YouTube has over 2 Billion users that stream over 500 million hours per day. About 10% of this video is streamed live. Videolinq is fully integrated with YouTube and you can send YouTube video from Videolinq in one of these ways:

From the Videolinq channel select "New Destination" and add YouTube as a new destination.

When prompted, select the connect manually mode and select the "Login to YouTube" option. Follow the prompts.

Give the destination a name you will remember. Add a title and description. Change default settings, and click "Save". Closed captioning insertion (CEA-608) is enabled by default when using this method.

Important: Due to YouTube integration restrictions, when using the YouTube "Login" option, you can only create 1 Videolinq destination to YouTube. The next destination must be set up in "Manual" mode.

From the Videolinq channel select "Add Destination" and add YouTube as a new destination. When prompted, select the "Connect manually" option, and follow these steps. We call this option the "connect manually" mode.

Step 1:

Log in to YouTube and click on the "Go Live" icon (upper right side). This will open YouTube Studio.

Step 2:

Configure your stream name, select broadcast security, and indicate if the content if for children or not. Save settings.

Step 3:

In the next screen enable DVR (ability to rewind the broadcast when live), and if you are using Videolinq to add real-time closed captioning to the stream, select from the drop-down the "Embedded 608-708" option.

Step 4:

Copy the RTMP path and stream key.

Step 5:

In Videolinq create a YouTube destination and select the manual connection mode. In the window paste the YouTube RTMP path and stream key to the Videolinq YouTube manual mode window, give it a name, and save settings.

Step 6:

Activate the Videolinq channel. When you see video in the preview player push "Go Live".

Step 7:

Start the YouTube destination. The Videolinq stream (with closed captioning when applicable) will be sent to the YouTube channel and go live there. When the broadcast ends, click on the "End Stream" icon to stop the video on the YouTube channel. Stop the Videolinq stream too.

Step 8:

(Optional) At the end of the broadcast, you can trim the recorded clip on the YouTube Studio interface by removing unwanted footage from the beginning and the end of the clip. If you send real-time closed captioning with the video from Videolinq to YouTube, captions will be visible on the recorded stream.

Important:

When the broadcast ends, remember to create a new stream copy again the RTMP path, and stream key to the Videolinq manual mode destination. Stream keys used by a YouTube broadcast expire after the event ends.