How to Set Up YouTube Live Redirects on Your Channel

Enabling Live Redirects for Your Channel

For Creators looking to grow their audience and foster collaboration, the ability to receive Live Redirects is a vital feature. A live redirect allows another streamer to send their current audience directly to your active livestream, ensuring a seamless transition for viewers and helping you kick off your broadcast with an immediate surge of engagement.

However, this functionality is not enabled by default for everyone. To ensure you can actually receive these redirects during your streams, you must first configure your channel’s permissions within the YouTube Studio settings.

How to Configure Your Redirect Settings

Setting up your preferences takes only a few moments but is essential for anyone who participates in “raids” or collaborative streaming events. Follow these steps to manage who can send viewers to your channel:

1. Access YouTube Studio: Log into your account and open the YouTube Studio dashboard.
2. Navigate to Settings: Locate the settings gear icon (usually found in the bottom left of the sidebar) to open your channel’s global configurations.
3. Open the Community Section: Within the settings menu, click on the “Community” tab. This section is where you manage how other users and Creators interact with your content and community.
4. Locate Redirect Permissions: Scroll down through the Community settings until you find the options for live redirects.

Choosing Your Permission Level

Once you have reached the redirect settings, YouTube provides two primary ways to handle incoming traffic from other streams. Depending on your goals for channel security and growth, you can choose one of the following:

Allow Specific Channels

If you prefer to maintain strict control over who sends viewers to your stream, you can enter specific channels. This is ideal for Creators who have a close-knit group of collaborators or partners and want to ensure that only trusted sources can trigger a redirect to their live broadcast.

Allow All Creators

For those who want to maximize their discoverability and welcome new audiences from any source, there is an option to allow all Creators to redirect to you. This removes the need for manual whitelisting and makes your channel open to spontaneous redirects from the wider YouTube community.

By taking a moment to configure these settings, you ensure that you won’t miss out on potential viewers when other streamers attempt to send their audience your way via Live Redirects.

Original transcript

Transcript

To be able to receive Live Redirects in your livestreams, you first need to set up who can send you Live Redirects. To do this, go to the “Community” section in YouTube Studio settings and scroll down. Here, you can either enter specific channels or allow all Creators to redirect to you.

Confused about setting up Live Redirects on YouTube? Our Creator Services offers expert support and guidance to help you configure these settings seamlessly.