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YouTube Live Reviews & Product Details

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What do you like best about YouTube Live?

The best part about YouTube Live is the real-time interaction with content creators and the vibrant community, making the viewing experience not just passive but engaging and dynamic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YouTube Live?

While YouTube Live offers an engaging experience, some users may find occasional technical glitches or connectivity issues a bit frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YouTube Live solving and how is that benefiting you?

YouTube Live addresses the need for real-time interaction and immediate access to diverse content, providing a dynamic platform for engagement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

YouTube Live Overview

What is YouTube Live?

YouTube Live is an easy way to reach your audience in real time. Whether you're streaming a video game, hosting a live Q&A, or teaching a class, our tools will help you manage your stream and interact with viewers in real time.

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YouTube Live is an easy way to reach your audience in real time. Whether you're streaming a video game, hosting a live Q&A, or teaching a class, our tools will help you manage your stream and interact with viewers in real time.


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5.0 out of 5
"Great platform for live event"
YouTube Live is a great way to broadcast live videos and have instant engagement with your audience.
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Borja O.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
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"The best way I know to interact with my audience in real time"
I have been using it for years to speak live to my audience (advanced Spanish students) and the experience has been very good. The ability to sched...
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"Amazing"
Being able to get my viewers live reactions in real time . And being able to connect with my viewers quickly and easily. I also like the fact that ...
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Omer S.
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What do you like best about YouTube Live?

Our mosque has multiple weekly events that we broadcast for remote audience. Pre-covid we only broadcast and record our Friday sermons, but starting with lockdown, there were other classes and events we needed to broadcast lots of events. We had audiences on Zoom, YouTube, and Facebook. Zoom is fine for interactivity, but archiving and playback are difficult. Facebook is good for reach, but not good for archiving. YouTube Live is very strong at live broadcast, archiving, and letting us edit content after the live broadcast. Our final setup ended up being a multistreamer (Castr) to broadcast to YouTube Live and Facebook. The input is either Zoom (for classes) or xsplit for live camera for sermons. I then download the YouTube Live recordings, strip the audio, and put on our podcast feed on Audioboom. YouTube Live is at the center of all this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YouTube Live?

Biggest quibble is dealing with a prematurely ended stream. Sometimes we have issues with xsplit in the middle of an event and we have to reboot the laptop. That then ends the stream, so we have to scramble to set up a new YouTube live event. There is the option of not autostopping an event if the input stops, but we like the flexibility of having the stream end when the event does end for real. What we almost need is "don't kill this stream before 60 minutes, then OK to kill"

Another minor quibble when scheduling out future events. In Ramadan I need to schedule 30 very similar nightly events. I have an additional stream key "Duplicate Event" so that I can have multiple scheduled out for the next few days (I get the warning that I ignore that itis a duplicate event), and use a separate stream key for the actual event, which I then have to manually apply each day to the event of the day. Probably some ways I can automate it, but it is something I have to look into before every broadcast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YouTube Live solving and how is that benefiting you?

YouTube Live solves the following for us

1. Archival of events for replay

2. Broadcast to people who cannot attend in person

This extends the reach of our lectures and classes well beyond the people who find the time to attend in person. We get views from out of state / out of country, and people who attended the class in person can go back and listen again or share with a friend. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about YouTube Live?

What I love about YouTube Live is that it is accessible as the button to go live and stream is just on the top corner. Having a feature where users can interact and as well as check the comments on live and on replay stream is something cool for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YouTube Live?

For now, there's nothing that I dislike, although the simplicity of it is good, the settings could have more information on what it is about, what would happen if I change it. It is kind of a technical side but nonetheless everything can be found on Google and Youtube on how to setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YouTube Live solving and how is that benefiting you?

Youtube Live streaming can be used in the business as well as the game industry. Creating a livestream that can lead to clients and as well as subscriber to check your Youtube channel content is a great way to increase my revenue or my clients' revenue. But I think for the gaming industry, it is widely use for tournaments, I myself is a gamer that follows Dota 2 tournaments, I must say that Livestreaming using Youtube is quite impressive, there are no ads in between, and interrupting when I am watching. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about YouTube Live?

Quality and reliability of YouTube Live. With COVID multiple platforms were used and tested for live participation. One frequently used what YouTube Live and Facebook Live. For me, YouTube Live and almost no streaming issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YouTube Live?

Nothing that comes to mind. The cameraman is to blame if the quality and sound is bad:-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YouTube Live solving and how is that benefiting you?

So many!

I only discovered it really during COVID. It helped me to feel connected to the world out there. I watched international church on there and now our church is using it. So when I was recently ill, I was still able to "attend".

It was special to use it for sharing my late father's funeral.

I'm a premium user of YouTube and I has so many people I subscribe to and some of the music artists have behind-the-scenes after parties, I've joined and enjoyed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about YouTube Live?

I like that anyone can start a live stream, If someone has some good talent and he wants to show it, so by live stream feature he can show his talents, and also during the live stream, he can interact with the viewers.

I am an esports athlete and I do daily live streams to teach my viewers how to grind and how they can level up their gameplay.

The Best part of YouTube live stream is the super chat part because there are so many streamers who are earning from YouTube only so via the feature of super chat viewers can support the streamer via doing super chats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YouTube Live?

Monetization can be active in the early period, I mean streamers have to wait for the activation of monetization.

If monetization gets active in the early period streamers can start earning in their starting time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YouTube Live solving and how is that benefiting you?

I love to interact & to communicate with my audience, by this YouTube live I can interact with my viewers.

By this, my face value is also increasing.

people know about me.

As a creator, I need to stay updated with the latest trends and developments in the industry, so sometimes my users help me to know about the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about YouTube Live?

The thing I adore most about YouTube Live is how people can participate and engage in real time. The site promotes a sense of immediacy and connection through various means, such as live Q&A sessions, quick comments, and direct engagement with content providers. The genuineness of live content, the opportunity to engage in dialogue, and the variety of events that are streamed—from entertainment to instructional sessions—are all valued by viewers. Unlike typical pre-recorded videos, YouTube Live creates a dynamic and interactive viewing experience by bringing people together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YouTube Live?

Users sometimes worry about sporadic technical problems with YouTube Live, like glitches, buffering, or network issues, that can ruin the viewing experience and sometimes there is a problem with customer support too, if you need any help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YouTube Live solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm organizing a two-day international webinar and live stream on YouTube Live. The announcement of government plans directly on YouTube Live is revolutionary for students. It encourages transparency, engages the tech-savvy generation, and guarantees real-time information. This strategy makes the most of accessibility by giving students access to timely information that is essential to their development. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanjay S.
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What do you like best about YouTube Live?

The advantages of YouTube LIVE are numerous and include: aiding in expanding the public's attention and reach, A readily accessible medium for face-to-face communication, Economical in terms of expansion, advertising, and revenue rise, Working with people is enjoyable and simple, Suitable for usage with mobile devices and at any time, anywhere, it facilitates monetization. I'm recently used for my college international conference live program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YouTube Live?

I believe there is one specific feature of the YouTube Live service that I dislike, which is the inability for viewers to share the live stream on different media. It is detrimental to content producers and influencers, which lowers the frequency of usage on Factbook, Instagram, and other social media platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YouTube Live solving and how is that benefiting you?

Lots of lives have been revolutionized by YouTube Live, not just mine. People are becoming more self-assured, self-reliant, and fashionable thanks to it. Live research involves videos and advertisement research areas that aid students and companies in building there ideas for world development and also advantageous for building brands and interacting with the public Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about YouTube Live?

There are so many benefits of YouTube LIVE such as :

a) Helps in increasing audience and reach to the public

b) Easily available platform for direct Interaction

c) Cost effective in terms of advertisement, growth and increase in revenue

d) Collaboration with others is quite interesting and easy

e) Can be used anywhere, anytime and even with mobile

f) Helps in monetizing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YouTube Live?

Well I think there is only one thing that I don't like about youtube live which is user can't share the live streaming to other platforms. It's not good for creators and influencers which reduces the frequency of use for instagram and Factbook or any other social media platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YouTube Live solving and how is that benefiting you?

YouTube live has changed not just my life but millions of lives. It is helping people to becoming confident, independent and trendy. It helps businesses to grow their brand and increase revenue through ads and live videos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about YouTube Live?

YouTube Live are its real-time interaction capabilities, allowing content creators to engage with their audience, and its integration with the broader YouTube platform, making it easy to manage and grow a channel with live streaming and recorded content in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YouTube Live?

Nothing much. All are pretty good. Thank you Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YouTube Live solving and how is that benefiting you?

YouTube Live are its real-time interaction capabilities, allowing content creators to engage with their audience, and its integration with the broader YouTube platform, making it easy to manage and grow a channel with live streaming and recorded content in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Siddhant G.
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What do you like best about YouTube Live?

Youtube live are integrated superbly with Youtube ecosystem. That means, lives automatically becomes part of channel. It has an incredible reach, with super chats, ads, and channel memberships gives content creators like me a good monetisation option while interacting with people real time. With all of these, its ease of use makes it super handy for little under-educated creators as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YouTube Live?

One of the most highlighting drawback of Youtube Live is its latency. With sheer volume of content and such a huge amount of similar content being on Youtube, chances of standing out becomes slimmer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YouTube Live solving and how is that benefiting you?

YouTube Live gives an option to interact with audience in real time, earn money through super chats, ads, sponsorship and channel membership. Lives are automatically integrated with channel library with option to remove it as well. It has helped me to increase my subscribers, as interacting with them gives a broader view of content they might like. A real time feedback from genuine viewers, can be very crucial for any creator to improve its content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about YouTube Live?

- Constant Association: I love that I can associate with my crowd continuously.

- Valid Minutes: It's a stage for unscripted and credible communications.

- More profound Crowd Bond: I can assemble more grounded bonds with my

watchers.

- Adaptable Substance: It suits different substance types, ideal for my

inclinations.

- Prompt Criticism: I can answer in a split second to questions and remarks.

- Adaptation: It offers ways of bringing in cash through promotions and Super

Visits.

- Local area Building: Adaptation choices fortify my watcher local area. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about YouTube Live?

Specialized Difficulties: Some of the time, specialized issues like unfortunate web availability can disturb the live insight, which can disappoint.

Savages and Pessimistic Remarks: Managing savages and pessimistic remarks continuously can genuinely burden. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is YouTube Live solving and how is that benefiting you?

- Increased Demand: I've noticed a growing interest in live content, and it's exciting to see more people engaging with my live streams.

- Monetization Options: YouTube Live offers various ways to earn money, which has been helpful for me as a creator looking to make a living doing what I love.

- Audience Engagement: I enjoy the immediate interaction with my viewers during live streams; it feels like we're building a real community.

- Diverse Content: It's fantastic how versatile YouTube Live is; I've used it for gaming, tutorials, and even Q&A sessions, making it adaptable to my interests Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.