YouTube Expands Live Streaming To All Channels

An anonymous reader writes "YouTube today announced it is expanding its live streaming service to all YouTube channels. The Google-owned company now only has two requirements: your account must be verified and it has to be in good standing. If you have both, but don't see the feature yet, don't worry as it's rolling out 'over the next few weeks.' YouTube Live was previously only available to a small number of individuals and YouTube partners whom Google deemed worthy to test it out. The video site then opened up the feature to channels with at least 1,000 subscribers, and then at least 100 subscribers. Now it's available to all."

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Elephant in the room

[rsilvergun]

Right here.

Re:Elephant in the room

[Black LED]

Google has been slowly making Youtube worse. First they get rid of channel customization, then they get rid of the ability to have a background image, then they start repeatedly asking for your real name and most recently they make it a requirement that you have a Google+ account to upload videos or to post comments.

Vimeo, Blip and Twitch are looking better every day.

Re:Elephant in the room

[tlhIngan]

Google has been slowly making Youtube worse. First they get rid of channel customization, then they get rid of the ability to have a background image, then they start repeatedly asking for your real name and most recently they make it a requirement that you have a Google+ account to upload videos or to post comments.

Vimeo, Blip and Twitch are looking better every day.

It's even worse for content creators. Dave Jones (EEVBlog) rants about the changes that affect content creators. These include changes to the commenting system such that it's practically impossible to do a proper reply, including notifications when new comments are posted. Even worse is that all the stuff you get notified about now only happens via G+.

And Twitch is only good for gaming videos - as PS4 owners found out using the camera accessory. At one point Twitch had to ban uploads from PS4s for it, and now they've hidden those links until they're manually approved.

Vimeo might be the best alternative.

Re:Elephant in the room

[firex726]

Actually Vimeo expressly prohibits gaming related videos.

http://vimeo.com/help/guidelines
> No screen-captures of video games or gameplay videos, even if edited.

Actual game developers are the only exception.

There is likely to be an exodus of Youtube.

[Zombie Ryushu]

There is likely to be an exodus of Youtube. The thing is, that Youtube's current Copyright regime will destroy Youtube. Youtube is fast becoming a site where we are all gullty until Proven innocent, or guilty until guilty no matter what. Hopefully, other sites will appear and take Youtube's place. Even Mark from Classic Game Room is leaving.

Re:There is likely to be an exodus of Youtube.

[phantomfive]

Hopefully, other sites will appear and take Youtube's place.

This is why Youtube will still be around. There are already plenty of other sites, but even people like you who are frustrated with Youtube are unaware of those s ites.

yay!!

[wbr1]

Live cat videos!

Re:Google is hoping

[bill_mcgonigle]

why would anyone stream from Youtube?

Because they want to see the content that's being offered. Why is this a question?

Re:Too little too late.

[Anne Thwacks]

Unfortunately, Twitch does not have any content (apart from games).

Youtube? What's Youtube?

[Rosco P. Coltrane]

When Google started shoving G+ down everyYoutube user's throat, I abandoned my 10+ year old Youtube account and moved all my videos to Vimeo and Dailymotion.

Youtube is Google is a privacy nightmare.

The last video I posted on Youtube before letting my account go derelict is a static image with a text describing why I will upload my videos elsewhere, and where to find them, and that video got many, MANY likes and comments from upset users. To me, that says I'm far from being the only Youtube user who's sickened by what Google has turned it into.

It's an interesting development

[93 Escort Wagon]

Several month ago we set up a server to live stream some of our faculty lectures. Now we'll have to look into whether it makes sense to continue running our own server - it's not like YouTube is unreliable or costs us anything, and we already post the recordings on our YouTube channel afterward.

But I must admit the ham-handed attempts by Google to force you into maintaining a Google+ presence to go along with your YouTube channel is highly annoying! And I do wonder if yet another shoe will be dropping soon. If Google thought they could force everyone to share their YouTube videos from their Google+ pages without killing their cash cow, I'm sure they'd have done it by now. At present, all they've succeeded at is annoying people.