Live chat lets you have real-time interactions with your viewers during live streams and Premieres. To view your live chat, click the down arrow at the top of the chat menu and select Top chat or All chat.
Learn more about live chat or moderate your live chat.
Pin messages
You can pin your own message or a viewer's message in live chat. Pinned messages are shown below Super Chat. To pin a message:
- Go to the chat window during a live stream or Premiere.
- Find a message from live chat, even your own, and tap or click 'More'
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- Tap or click Pin
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.You can only pin one message at a time. To replace a pinned message, simply pin another message. Only you, not your moderators or viewers, can pin messages.
To unpin a message, click 'More' on a pinned message
Turn reactions on or off
You can turn reactions on or off during a live stream within your Live Control Room. You can change this setting at any point during your stream.
- On a computer, go to YouTube Studio.
- At the top right, click CREATE
Go live
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- From the Live Control Room, click the 'Stream' tab.
- Click Edit
- Select Reactions.
- Toggle the settings on or off.
.Create a live poll
- At the bottom of the chat window, tap Create a poll
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- Create your poll.
- Select Ask your community.
.To end a poll and see the results in the chat, in the banner at the top of the chat, tap End poll.
Start a Live Q&A
Live Q&A lets you find and select questions within your live chat to answer for your viewers. To start a Live Q&A:
- Schedule or start a live stream or a Premiere.
- At the bottom of the chat window, click
- Add a prompt and click Start Q&A.
Answer questions from the chat
Once you've started a Live Q&A, the 'Questions list' will appear in the chat window. To answer a question:
- Select a question from the questions list.
- Click 'Menu'
- Click Close to remove a question banner from the chat window.
End a Live Q&A
To end your Live Q&A, click End Q&A at the top of the chat. All unanswered questions in the list will be deleted and Live Q&A sessions will be available in chat replay.
- To delete a question that you've submitted that has not been pinned to chats, go to My Activity.
- To delete questions that are pinned to the chat window, click 'Menu'
Embed a live chat
During a live stream, you can embed live chat on your own site by using an iframe. Embedding live chat isn't available on mobile web.
- Get the video ID for the live stream from the watch page URL.
- Get the domain URL for the site that you want to embed chat on.
- Combine the embedded URL in the following way: https://www.youtube.com/live_chat?v=12345&embed_domain=www.example.com.
This URL is for your iframe. The embed_domain must match the URL of the page that you're embedding the chat on. If they are different, the embedded chat will not open.
- Video URLs: If your URL is youtube.com/watch?v=12345, your video ID is '12345'.
- Domain URLs: If you're embedding chat on www.example.com/youtube_chat, your embedding domain is 'www.example.com'.