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An overview of YouTube Live and Google Hangouts on Air

An overview of YouTube Live and Google Hangouts on Air

From the course: Running a Professional Webinar

An overview of YouTube Live and Google Hangouts on Air

- Another platform that's free and quite useful is YouTube Live or Google Hangouts On Air. Originally, Google Hangouts on Air was part of Google+, but Google has spun it off and also merged it with YouTube, so you might have access to it from either way. Make sure you set up a YouTube account and that you enroll to take advantage of all of the full services by signing up for their free partner program, and this will give you full access. Simply visit YouTube and sign in to your account, access the YouTube user that you want to use, and click and go to your Creator Studio. In the left-hand column, you'll see LIVE STREAMING. Now YouTube supports multiples types of live streaming. I want you to take advantage of either an event or Stream now. Events have the benefit of being able to be scheduled, and that's what you're likely going to want for a webinar. So you can click New live event. This allows you to load up the information as well as put in a date and time and a description. You'll…

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