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YouTube Livestreams – Check out 5 New Features launching on YouTube Livestreams

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YouTube Livestreams – Check out 5 New Features launching on YouTube Livestreams

YouTube 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:

‘Go Live Together’
Live rings
Cross-channel live redirects
Uninterrupted split screen viewing
Live Q&A

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

1. Go Live Together – Collaborative Livestreaming

YouTube is currently running a small pilot test of a feature called Go Live Together.

This is a collaborative streaming feature for mobile devices. Go Live Together allows creators to invite guests to stream with them by sending a link.

The host who creates the livestream can invite and screen their guests before going live to their viewers.

Note that the guest’s channel and user information will remain hidden during the stream.

As the host of a Go Live Together stream you’ll be able to see streaming analytics in YouTube Studio as you would with any other livestream.

Guests, on the other hand, won’t be able to see the analytics.

Pre-roll and mid-roll ads can appear in a Go Live Together stream, but guests won’t benefit from those either. Ad revenue will be attributed to the host channel.

YouTube will look to expand the number of creators who have access to Go Live Together after the pilot test.

2. Live Rings

YouTube is working to add live rings throughout the platform.

These rings will help viewers identify when a channel is live by adding a ring around a channel’s profile picture.

Live rings are intended to increase discovery and viewership for creator’s livestreams on YouTube.

3. Cross-Channel Live Redirects

The third feature in the works is called cross-channel live redirects.

Today, creators with at least 1000 subscribers can use a feature called live redirect to direct their viewers from a live stream or premiere to another livestream or premiere on their own channel.

However, they can’t send their viewers to a livestream or premiere hosted on another channel.

With the launch of cross-channel live redirects, creators with at least 1000 subscribers, and no active community guideline strikes, will be able to direct their viewers to a livestream or premiere hosted on a different channel.

4. Split-Screen Viewing On Mobile

YouTube is working on offering an uninterrupted view of a livestream by taking a split screen approach with two different viewing experiences for mobile devices.

In the lean in video and live chat experience, the live chat engagement panel will sit to the right of the screen, replacing the live chat overlay from the classic view.

The lean back or collapsed live chat experience allows for the video to be full screen when watching in landscape mode. The chat is then represented by the viewer count in the lower right hand corner.