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It’s now way easier to go live on YouTube
June 25, 2025
For a while now, to go live onYouTubemeant having to deal with the hassle of downloading and installing encoder software. You’d have to record your video through the encoder and then link the encoder stream to YouTube. It was confusing and clunky, to say the least.
Now, finally, YouTubers who wish to conduct a live stream don’t have to use any third-party software;it’s baked right into YouTube itself.
To set up a live stream, go toyoutube.com/webcamor simply pick “Go Live” from the drop-down box where you would usually upload a video. Once you’ve arrived at the live stream page, just go ahead and start your stream. That’s how easy it should have been from the beginning!
Check out the GIF below which gives you an idea of how easy the process has become:
YouTube creators have been beta testing the new live streaming process, using it to createthis beauty tutorial,this fan update, andthis product review.
Unfortunately, there is one caveat here — this new system currently only works in the Chrome browser. Google plans to bring the feature tomore browserssoon, but if you don’t use Chrome, you’re stuck with the old-fashioned encoder process for now.
Google also committed to bringing the feature to mobile devices, too. But not throughthe YouTube app, which already has live streaming built-in, but from the device’s camera app. Google’s plan is for you to open your camera app, hit the live stream button, and a stream is connected to your YouTube account just like that. Google didn’t set a date for this new rollout, but said the capability would come to select devices from ASUS, LG, Motorola, Nokia, and Samsung “in the coming months.”
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