 How to live stream successfully on YouTube with OBS. Hey guys, have you wanted to do a live stream? You wondered how they did it. You got in there and it looked all complicated where you're gonna wanna watch this video to the very end because I'm gonna show you in just a few simple steps. How you can actually live stream on YouTube with free software. All right, let's get going. But before we do, don't forget to smash that like button down there. That's super important. Put a comment below, ask me a question. Tell me something cool. Tell me who you are, where you're from. Something in the comment section down there. And don't forget, turn on all bell notifications so that I can notify you every single time I do a new video. You're part of the Fisher family, the VIP group that gets notified before anybody else. All right, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna jump over to YouTube first and then I'm gonna jump over to OBS and I'm gonna show you on screen the step-by-step method for doing this. Let's get going. Okay, I'm at YouTube right now and that's real important. You've gotta be logged in. You have to have a YouTube channel to actually live stream, so make sure you do that. Now up at the top here, as you can see, I'm gonna click on my little face right there. And when I do that, this menu comes up right here and I wanna go over to YouTube Studio right here. And as I get into YouTube Studio, the next thing I'm gonna be looking for is my videos. So I'm gonna go right here to Videos. Now there's two ways to live stream. You can either live stream as soon as you go in there or you can schedule a live stream of which I do a lot of scheduled live stream. So I wanna show you how to do that. But what you're gonna wanna do is you're gonna wanna come over here, see where it says uploads. These are the videos that I've already uploaded, okay? That's not what I want. What I wanna do is go over to Live right here and click on Live. And when I do that, I'm gonna see all these videos here. These are all the live streams I've done. But I wanna start a new one. So what I'm gonna do, and there's a couple ways to do this, but I'm gonna go up here to where it says Create right here and click. Now it's gonna say, do I wanna upload videos? Do I wanna go live? Do I wanna create a post? I wanna go live, okay? So I'm gonna click here and go live. And what I'll do is I'll schedule one for a little bit over a week right now. Now it's gonna see one of your last lives that you've scheduled here. Now this one here has not gone live yet. I haven't done it yet. But what I'm gonna do is go right here and go Schedule Stream. And then I don't wanna use the same settings because I'll have the same stream and you'll understand that in a second. I'm gonna click Create New, okay? So I'm gonna put in here what this is. And this is gonna be live Q and A with gift card giveaway. I'm gonna put giveaway. I give away gift card. So you guys, you may wanna check that out because you could get a free gift card. Oh, that's not giveaway. It's not giveaway. It's giveaway. There we go. Okay, now I have a lot of this pre-populated that always goes on to my videos. I've said it that way. But what you have to do down here next is you have to select when you're gonna do this. So I'm gonna click on this and I'm gonna do it on December the 11th, okay? Which is, no, I'm gonna do it on the 12th, which is a little over a week from now. So I click the 12th, I'm gonna put the time in here and I'm gonna put 10 a.m. And this is gonna be set to your time zone. So before you do this, you may wanna check out when your people are gonna be online. I'm gonna pick at 10 a.m. right here, okay? Now the next thing you wanna do is upload a custom thumbnail right here. I'm not gonna do it on this one because I don't have one ready. But that's something that's really important to do so that you get a good click through rate. So I'm gonna go ahead and scroll down here on this. And you also wanna put in here, yes, it's made for kids or no, it's not made for kids. If it is made for kids, you cannot monetize this, okay? So if you're making videos for kids, you can't monetize. You cannot advertise to children. They don't allow it. So right here, I'm gonna put no, it's not made for kids because it's not, I don't have kids that watch my channel. So I'm gonna go right here and let me get this downsized a little bit. There we go, okay? And I'm gonna go right here and I'm gonna click create stream, okay? So it's now creating this. And here it is, the one I created right here, okay? This is the one for December 12th. Now the next thing you need to do is you need to go over to OBS software and download OBS. Now what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna move over to OBS. I'm gonna assume you've already done that and I'm gonna show you how to create a stream in OBS, okay? So let's go over here and do that. And I'm gonna go to OBS right here. I have it in my strip right down here. So I can just click on it. Now as you can see, it already sees me on here. This is the last one I did in OBS. Now what I did right here is I've added all these different things. I have an audio capture. I have audio output capture input. I have, there's a text that I put right here. So what I'll do is I'll just delete some of these. Like I'm gonna take this text out right here and I'm gonna delete that and I'm gonna click yes. And I have a Logi camera but it's not on here. So I'm gonna go ahead and delete that too. And that is gone now. So now what it's doing is it's using my computer camera and my desktop. These are all things that reside in here. Now if I were to take the desktop and drag it to the top here, okay, then it's gonna show that on top of everything else. If I wanna have my computer camera on top, I can put it right here. Now a lot of times you'll see where somebody will have like a picture in picture. So I can click this. Let me click this one right here, my computer camera. And I'm gonna grab this corner and I'm gonna downsize it like that. See how I downsized it. So that I am now in the corner of the screen here. So I could show my screen and I could put the desktop here and show the screen and show me too. So wherever I go to on the computer, it's gonna show whatever I'm showing on the screen here. Now, how do you actually stream it? How you stream it is you go over here to Settings, okay? And you're gonna have this one button right here. This is Stream. I'm gonna click on that and there's a Stream key here and I'm gonna, okay? And then I'm gonna get the stream for the new live. So I'm gonna go back over here to my stream, which is this one right here. So I'm gonna go right here. Now, this is the stream I just created and as you can see, there's nothing here whatsoever. What I need to do is go down here and get the Stream key. So I'm gonna click Copy. I now have the Stream key, okay? Cause I've copied it. I'm gonna go back over to OBS, which is right here. I'm gonna click on, I've already clicked on Settings. I'm gonna click right here, put the Stream key in here, okay? And I will put the Stream key in here and then I'm gonna click Okay. Okay, so now I've got the Stream key in there. Now, to get this thing going, OBS actually will record your entire stream as you go live. So I'm gonna click here and click Start Streaming. Now, are you sure you wanna stream? I'm gonna say yes. Now, you don't have to worry cause it's not gonna go live on YouTube until you make it go live. It's gonna take a second. It says I have excellent connection, which is good and it's gonna populate right here what everybody's gonna see, okay? So let's wait for that to happen and it is populating and it takes a minute or two so, you know, don't get impatient. So this is what it sees now. It sees me seeing the screen because I have that and then I've got my picture in picture right here. Now, if I wanna go live, which I'm not gonna do this cause this would actually go live on YouTube, all I have to do is click that button right there and I'm gonna be live on YouTube. Now, the cool thing about it, I'm gonna close this for a second, is I can type any type of comments there. I can put hello right here and I could send that out and that would be in the comments section there. So it says hello and it's gonna highlight me because this is my channel, JR Fisher Training right here. So basically, you know, that's all you have to do to create one of these streams. I wouldn't tell you this, if you're gonna create a stream and you're gonna do this and you want people to show up, first off, it's hard to get people to show up to a live anymore. I will have a small amount of people show up to the live but a whole bunch of people, maybe 10 times as many actually watch it on down the road and as our channel grows, of course that grows too. But you've gotta understand that people now know that even if it's live, it's probably gonna be recorded, okay? But we still wanna let them know. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna email those people and let them know maybe a day or two in advance. I have one coming up Saturday. This is Thursday now, I had to think about that. So I'm gonna email them today and Friday and Saturday and let them know that I had this live stream coming up. I'm also gonna post it. I'm gonna post it on Facebook. I may actually go live on Facebook and let them know like 15, 20 minutes before I'm going live to get more and more people on it. I'll do different things on live streams. I'll give away gift cards. I answer questions. I help people out. I don't try to sell anything on my live stream. If you get in a habit of doing that guys, you're gonna lose your audience. They come there for a live stream because it's free, okay, it's really hard to market or sell something on a live stream. It's not really the place for it. But if you give enough value there, they will send you money. I know I've had a lot of people send me money over the years and have some pretty happy people, okay? And you can do that too. There's courses below. You're welcome to do that. You can send me money. But that's really all it is to it guys. It's your YouTube and it's your OBS software. There's a lot of other streaming softwares. This is not exhaustive of what you can use. I tell you about OBS because it's free. A lot of them out there charge. You can't do as much with OBS. You can do with some of the ones that charge. However, it's free. Let me reiterate that, it's free. Okay, that goes to anything. That's why I'm telling you about it. Okay, so I hope this helps you out. I hope gives you a better understanding of what live streaming is. Once you've live streamed or during live stream, I should say during live stream, people cannot comment. All they can do is chat with you. But after the live stream is over with, it resides on your channel. People can watch it later and they can comment in there. So you do have that availability. So that's really all there is to it. It's very, very simple. I hope you enjoyed this video. I hope you got something out of it. If you did, give me a thumbs up. I would really appreciate it. Don't forget to comment below and turn on all notifications. Subscribe to the channel. You got to turn that red button gray there. 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