YouTube'south alive streaming support has gotten much better and is at present a solid competitor to Twitch. If yous're an aspiring content creator with an audience on YouTube, you lot might want to live stream on a platform where you're already established instead of splitting your viewer base.

Footstep One: Install OBS

OBS is a streaming and recording program that's popular with live streams. It captures your game'south output and and then streams it to YouTube or Twitch. OBS is pretty simple to set up but comes with a lot of advanced settings you can configure.

Generally, you lot'll get a decent performance hit running recording software at the aforementioned time as your game. If y'all accept a low-end system, yous might not be able to stream effectively, though you can conform the settings and quality of the recorder to lucifer your needs.

Step Ii: Grab Your Steam Key and Prepare Up OBS

Right-click your avatar in the superlative correct corner of the YouTube's settings so select "Creator Studio." You'll find your stream key in the  "Alive Streaming" section under "Encoder Setup."

Open upward OBS, and have it start the auto-configuration sorcerer. In one case it gets to the "Stream Information" pane, change from Twitch to YouTube and then paste in the stream central from YouTube's settings.

This stream key must be kept hush-hush, equally anyone with it tin live stream on your channel. If your key does manage to get out, you lot tin can reset information technology from the YouTube dashboard.

Step Three: Gear up Your Stream Info

You'll have to set up your stream info separately for every live stream. YouTube works a bit differently than Twitch when it comes to streaming. On Twitch, you simply select the game you're playing and set a stream title. On YouTube, live streams are the aforementioned every bit videos and need thumbnails, titles, descriptions, and all the metadata that goes into a regular video. You also have the option of making the alive stream public, unlisted, or private, for testing out stream settings before going alive.

Under "Stream Options" you can enable or disable DVR, make the stream archive afterward you're done, and choose your latency settings. Yous can also add a delay here if you have a trouble with stream sniping.

Under "Avant-garde Settings" you can configure the chat options, including turning on slow mode and preventing non-members from chatting (YouTube'south grade of Twitch subs).

From there, you can hit "Start Streaming" in OBS, and you should come across that you've gone live in the YouTube dashboard.

If you lot've got monetization enabled on your YouTube account, you tin can enable ads on the stream and let people to donate in conversation. If you've got a second monitor, information technology's a practiced idea to pop that dashboard over to information technology so you tin monitor the stream and read chat at the same time.