I need a small favor: I’m planning to livestream a...

I need a small favor: I’m planning to livestream a hyper-local candidate forum for our small town’s local election next week, but I just found out you can’t livestream from a mobile device on YouTube until your channel has 50 subscribers!

If 49 more people could subscribe to https://www.youtube.com/@CoastsideCivic (feel free to unsubscribe after Thursday next week) it would really help me out

And if you’re interested in El Granada California local elections come along on Wednesday https://coastsidecivic.com

Like 5 October at 20:08 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

20 comments

Hoppmester Fønvind Snublebluss

@simon Done

5 October at 20:12 | Open on medic.cafe

Sascha

@simon subscribed and looking forward to the stream!

5 October at 20:21 | Open on chaos.social

Filip Korling

@simon Done

5 October at 20:22 | Open on mastodon.social

charlobo

@simon
Done. You need 5 more. Good luck!!

5 October at 20:26 | Open on sfba.social

John Panzer

@simon You just hit 51!

5 October at 20:29 | Open on mastodon.social

Simon Willison

Thanks everyone! Blasted past 50, I’m still seeing this screen for some reason though

YouTube iPhone screenshot: almost there! Try creating more shorts to reach 50 subscribers and unlock live streaming

5 October at 20:50 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

Simon Willison

… apologies to all of our new subscribers, it looks like I am going to have to post a short of our chicken Blue having a bit of a fly

5 October at 20:51 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

Simon Willison

Here she is https://youtube.com/shorts/LdKWzQBxVQI

5 October at 20:52 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

Simon Willison

Update on this: YouTube still won't let me transmit live from my iPhone in their app, despite having over 100 subscribers AND a published short... but it turns out the YouTube desktop web application lets me broadcast live just fine, and I can use macOS continuity camera feature to have that broadcast using my iPhone as the microphone and video camera

So all set for Wednesday! I'll be carting both a laptop and a phone

6 October at 22:10 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

Hoppmester Fønvind Snublebluss

@simon It can take between 4 and 6 days for any change to happen. When I passed the 4000 hours and 1000 subscribers, back when, it took them six(!) weeks to even allow me to apply for monetization.

Hang in there, might be opened by the time that happens.

6 October at 23:19 | Open on medic.cafe

Simon Willison

Closing the loop on this: our event went very well, and the livestream mostly worked great bar a Firefox crash losing a few minutes of audio

I wrote up notes on what I learned about livestreaming here https://til.simonwillison.net/youtube/livestreaming

10 October at 6:50 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

Sam Machin

@simon what did you use for connectivity? Venue WiFi or tethered to your iPhone cellular? Any issues with tethering & continuity camera? That’s often the hardest part of remote streaming you can’t know what the connection will be like especially when the place is full of attendees

10 October at 7:12 | Open on chaos.social

Simon Willison

@sammachin venue WiFi, which I tested a few days ago and seemed fast enough

My backup plan was LTE, and my backup-backup plan was not to stream at all but to video the event and post to YouTube afterwards

10 October at 12:39 | Open on fedi.simonwillison.net

Paolo Melchiorre

@simon thanks for sharing your experience. We'll try to stream the next Python Pescara meetup.

Have you thought to embed video usign "youtube-lite-embed" that @thibaudcolas promoted in his DjangoCon US 2024 talks ?
https://github.com/paulirish/lite-youtube-embed