Live Redirect a new feature launched by YouTube to send your audience to live stream or premiere of your choice as soon as your live stream or premiere ends.
Live Redirect is great feature to keep your audience engaged. Using Live Redirect you can help your subscribers / fans to discover new creators by redirecting to other creators live streams or premieres.
Live Redirect will allows your viewers to keep engaged across multiple events automatically.
What Is Live Redirect On YouTube?
Live Redirect on Youtube lets you send your audience to live streams or premiere which you like.
Once live stream ends, Autoplay will move your fans/ audience to other live stream or premiere of your choice or which you like.
Using Redirect you can send your fans to your live streams or premiere as well other creators live streams or premiere as soon as your ends.
Other creators can also send their audience to your live stream or premiere as soon as their ends.
YouTube Live Redirect Eligibility Criteria
The creators who can access live redirect feature should fulfil below mentioned criteria:
- The Creator must have more than 1000 subscribers on their YouTube channel.
- The Creator should not have any active community guideline of their YouTube Channel.
The Channels of any size will able to receive live redirect from eligible channels.
Note: As a creator if you want to send your viewers to other creator live stream or premiere , that creator should give permission to you either by default because he / she already subscribed your channel by their channel or they approved your channel for live redirect from YouTube Studio Settings.
How To Redirect Your Live Stream Viewers On YouTube?
Steps to Redirect Your Live Stream Viewers on YouTube:
Step 1: Go to YouTube Studio and create Live Stream by clicking create button on top right corner or if you already created live stream then click on content which is available in left side.
Step 2: Go to Live Tab which is available right side of Videos and left side of Posts.
Step 3: Click on Edit of live video from which you want to live redirect.
Step 4: Click on Customisation which is available in left side.
Step 5: After clicking on Customisation, scroll down and click on ADD button under Live Redirect.
Step 6: Now, choose a premiere or live stream of your choice.
Step 7: When your Live Stream ends, you will get confirmation that your audience is live redirect.
How To Redirect Your Premiere Stream Viewers On YouTube?
Steps to Redirect Your Premiere Stream Viewers on YouTube:
Step 1: Go to YouTube studio.
Step 2: On the left side, Click on Content.
Step 3: Select the premiere video, click on premiere under visibility.
Step 4: After that Tap on “Setup Premiere“.
Step 5: After clicking on “Setup Premiere“, click on “ADD” under Redirect.
Step 6: Now, you can choose either your stream / premiere or other creators stream / premiere.
Step 7: When your premiere ended, your audience will be redirected.
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Who Can Redirect To You On YouTube?
Creators who having more than 1000 subscribers and no active community guideline can live redirect their viewers to your live streams or premiere.
Also if other creators want to live redirect their audience to you then you should give permission to that creator / channel either by default because you already subscribed their channel or you have approved their channel for live redirect from YouTube Studio Settings.
How To Change Who Can Redirect To You On YouTube?
By default the channels you subscribed can live redirect their audience to your channel unless your subscription set to private.
Steps to Change Who Can Redirect To You on YouTube:
Step 1: Go to YouTube studio.
Step 2: Click on Settings which is available in left bottom.
Step 3: Tap on the community which is available after permission.
Step 4: Under Automated filters, scroll down and comes to Live Redirect.
Step 5: Under Live Redirect, Uncheck the “All Redirect From channels I Subscribed To”. You can only Uncheck the “All Redirect From channels I Subscribed To” if you subscription are public. If your subscription are private then you will not able to uncheck.
Step 6: After Uncheck, Add the users for Live Redirect. and click on save.
After that added channels can send their audience to your in progress / upcoming live streams or premiere.
Are There Any YouTube Analytics Reports For Live Redirect?
Yes, YouTube analytics reports is available for live redirects. Now, Live Redirect is a traffic source in YouTube analytics for receiving channels.
That’s means if other channels redirecting their audience to your channel then you will able to see number of views you got from that creator.
But creators who sending their audience to your channels will not able to see how much views you got from them.
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Conclusion
Live Redirect is great feature by YouTube to engage your fan base and provide the excitement for upcoming premiere.
Using Live Redirect feature, Creators can boost each other views by automatically ending their audience to other creator live streams or premiere.
If you not able to see other creator channels that time you will get message “You Don’t Have Redirect Privileges“.
In this case ask creators add you to their list by going to settings >> community >> Live Redirect. Once a creator gives you permission you can send your audience to their ongoing / upcoming streams or premiere.
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