How to apply YouTube live conversation

Live chat is turned on past default. After your alive stream ends, information technology will be archived and viewers can replay the video forth with the alive chat. Live chat only shows up on YouTube watch pages – not on embedded players.

Notation: Live chat is not available if your channel or live stream's audience is set every bit 'Made for Kids'.

Live conversation views

Viewers can choose betwixt two views of live chat at any time.

  • Top conversation: This view filters messages such equally potential spam to assistance make chat easier to read and more useful.
  • Live conversation: This view is not filtered. It shows all chat messages as they come in.

Note: Live streams that are trimmed in the video editor will non have Chat replay.

Live chat badges

Live chat badges identify the Streamer  and Moderator. If your channel is eligible for memberships, you can create custom membership badges that appear in live chat too.

Emojis

Emojis are small pictures that tin can limited an emotion, idea and more than. Anyone can use a big number of emoji,  and creators can make custom emojis that are bachelor equally a aqueduct membership perk.

Add emoji to your annotate or message

On mobile: While writing a chat bulletin, tap the emoji icon on your device's keyboard and choose an emoji.

On desktop: While writing a chat bulletin, tap  Add emoji.

Note: On desktop, your choice of a gender or skin tone for emoji will be remembered. To modify your default, select a dissimilar emoji variation. Yous can clear the preference by your clearing browser cookies and other site information or signing out of YouTube.

Sending a bulletin

To mail in live chat:

  1. Click into where it says 'Say Something' and brainstorm entering text.
  2. Click Send.

Respond to someone in the chat feed

You tin can reply to someone in the chat feed by mentioning their username.

  1. Type '@'.
  2. Begin typing their username.
  3. Select the username.

Both you and the mentioned chat member will encounter their username highlighted in the live chat. This highlight makes information technology easier for them to see your response in the chat feed.

Message limitations

Viewers are express to 200 characters and a maximum of 11 submissions every 30 seconds. Event owners are not subject to the frequency threshold. Viewers cannot post special characters, URLs or HTML tags.

Subscribers-only and members-only chat

A channel can make their live conversation members-only or subscribers-only.

If the chat is subscribers-only, the aqueduct can specify how long viewers demand to have been subscribed for. To see for how long yous need to exist subscribed and for how long you've been subscribed, tap Info  from the alive chat message box.

Pivot a bulletin

You can pin your own message or a viewer's message in alive chat.

Simply you, non your moderators or viewers, tin can pin messages. Pinned messages are shown beneath Super Conversation.

  1. Go to the chat window during a live stream or a Premiere.
  2. Notice a message from live chat, even your own, and tap or click More .
  3. To pin the message, tap or click Pin .

Annotation: Yous can but pin ane message at a fourth dimension. To supplant a pinned message, simply pin another message. To unpin a bulletin, click More than on a pinned bulletin and tap Unpin.

Create a alive poll

Aqueduct owners can create and manage alive polls on their streams and Premieres. Once someone votes, they cannot alter information technology.

  1. Schedule or start a alive stream or a Premiere.
  2. From the lesser of the chat window, tap Create a poll .
  3. Create your poll, and then select Enquire your community.

To finish a poll and see the results in the chat: from the banner at the top of the chat, tap End poll.

Limitations

Live polls can:

  • only exist created from YouTube on your computer.
  • accept two to four options.
  • merely exist seen alive. They do not show upwards in live conversation replays.
  • only final upward to 24 hours.

Embed alive chat

During a live stream, y'all can embed live chat on your own site by using an iframe.

Note: Embedding live chat isn't available on mobile web.

  1. Get the video ID for the live stream. You tin get the video ID from the spotter page URL (youtube.com/spotter?five=12345). In this example, the video ID is '12345'.
  2. Get the domain URL for the site that you want to embed conversation on. If yous're embedding chat on www.example.com/youtube_chat, your embedding domain is 'world wide web.example.com'.
  3. Combine the embedded URL in the following way: https://www.youtube.com/live_chat?v=12345&embed_domain=www.instance.com.
    • This URL is for your iframe. Note that the embed_domain must friction match the URL of the page that you're embedding the chat on. If they are different, the embedded chat will not open.

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