You can use Google Meet to stream a meeting live on YouTube.
This feature is currently available to the following Workspace editions:
- Enterprise Starter
- Enterprise Standard
- Enterprise Plus
- Education Plus
- Teaching and learning upgrade
- Workspace Individual Subscriber
- Google One Subscribers with 2TB or more storage space
Eligibility to stream
To live stream:
- The YouTube channel must be approved to live stream. This can take up to 24 hours to get approval. Learn how to start live streaming.
- The YouTube channel that you can use must be connected to the meeting you’re in. Learn how to add or remove access to your YouTube channel.
- Only people who can use the linked YouTube channels can start the live stream from Meet.
- If host management is off: Anyone in the host’s organization can start a live stream.
- If host management is on: Only the hosts and co-hosts can start a live stream.
Tip: To make it easy, make the person who wants to start the live stream a co-host. Learn how to add co-hosts in Google Meet.
To start a live stream:
- Join the meeting with the same email you use for the YouTube channels you want to stream to.
- Since you can’t start a live stream from a mobile device, join the meeting from a computer.
- If you don't have Google Workspace Individual or a Google One Premium membership, your company's admin needs to turn this feature on for you. Learn how to turn live streaming to YouTube on or off.
Start or create a YouTube live stream from Meet
- In a Google Meet call, from the bottom right, click Activities
.
- Select Live streaming
Stream with YouTube.
- On the "Event Info" panel, select the channel you want to stream to, then click Select or create an event.
- If you create a new event, enter the following details:
- Event title
- Privacy level
- The language for captions displayed on YouTube
- Review YouTube’s Terms of Service.
- Click Start Streaming.
- From the panel, copy the Live stream link.
- Share the link with anyone you want to attend your YouTube Live stream.
- To end the Live stream, click Stop Streaming.
View YouTube Live stream analytics
- During a meeting: Hosts and co-hosts can review YouTube analytics data in real time. Learn how to see your Live stream’s metrics.
- After a meeting: The meeting host and co-hosts receive an email with a Google Sheets report with the following info:
- Start Time
- Stop Time
- LiveStream duration
- Likes (public)
- Views (public)
Tips:
- You can’t pause a YouTube Live stream which has been initiated from Meet. You can end a Live stream and create another one from within the same meeting.
- The streamed video from Meet might get uploaded to YouTube and be accessible to users for later viewing. If necessary, the channel owner can delete the video after the meeting.