Moderate live chat

1. Open YouTube Studio.
2. From the left, click Settings   Community.
3. From the Automated Filters tab, click in the “Moderators” box.
4. Type the name of the user you want to make a moderator.
5. Click Save.

From your live chat feed

Select menu  next to the username in chat and select Add moderator.

1. Open YouTube Studio.
2. From the left, click Settings   Community.
3. From the Automated Filters tab  “Blocked words,” enter a list of blocked words. Messages containing any of these words will be blocked from your live chat.
4. Click Save.

1. Go to YouTube Studio.
2. From the left, tap Settings   Community  Defaults.
3. Under “Messages in your live chat,” check or uncheck Hold potentially inappropriate chat messages for review.

• If you select SHOW: chat messages are displayed in the chat stream at the original time they were entered.
• If you select HIDE: chat messages remain hidden from viewers.
• If you take no action: chat messages remain hidden from viewers.

Turn on in Live Control Room  Streaming

1. Create a live stream. After entering  title and description, click Create Stream.
2. Click Settings.
3. Click Live Chat.
4. Toggle on Slow mode.

1. Go to your live dashboard
2. In the chat module, click Settings .
3. Select Enable slow mode and enter how many seconds each user must wait between posts. The minimum is 1 second, the maximum is 300 seconds.

1. Sign in to YouTube Studio.
2. At the top right, click CREATE   Go live .
3. From the left, click Stream.
4. Create a stream:
   1. To copy a previous stream: Select a previous stream and click Reuse settings.
   2. To create a new stream: Enter your stream's info and click Create stream.
5. From the top right, click Edit.
6. Under "Live chat," select Enable members-only chat.
7. Click Save.

You can turn Live chat on or off at any time, even after the event has started.

Live Control Room

Stream and webcam: From the top right, click Edit  Live Chat  Enable live chat.

• Delete the message.
• Place the user in time out.
• Hide the user from the chat message feed or comments section on your channel.

1. From the live chat feed, find a message from the viewer that you want to hide.
2. Next to the message, click More   Hide user.

1. Open YouTube Studio.
2. From the left, click Settings   Community.
3. From the Automated Filters tab  “Hidden users,” type the name of the viewer you want to hide. 
4. To unhide a viewer, click the X next to their name. They can now leave comments and live chat messages on your channel.
5. Click Save.

1. Go to youtube.com/my_videos.
2. Click the Live tab.
3. Select a video.
4. Click the More options tab.
5. Deselect the box next to "Allow Live chat replay."

1. Go to History.
2. On the right of the page, click Live chat.
3. Scroll down and find the live chat message. To delete it, hover over it and click X.

1. Get the video ID for the live stream. You can get the video ID from the watch page URL (youtube.com/watch?v=12345). In this case, the video ID is ‘12345’.
   • If you chose "Stream now," right-click on the player and select Copy video URL to get the video URL.
2. Get the domain URL for the site you want to embed chat on. If you're embedding chat on www.example.com/youtube_chat, your embedding domain is "www.example.com."
3. Combine the embedded URL in the following way: https://www.youtube.com/live_chat?v=12345&embed_domain=www.example.com.
   • This is the URL for your iframe. Note the embed_domain must match the the URL of the page you’re embedding the chat on. If they are different, the embedded chat will not load.