YouTube App: Live Streaming Videos For All Users

Soon, the YouTube app will be updated and provide users with the ability to stream content live. Users will be able to choose a thumbnail for the live streaming video that will be recorded/uploaded to the platform, and of course they will be able to chat in real time with users watching their stream.

YouTube mobile live streaming will be baked right into the core YouTube mobile app. You won’t need to open anything else, just hit the big red capture button right there in the corner, take or select a photo to use as a thumbnail, and you can broadcast live to your fans and chat in near real time<

Because it’s built right into the YouTube app, mobile live streaming will have all the features your regular videos have—you’ll be able to search for them, find them through recommendations and playlists and protect them from unauthorized uses. And since it uses YouTube’s peerless infrastructure, it’ll be faster and more reliable than anything else out there.

Due to the fact that the new functionality is natively built into the YouTube app, the mobile live streaming videos will have all the features we have grown accustomed to in the recent years regarding YouTube videos: appear on search lists and the suggested videos, add to playlists, as well as the ability to protect privacy with access levels.

Better late than never for the YouTube app, since both Twitter with Periscope and Facebook with Live videos have managed to become established in the public consciousness, in a category that, a few years ago, YouTube was a single player without opponent.

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