video’s privacy settings, you’ll need to edit that.
Click the “Visibility” option.
After you click the “Edit” button, you will go to the “Details” tab where you can edit your video information.
On the “Details” tab, you will see the video’s title, description, visibility, etc.
Scroll down until you see the “Visibility” option.
Click the “Visibility” option to open the visibility options.
The “Visibility” option allows you to change who can see your live stream.
By default, the option is set to “Public,” which means that everyone will be able to watch your live stream on YouTube.
Continue with the final step to learn how to make your live stream private so only select people can see it.
4. Select “Private” & invite others via email
Select the “Private” option, then click “Private Sharing”.
There are three visibility options that you can choose from including “Private”, “Not Public” and “Public”.
The “Private” option allows you to invite a selected number of people via email to join your live stream.
If you select “Unlisted”, only people with a link to your live stream will be able to view it.
Finally, the “Public” option allows anyone on YouTube to watch your live stream.
Select the “Private” option to make your live stream private.
You are then asked to invite others to join your live stream.
To invite others to your live stream, click “Share privately”.
Invite others to your live stream by entering their email addresses in the “Invites” field > selecting “Email notifications” > clicking “Done”.
After clicking “Share privately”, you need to invite others to watch your private video.
You can do so by entering their email address in the “Invite” field.
Simply enter the email addresses of the people you want to invite to your live stream and press “Enter” on your keyboard.
If you have successfully entered your email, there will be an “x” icon next to it.
If you mistyped an email, click the “x” icon next to it to delete it.
After you are done adding all the email addresses, click the “Email notifications” checkbox.
This will allow YouTube to email invitees when you go live.
Finally, click “Done” to update your settings.
You’ve successfully learned how to host a private YouTube live stream!
Conclusion
Due to the growing popularity of working from home and studying from home, online meetings are increasingly popular.
Live streaming on YouTube is a unique way to conduct online meetings with colleagues, classmates, etc.
But with dedicated video communication tools like Zoom and Microsoft Teams, people are starting to switch to them.
While YouTube Live is commonly used for gaming, you can also use it to conduct web/video conferencing.
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