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

Zoom: 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 -- see below

Zoom: 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 -- see below

YouTube: Live Streaming

• Please refer to this help article on How to Enable Live Streaming on YouTube.
• Make sure livestreaming is enabled for your YouTube account, at least 48 hours before you're trying to go live. Fore more information, please refer to this article from Google.
• You need a monetized YouTube account in order to have your livestream embedded on a third-party site. This is required for it to be able to play on the EventHub page.

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. At the bottom right of your screen you should see More in the Meeting/Webinar Controls. Click More, and it should bring up a list of options. 
3. Click Live on YouTube. 
   
4. Log in to YouTube using the YouTube account that is enabled for livestreaming. 
5. Choose the privacy setting you want on your livestream on YouTube. You must choose either public or unlisted. 
   • Public: Anyone can watch your video on YouTube, it will notify your subscribers, and show up in Search results. 
   • Unlisted: Only people who have the direct link to the video will be able to watch it. So, if you only use that link to add the video to your Main Hall, folks will only be able to see it there. 
6. You should now see a red dot and "Live on YouTube" label in the upper left corner of your Zoom meeting. 

Adding this Stream to your Main Hall

1. Copy the YouTube video URL from the Zoom meeting. In the upper lefthand corner of Zoom, you should see a red dot and "Live on YouTube" label. Hover over this, and it will open a dropdown of options. Choose Copy Streaming Link. 
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). For a more detailed step-by-step guide on this, please refer to our tutorial on Adding Content to the Main Hall. 

Once it goes live, the video 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. 

How to Stop Live Streaming your Zoom Meeting to YouTube

When you're ready to end the stream, do the following on your Zoom meeting: 

1. In the upper lefthand corner of Zoom, you should see a red dot and "Live on YouTube" label. Click this this, and it will open a dropdown of options. Choose Stop Live Stream. 
2. Though you will still be in the Zoom meeting, the stream of that meeting through YouTube has stopped.