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title: "Setting Up 8x8 Meetings for Live Streaming on YouTube"
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> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.8x8.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Setting Up 8x8 Meetings for Live Streaming on YouTube

## Objective

Configure your YouTube channel with 8x8 Meetings as an encoder to stream meeting content to a wide audience.

Large meetings can be handled through live streaming, and there is no limit on how many users may join the stream. YouTube allows you to control stream access and availability, so your presentation can be as public or private as you need.

## Applies To

- 8x8 Meetings
- 8x8 Work for Desktop
- YouTube

## Procedure

> [!CAUTION]
> Caution:
> 
> **Never live streamed in YouTube before?** It takes **up to** **24 hours** for YouTube to initially enable accounts for live streaming.

[Embedded content](https://www.youtube.com/embed/XehrgXKd3do)

### Enable Live Streaming

Live streaming on YouTube requires three initial steps

1. [Set up your YouTube channel.](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1646861)
2. [Verify your YouTube account.](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/171664) *(You'll need to wait up to 24 hours for YouTube to complete verification.)*
3. [Enable your channel for live streaming.](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9227509)

### Set Up a Stream

8x8 Meetings is the *encoder* you will use when setting up your YouTube live stream. We recommend following [YouTube's guidelines for live stream setup](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9227510). *(Begin from step 3.)*

> [!WARNING]
> Important:
> 
> ***Don't forget to share your live stream link!*** When setup is complete, click the **share (arrow) icon** in the upper right of YouTube's Live Control Room to view and copy your lives tream URL.

### Start the Stream

You can start a live stream from an active meeting in any of the following:

- 8x8 Work for Desktop and 8x8 Work for Mobile ([iOS](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/8x8-virtual-office/id348177448) | [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details))
- [8x8 Meetings applications](https://download.8x8.vc/)
- in-browser at a meeting URL (starting with https://8x8.vc)

1. In an active meeting, click the **More Actions** (**...**) menu**.**
2. Click **Start Live Stream**.
3. If prompted, sign in with the Google account associated with your YouTube channel.
4. Select the stream you set up earlier.
5. Click **Start Live Stream**.

A voice prompt will announce that the live stream has started. At any time, open the **More Actions** (**...**) menu and click **Stop Live Stream** to end the stream. You may optionally allow your YouTube live stream URL to remain available for playback later.

## Stream Management Recommendations

### Attendees

Only invite speaking participants to the meeting, and provide the streaming link to all other viewers. Including non-essential people in the 8x8 meeting often causes excess noise and makes it harder to have a seamless event.

### Common Stream Management Settings

In 8x8 Meetings, lock the stream to "everyone follows me." This will prevent the stream perspective from jumping between different speakers and content.

1. Click **More Actions** (**...**).
2. Select **Settings**.
3. Select **More**.
4. Check **Everyone follows me**.
5. Click **OK**.

### YouTube Live Stream Chat

YouTube Live Streaming messages do not synchronize with 8x8 Work messaging or in-meeting chat. YouTube live stream hosts should use YouTube to check these messages.