Streaming a Zoom Meeting or Webinar on YouTube Live

Overview

You can stream a Zoom Meeting or Webinar live on YouTube. This allows participants to join your meeting via Zoom to view it and comment on it via YouTube. During the live event, there will be an approximate 30-second delay between the actual Zoom Meeting or Webinar, and the Live stream Main Stage.

This article covers:

• Enabling Youtube Live Streaming for Meetings
  • Account Level
  • Group Level
  • User Level
• Enabling Youtube Live Streaming for Webinars
• Initiating a Live Stream to Youtube
  • Direct Streaming From a Meeting or Webinar
  • Streaming a Meeting or Webinar to a Youtube Event

Prerequisites

Streaming for Meetings

• Pro, Business, Education, or Enterprise account
• The Host is Licensed
• Zoom Client version 4.4.53582 or higher on PC or a Mac
• Live Stream is enabled on YouTube

Streaming for Webinars

• Pro, Business, Education, or Enterprise account
• The Host has a Webinar add-on
• Zoom Client version 4.0 or higher on PC or a Mac
• Live Stream is enabled on Youtube

Enabling Youtube Live Streaming for Meetings

Account Level 

To enable all members of your organization to live stream meetings on Youtube:

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an administrator with the privilege to edit account settings.
2. Click Account Management > Account Settings.
3. Toggle the Allow live streaming the meetings under In Meeting (Advanced), and enable Youtube.
   
4. (Optional) If you want to make this setting mandatory for all users in your account, click the lock icon, and then click Lock to confirm the setting.

Group Level

To enable all members of a specific group to live stream meetings on Youtube:

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal as an administrator with the privilege to edit groups.
2. Click User Management > Group Management.
3. Click the name of the group, then click the Settings tab.
4. Toggle the Allow live streaming the meetings under In Meeting (Advanced), and enable Youtube.
   
   Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at the Account level and needs to be changed at that level.
5. (Optional) If you want to make this setting mandatory for all users in this group, click the lock icon and then click Lock to confirm the setting.

User Level

To enable live streaming for the meetings that you host on Youtube:

1. Sign in to the Zoom web portal.
2. Click Account Management > Account Settings (if you are an account administrator) or Settings (if you are an account member).
3. Toggle Allow live streaming the meetings under In Meeting (Advanced), and enable Youtube.
   
   Note: If the option is grayed out, it has been locked at either the Group or Account level, and you will need to contact your Zoom administrator to make changes.

Enable Youtube Live Streaming for Webinars

1. As an Owner or Account Admin, sign in to the Zoom web portal.
2. Go to Account Management > Webinar Settings.
3. Click Edit to the right of In Webinar Settings.
4. Enable Allow hosts to live stream to webinars, and then enable Youtube.
5. Click Save. 

Initiating a Live Stream to Youtube

Direct Streaming From a Meeting or Webinar

1. Start the Webinar or Meeting.
2. More in the Meeting/Webinar Controls.
3. Click Live on YouTube. 
   
4. Log in to YouTube.

Adding this Stream to your Main Hall

1. Copy the video URL from YouTube
2. Go back to your event's Main Page on EventHub and scroll down to Main Hall Track.
3. Click the add button, and paste in the URL from YouTube (and fill out required info, like when you want it to begin and end showing on the Main Stage) 

Once it goes live, it will be up at both the YouTube URL, and on top of your Main Hall (and with attendees as they scroll down and through booths!).

This is a screenshot from one of our events where they had a Zoom Meeting with Screensharing. This is what the Main Stage looked like when the speaker was screensharing.