YouTube'southward live streaming support has gotten much meliorate and is now a solid competitor to Twitch. If you're an aspiring content creator with an audience on YouTube, you lot might want to live stream on a platform where you're already established instead of splitting your viewer base.

Step Ane: Install OBS

OBS is a streaming and recording programme that's popular with live streams. Information technology captures your game's output and then streams it to YouTube or Twitch. OBS is pretty uncomplicated to set but comes with a lot of avant-garde settings y'all can configure.

Generally, you'll get a decent performance hit running recording software at the same time as your game. If y'all have a low-end system, you might not be able to stream effectively, though you can accommodate the settings and quality of the recorder to match your needs.

Pace Two: Grab Your Steam Primal and Set OBS

Correct-click your avatar in the top right corner of the YouTube'southward settings then select "Creator Studio." Yous'll notice your stream key in the  "Live Streaming" department under "Encoder Setup."

Open up OBS, and have it start the machine-configuration wizard. Once it gets to the "Stream Information" pane, alter from Twitch to YouTube and and so paste in the stream fundamental from YouTube's settings.

This stream fundamental must be kept surreptitious, as anyone with it tin can alive stream on your channel. If your key does manage to go out, y'all tin reset it from the YouTube dashboard.

Step Three: Set Up Your Stream Info

Y'all'll have to set up your stream info separately for every live stream. YouTube works a fleck differently than Twitch when it comes to streaming. On Twitch, you but select the game you're playing and set a stream championship. On YouTube, live streams are the same every bit videos and need thumbnails, titles, descriptions, and all the metadata that goes into a regular video. Y'all as well have the pick of making the alive stream public, unlisted, or private, for testing out stream settings before going live.

Nether "Stream Options" y'all tin enable or disable DVR, brand the stream archive after you lot're washed, and choose your latency settings. You can also add a filibuster here if yous accept a trouble with stream sniping.

Under "Avant-garde Settings" you lot tin can configure the chat options, including turning on tiresome mode and preventing non-members from chatting (YouTube's form of Twitch subs).

From there, yous can hit "Start Streaming" in OBS, and you should see that y'all've gone live in the YouTube dashboard.

If you've got monetization enabled on your YouTube business relationship, y'all can enable ads on the stream and allow people to donate in chat. If you've got a second monitor, it'south a good thought to pop that dashboard over to it and so you can monitor the stream and read chat at the aforementioned time.