YouTube Expands Live Streaming To All Channels 71
An anonymous reader writes "YouTube today announced it is expanding its live streaming service to all YouTube channels. The Google-owned company now only has two requirements: your account must be verified and it has to be in good standing. If you have both, but don't see the feature yet, don't worry as it's rolling out 'over the next few weeks.' YouTube Live was previously only available to a small number of individuals and YouTube partners whom Google deemed worthy to test it out. The video site then opened up the feature to channels with at least 1,000 subscribers, and then at least 100 subscribers. Now it's available to all."
Elephant in the room (Score:5, Insightful)
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Vimeo, Blip and Twitch are looking better every day.
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It's even worse for content creators. Dave Jones (EEVBlog) rants about the changes that affect content creators [eevblog.com]. These include changes to the
Re:Elephant in the room (Score:4, Informative)
Actually Vimeo expressly prohibits gaming related videos.
http://vimeo.com/help/guidelines [vimeo.com]
> No screen-captures of video games or gameplay videos, even if edited.
Actual game developers are the only exception.
Dailymotion is where they're going (Score:2)
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Dave Jones (EEVBlog) rants about the changes that affect content creators [eevblog.com]. These include changes to the commenting system such that it's practically impossible to do a proper reply, including notifications when new comments are posted. Even worse is that all the stuff you get notified about now only happens via G+.
Some of his complaints were fixed. It's possible to reply normally now. What still bugs is that to see the parent comment by clicking the "in reply to (name)", the whole video page reloads. In the past, it did not.
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It is worth mentioning that the Youtube Center browser extension can disable DASH and make many other improvements to Youtube's interface. Firefox [mozilla.org] Chrome [google.com]
There is likely to be an exodus of Youtube. (Score:5, Interesting)
There is likely to be an exodus of Youtube. The thing is, that Youtube's current Copyright regime will destroy Youtube. Youtube is fast becoming a site where we are all gullty until Proven innocent, or guilty until guilty no matter what. Hopefully, other sites will appear and take Youtube's place. Even Mark from Classic Game Room is leaving.
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Hopefully, other sites will appear and take Youtube's place.
This is why Youtube will still be around. There are already plenty of other sites, but even people like you who are frustrated with Youtube are unaware of those s ites.
Oh really? (Score:2)
Can you let me know of some sites where I can host my videos for free, and also earn a share of the advertising?
Youtube is more or less the only option.
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Realites of business today (Score:2)
Not to give them a free pass, but this 'guilty until proven innocent' is a byproduct of the entertainment industries. If you don't operate this way you WILL be sued by them, and if you are small ( your new start-ups you are wishing for ) you will go out of business. If you are large it will eat away at your bottom line and your board will complain.
My hunch is that Google execs could really care less what is on YouTube personally, and really hate spending the extra resources playing 'copyright cop' but they
yay!! (Score:3)
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Live cat videos!
What???... Is this the new section of the amateur streaming adult entertainment channel [youtube.com]?
(ducks)
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Live cop videos! They can't steal your film anymore.
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Even better than that... [ipetcompanion.com]
(if you can stomach installing Silverlight)
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Where? :P
Google is hoping (Score:2)
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why would anyone stream from Youtube?
Because they want to see the content that's being offered. Why is this a question?
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And on the mobile you cannot watch past broadcasts, only live ones; and not offered on the PS3.
Meanwhile damn near anything with a screen or that can output to one will have a Youtube app on it.
Stopped using gmail two months ago (Score:2)
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Wirecast for YouTube (Score:2)
Wirecast for YouTube is Here! [telestream.net]
YouTube playback issues (Score:2)
Indeed. That will, eventually, kill YouTube far more effectively than intrusive ads or changes in terms of service.
I first noticed playback issues earlier this year. Everybody is complaining about it. The support forums are full of platitudes about updating plugins and flushing one's cache. None of which makes any difference: YouTube is broken. And if it doesn't actually work, i.e. deliver content, the advertising is going to be irrelevant.
My preferred browser is Chrome, BTW. If YouTube doesn't work pro
Youtube? What's Youtube? (Score:4, Interesting)
When Google started shoving G+ down everyYoutube user's throat, I abandoned my 10+ year old Youtube account and moved all my videos to Vimeo and Dailymotion.
Youtube is Google is a privacy nightmare.
The last video I posted on Youtube before letting my account go derelict is a static image with a text describing why I will upload my videos elsewhere, and where to find them, and that video got many, MANY likes and comments from upset users. To me, that says I'm far from being the only Youtube user who's sickened by what Google has turned it into.
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Interesting.
I do not have a G+ account (nor twitter, nor FB, nor Pinterest, etc), but I have my YouTube account. And, while they do ask for a name or did awhile back ask to join G+, I just ignored that and they let me keep my account
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My Vimeo issue (Score:2)
It's an interesting development (Score:4, Interesting)
Several month ago we set up a server to live stream some of our faculty lectures. Now we'll have to look into whether it makes sense to continue running our own server - it's not like YouTube is unreliable or costs us anything, and we already post the recordings on our YouTube channel afterward.
But I must admit the ham-handed attempts by Google to force you into maintaining a Google+ presence to go along with your YouTube channel is highly annoying! And I do wonder if yet another shoe will be dropping soon. If Google thought they could force everyone to share their YouTube videos from their Google+ pages without killing their cash cow, I'm sure they'd have done it by now. At present, all they've succeeded at is annoying people.
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Just remember that YouTube will be showing ads to your students, and some of those ads are unskippable.
Is that the corporate/educational image you want for your institution? Students should not be distracted by advertising when they go to your website to watch lectures for classes.
I strongly encourage you to pull the plug from YouTube and host your own video material. It's VERY easy to do these days, just encode up the video in the right format and use one of the many open source player "widgets" (for want
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Education Apps customers actually have the option of not allowing ads to be included with their YouTube videos.
At this point in time, in any case.
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But I must admit the ham-handed attempts by Google to force you into maintaining a Google+ presence to go along with your YouTube channel is highly annoying!
You can always make a G+ account just for the purpose of youtube, yet never use it for anything else, right?
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Yet if you do not enable multiple account signins, Google will be more than happy to merge your accounts together. It's constantly asking even post-merge if I want to keep my youtube signin and name versus using my G+ profile.
I'm Unfamiliar (Score:1)
Can someone explain to me how this service compares to the likes of UStream or Twitch.tv?
What is this YouTube service intended to be used for?
How is it better or worse than the previously mentioned services?
This news + Chromecast = Awesome! (Score:1)
I welcome the opportunity to view live content via Chromecast!