Live stream: Set YouTube privacy settings

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Live stream privately on YouTube so that only specific people see the stream.

Who: Hosts and producers
Plan: Live, Webinar, and Business
Device: Computer browser

Step by step

  1. If you haven't already, connect your YouTube account to Riverside.
  2. Sign in to your Youtube channel.
  3. Change your privacy settings to private.
  4. Navigate back to your Riverside account.
  5. At the top of the studio, click + Live stream.
     Or, click the justheplus.svg add live stream destination icon.
  6. Next to Live stream to social, click the toggle toggle-on.svg to turn it on.
  7. Hover over your YouTube account and click the three dots.
  8. Click Stream settings.
  9. Under Privacy, select Private.
    private-arrow.png

When you start the live stream, the stream is private on your YouTube account.

Icon.svg Good to know

  • Private YouTube streams are visible only to people you choose to share them with. Set the stream to Private in both Riverside and YouTube, then add specific email addresses in your YouTube video details to give people access.
  • If you want to stream to an Unlisted YouTube video, see Can I live stream to an unlisted video on YouTube?

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