This tutorial will show you how to connect to Youtube Live. If you’d like to learn how to connect to other platforms, please refer to our other articles.
This can be achieved in two ways:
Using our Chrome Extension
Using the StreamAlive bot to connect directly to your session
In this article we’ll explain the second point, using the StreamAlive bot. However, here’s the documentation if you’d like to explore using the StreamAlive Chrome Extension.
In both cases, the extension and the bot, the result is the same. Your audience comments are picked up and processed by StreamAlive to turn them into the visual interactions on your screen.
Please ensure you have either scheduled your live stream or started a live stream on YouTube. This is required as StreamAlive picks up these sessions to connect to.
Here is how you can schedule or begin a YouTube live stream.
(If you know how to schedule/begin a YouTube session, click here to skip this part)
Schedule/Start a YouTube Livestream
Access Youtube Studio
Go to your YouTube studio. You can find it either on the menu available by clicking on your YouTube profile picture in the top right corner or by scrolling down on the left-hand menu.
Access Go Live to create a Live stream
Once you’re in the Youtube Studio, click on Create in the top right corner and then click on Go Live. You’ll be taken to a new page with Go Live options.
Scheduling a New Livestream
On the Go Live page, you can choose to schedule a live stream or start a live stream immediately.
Scheduling a new live stream:
Click on Manage on the left hand side menu.
On the top right, you will find Schedule Stream
Starting a Livestream immediately:
Click on Webcam, fill in the live stream details, and click on Done.
Finally, click on GO LIVE to start the live stream,
Connecting StreamAlive to your YouTube Livestream
Access the Sessions Tab in StreamAlive
On the StreamAlive homepage, click on the Sessions tab on the left-side menu.
Create a new session
Click on the + Add session button on the top-right corner of the page to schedule a meeting.
Once you’re on the Sessions page, you can view all your past sessions completed as well as the upcoming sessions which you can schedule by using the + Add session button on the top-right corner of the page.
Choose the required platform
A pop-up window will appear showing you the supported platforms. Click on YouTube
Authorize StreamAlive to have access to your YouTube account
This will ask you to choose the google account that is linked with your YouTube account.
Once authorized, StreamAlive can then pick up your scheduled streams to connect to.
Select one of your scheduled live streams
StreamAlive will automatically retrieve the scheduled YouTube Live streams that you created.
Note: Please also note that you must schedule or start a streaming session, before connecting to StreamAlive. See the first part of this tutorial for instructions.
Add your presentation to the session
Your presentation contains your polls, word clouds, spinner wheels, and other interactions that are powered through StreamAlive using the chat.
If you don't have a presentation prepared you can continue without one and use the quick interactions instead.If you want to use a presentation to plan your interactions and slides in advance, you can create a presentation by clicking on the + New presentation button on the bottom left corner of the pop-up.
Now, once selected, click on Add session.
Your session has been scheduled.
When the time comes, find your scheduled session and click on Present
Display of the Live Presentation Screen
Once you’ve clicked on Present, you will be taken to the live presentation screen where you can run and manage your presentation slides and interactions.
Share your screen
Once completed, use the share screen option through YouTube Live to share the tab of StreamAlive live presentation screen with your audience. It’s just like sharing a PowerPoint or Google Slides presentation.
Ask your audience to type their answers in the chat
When the interaction you created in your presentation is shown on the screen you can ask your audience to enter their answers in the chat. StreamAlive will automatically pick up their answers and update the interaction on your screen in real time.
StreamAlive powers the interaction
The StreamAlive bot will then take these responses and power the interaction.
With this, you have successfully connected StreamAlive to Youtube Live.
To learn about how the interactions work, check out our articles by clicking here.