How to use YouTube Live chat

Alive conversation is turned on by default. Afterwards your alive stream ends, it will be archived and viewers tin can replay the video along with the alive chat. Live conversation only shows upwardly on YouTube scout pages -- non on embedded players.

Note: Alive conversation is non bachelor if your aqueduct or live stream's audition is gear up every bit made for kids.

Live chat views

Viewers can choose betwixt two views of Live chat at any time.

  • Top conversation: This view filters letters such as potential spam to help make chat easier to read and more useful.
  • Live conversation: This view is not filtered. It shows all conversation letters as they come in.

Note: Alive streams that are trimmed in the video editor will not take Chat replay.

Alive chat badges

Live chat badges identify the Streamer  and Moderator. If your channel is eligible for memberships, you can create custom membership badges that testify up in live conversation also.

Emojis

Emojis are minor pictures that can limited an emotion, thought, and more. Anyone can utilize a large number of emoji, and creators can brand custom emojis that are available as a channel membership perk.

Add emoji to your comment or bulletin

On mobile: While writing a chat message, tap  to add a YouTube emojis or the emoji icon on your device'south keyboard to add emojis from your device's operating system.

On desktop: While writing a chat message, tap  Add Emoji.

Note: On desktop, you tin can printing and agree an emoji to customize the advent. Your settings will be saved for futurity use. To change your default, select a different emoji variation. Yous can also clear the setting by your immigration browser cookies and other site information or signing out of YouTube.

Transport a bulletin

To mail service in live conversation:

  1. Click into where information technology says "Say Something" and brainstorm entering text.
  2. Click Send.

Answer to someone in the chat feed

You tin answer to someone in the chat feed past mentioning their username.

  1. Blazon "@".
  2. Begin typing their username.
  3. Select the username.

Both you lot and the mentioned conversation member will see their username highlighted in the alive chat. This highlight makes it easier for them to come across your response in the chat feed.

Message limitations

Viewers are limited to 200 characters and a maximum of eleven submissions every xxx seconds. Event owners are non subject to the frequency threshold. Viewers cannot mail service special characters, URLs, or HTML tags.

Subscribers-only and members-just conversation

A channel tin brand their live chat members-only or subscribers-only.

If the chat is subscribers-only, the channel tin can specify how long viewers need to be subscribed. To see how long you need to exist subscribed and how long yous've been subscribed, tap Info  from the live chat message box.

Pin a bulletin

Y'all tin pin your own message or a viewer's message in Live Chat.

Only you, not your moderators or viewers, tin can pin messages. Pinned messages show below Super Chat.

  1. Go to the chat window during a live stream or a Premiere.
  2. Find a message from Live Conversation, even your ain, and tap or click More .
  3. To pin the message, tap or click Pin .

Notation: Yous can only pin ane bulletin at a time. To supercede a pinned message, simply pivot some other message. To unpin a message, click More than on a pinned message and tapUnpin.

Create a live poll

Channel owners can create and manage alive polls on their streams and Premieres. Once someone votes, they cannot alter it.

  1. Schedule or beginning a live stream or a Premiere.
  2. From the bottom of the conversation window, tap Create a poll .
  3. Create your poll, then select Inquire your community.

To end a poll and encounter the results in the chat: from the imprint at the top of the chat, tap Finish poll.

Limitations

Live polls can:

  • only be created from YouTube on your figurer.
  • have between 2 - four options.
  • only be seen live. They do not show up in alive conversation replays.
  • simply last up to 24 hours.

Embed live chat

During a alive stream, you can embed alive chat on your own site by using an iframe.

Note: embedding live chat isn't available on mobile web.

  1. Go the video ID for the live stream. You tin get the video ID from the watch folio URL (youtube.com/watch?5=12345). In this case, the video ID is '12345'.
  2. Get the domain URL for the site y'all want to embed chat on. If you're embedding chat on world wide web.example.com/youtube_chat, your embedding domain is "world wide web.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 URL is for your iframe. Note the embed_domain must match the URL of the page you're embedding the chat on. If they are unlike, the embedded conversation will non open.

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