Best Practices for Setting up and Broadcasting Live Events in YouTube or Facebook from Zoom

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Live Streaming events in Zoom are great for reaching audiences larger than Zoom's meeting limit of 1000 participants. We can live stream Zoom meetings on YouTube, Facebook, or a Custom Streaming Service. To learn more, see Zoom's instructions for Live on YouTube and Live on Facebook.

This document will provide a checklist for setting up and broadcasting your live event. 

Considerations

Setting up your Zoom account


Should you use Facebook or YouTube?

Should you allow Comments and Chat during the live event?

  • To limit disruptive comments during the event, consider having a moderator tasked to monitor the comments and chat sections and quickly delete comments. Participants posting web addresses should be discouraged and they should be deleted.
  1. Your moderators will need to log into YouTube Studio, to get their channel URL. It will look like this: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/[channel id]. 

  2. Once all of your moderators provided you their channel URLs, log into Youtube Studio > click Settings > Community 

    How to add moderators into your Youtube channel

  3. Add their URLs to the Moderators section.
    Adding moderators channel URL into the filter system

  • Hold potentially inappropriate live chat messages for review in Youtube Studio > Settings > Community > Defaults tab check off Hold potentially inappropriate chat messages for review.
    Hold potentially inappropriate live chat messages for review
  • In Facebook, you may add admins, moderators and editors to help moderate comments. Go to Settings > Page Roles to add people to work on your page.
  • On Facebook, while we can't disable comments we can limit comments to allow only Followers in the Live Producer. There are other restrictions for limited comments. Log in to the Live Producer to see the available options
  • Currently, we are only able to turn off comments and live chat on YouTube. Live Chat is a synchronous chat feed that appears during the live event. Comments are below the video and are available during and after the event.

Turning on Live Streaming in Zoom

Live streaming is not enabled by default and you'll need to turn it on in your Zoom settings on the web. To allow live streaming, go to Settings on the Zoom web and check off the applications you plan on using.
Turning on live streaming in Zoom settings

Download the Zoom Client and sign in

You'll need the Zoom Client, signed in via SSO (NetID and NetID Password), and running in the background during the live event.

Create the Meeting and start the live event

  • You may create and schedule the meeting like any other Zoom meeting. You may add Alternative Hosts before the meeting or upgrade them to Co-Host during the meeting.
  • Prior to broadcasting your live event, ensure that speakers and moderators have Co-Host roles.
  • To start the broadcast, click on More > Live on Facebook or Live on YouTube.
     Start Broadcast on Zoom
  • You will be prompted to log in to Facebook or YouTube.
    • For Facebook, you will need to specify broadcasting the live event from your department or school's official Facebook page.
This Content Last Updated:
05/06/2025

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This Content Last Updated:
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