Not to brag or anything, but I was using Zoom way before 2020. What can I say, I’m a trendsetter. All the way back in 2019, I was already using it for work meetings and … well, actually, just work meetings. 🧐 Then the pandemic started, and I began using it for family movie nights (“On the count of 3, everyone hit play!”), virtual hangouts, and book groups.
The pandemic has transformed Zoom from a workplace conferencing software into an every-place conferencing software. Unsurprisingly, that means lots of people are looking for ways to expand Zoom’s capabilities further, including by Zoom livestreaming, i.e. streaming their Zoom meetings to other platforms to reach a wider audience. And if that’s you, you’re in luck! This blog post will cover why you may want to stream your Zoom meeting to Facebook Live or YouTube Live, how to set up Zoom livestreaming on these platforms, and when you may want to consider livestreaming alternatives to Zoom.
There are tons of reasons to livestream from Zoom to Facebook Live, YouTube Live, or another streaming platform, but among the most popular are these:
Even the most expensive Zoom plan allows for only 500 participants (though you can add more for a price). If you have a large audience you’d like to invite or reach, you’ll need to stream your Zoom meeting to another platform without audience restrictions.Luckily, livestreaming from Zoom to Facebook or from Zoom to YouTube is simple and straightforward, and I’m breaking it down here with step-by-step guides.
Whichever platform you stream to, you must start by enabling livestreaming on your Zoom account — a feature that’s only available on paid Zoom accounts. Log in to your Zoom account, click My Account and then click Settings. Click In Meeting (Advanced) and then toggle on Allow live streaming meetings. Check every box beneath this option and click Save.
Then allow Zoom access to your Google account.If you want to schedule a Zoom meeting ahead of time and also schedule it to livestream on Facebook or YouTube (thereby creating a shareable public URL before your stream) or if you want to stream a Zoom meeting to any other streaming platform, you will need to use the Zoom’s “custom livestreaming service” option instead.
This lets you connect Zoom to nearly any streaming platform using RTMP credentials. Here’s how to do that:
If you’re using Facebook, visit Creator Studio, click Create Post and then Go Live. Choose the Facebook page on which you want to stream your Zoom meeting. By default, the Live Producer will select Go Live Now. Select Schedule a Live Video instead. Add a title, description, and image, and set the date and time when you plan to stream your meeting. Copy your stream key from the Stream Key Setup section. You’ll also need your server URL, which is rtmps://live-api-s.facebook.com:443/rtmp/
If you’re using YouTube, log in to your account, click the video camera icon in the top right, and then click Go live. Click Schedule Stream. Add a title, description, and image; choose your privacy settings and category; and set the date and time when you plan to stream your meeting.
Click Create Stream. Copy your stream key and URL from the Stream Settings section.
You can also schedule streams on nearly every other streaming platform. Simply copy that platform’s RTMP credentials (stream key and URL) for use in Zoom.
Because you’ve already filled in your stream credentials in the last step, your streaming platform will be automatically linked. When you’re taking these extra steps to connect Zoom’s video conferencing software to Facebook or YouTube, it’s worth stopping to ask yourself whether you’re using the right software in the first place.
If the goal is to livestream to Facebook, YouTube, or elsewhere, you may be better off with simple livestreaming software designed to do just that. Here are a few times when you should consider using dedicated livestreaming software like Switcher Studio instead:
When you stream a Zoom meeting to another platform, there’s always a Zoom logo at the bottom. Switcher lets you design your livestream with your own branding. Add logos, text, titles, overlays, prerecorded videos, graphics, and more.Even Zoom’s strongest features — like its video conferencing and screensharing features — are also available in livestreaming software Switcher Studio, and Switcher has direct integrations with Facebook, YouTube, and many other streaming platforms, including LinkedIn, Twitch, and Microsoft Stream. Zoom may be the right fit for you if all you want to stream is a simple, Zoom-branded meeting. But if you’d like to up your streaming capabilities and stream quality, it’s time to start your free 2-week trial of Switcher Studio and give it a spin.
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Enable the Live on Facebook Workplace option so that account members can have a live streaming meeting on Facebook’s Workplace.
You can also stream live webinars in Workplace or set up Workplace bots so that you can easily start or join meetings from Workplace. Click here for details
This page explains the following items.
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Enable Live Streaming Delivery Meetings on Facebook Workplace Set at the account level
Follow these steps to enable all members of your organization to join a live delivery service meeting on Facebook Workplace:
Set at the group level
Follow these steps to allow all members of a particular group to join a live delivery service meeting on Facebook Workplace:
Set at user level
Follow the steps below to enable Facebook Workplace to join a meeting with a live delivery service.
Live delivery service meeting
Follow the steps below to enable Facebook Workplace to join a meeting with a live delivery service.
Click Start Live Delivery .
A preview of the video is displayed, followed by a series of messages indicating progress.
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There are two tabs at the bottom of your Zoom meeting settings. Click the tab for “Poll” and click the button for “Live Streaming.” Afterwards, click the button for “Configure live streaming settings.” This will open a pop-up box where you can adjust the live stream settings.
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Zoom’s web portal can be accessed by signing into your Zoom account.
To change the settings, click the Settings button.
You will find the Meeting tab on the left side of the screen.
The “Allow livestreaming of meetings” option can be found under the “In Meeting (Advanced)” menu option.
There is a checkbox for Facebook that needs to be selected.
The changes will be saved as soon as you click Save.
Zoom is available on the Facebook Portal, however, before you can use it, you must create an account with Zoom at www.
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Connect to your Facebook account in order to begin your meeting
If you do not already have a Facebook account, you will need to log in to your account. Click on More > Live on Facebook in the bottom bar on Zoom. In the next step, you will be asked to decide whether you want to go live on a page, a group or both.
In your Facebook group, you can create a new event.
Choose the Online type from the drop-down menu.
Click on the General tab.
Enter the name of the event in the field provided.
The event can be set for a particular date and time.
The next step is to click the next button.
Please select the External Link option.
In the Event Link field, you must paste the URL of your Zoom Meeting.
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Live broadcasts are a great way to promote and promote any Internet channel. They get the maximum meaning when other people connect to them.
One of the services designed to work with broadcasts is Zoom. With it, you can broadcast video to one of the social networks (YouTube, Facebook, etc.). In order for people to come to the broadcast on Zoom, you have to deal with invitations. After a simple registration, Zoom itself automatically offers to invite friends. At the same time, any social network, when starting a live broadcast, independently informs your friends about the start of a live broadcast. nine0003
Zoom is a great service that integrates with a lot of interesting and useful resources, including Restream. With a paid Zoom account, users can connect to the Restream service to broadcast videos not to one, but to several social channels at once (Odnoklassniki, YouTube, Facebook, VKontakte, etc.).
What do I need to do to set up auto-broadcasting of my Zoom social media broadcast?
1. Log in to your Zoom account. To activate the broadcasting function, the account must be paid. Select "Settings / At the conference (advanced)" and check the boxes to which social network you want to broadcast the broadcast.
If this will be carried out through Restream, then be sure to check the box "Individual streaming service". You don’t have to do anything else in your Zoom account. nine0003
2. Register on the Restream service. It is absolutely free and does not take much time. The service has excellent technical support in both English and Russian. Questions are answered quickly enough, and all correspondence comes to the user's mail.
3. Account on Restream can be paid and free. Free users can connect via Zoom only on one social network (one account) and stream only on their personal page, but not in groups. On the paid version, it is possible to connect several accounts of the same social network. Here, some restrictions are removed, especially for Facebook. nine0003
4. Connecting the channel is quite simple. To do this, click on the "Add Channel" button. After clicking, it immediately redirects to a page where you can select a channel for broadcasting. Mostly gaming channels here, but there are also major social networks.
5. Channel connection is carried out in one click. A connection page will appear + corresponding instructions. Here you need to press just one button. To activate the channel connection process, you need to be an authorized user in the Restream service, having agreed with all the requirements. If there are any problems with the connection, it is better to write to technical support. nine0003
6. Go to the "Conference name" section and give it a name in the line. It will appear on all connected channels.
7. You can also notify subscribers about the upcoming broadcast.
1. Once Restream is set up and the broadcast is running, at the bottom of the broadcast control panel, click on the three dots and select "Broadcast to a custom streaming service" to integrate the service with Zoom. nine0003
2. In the Zoom service, fill in the fields that will be shown empty (“Stream URL” and “Stream Key”).
3. Go to the Restream control panel. On the right side in the “Settings” section, you need to copy the first link and paste it on the Zoom resource into the “Stream URL” line. Now copy the stream key, which is located on Restream under the link, and paste it in the "Stream key" line on Zoom.
4. The last line on Zoom (URL of the streaming page) for the broadcast is quite simple to fill in: you can paste the copied address of your YouTube or Facebook page. nine0003
5. After filling in all the fields, click on the “Go Live” button. Zoom will start preparing for the broadcast. As soon as the preparation is completed, the user will be transferred to the account specified in the line.
Going to the Restream panel, you can see that the broadcast from Zoom has started.
The broadcast appeared in all marked social networks (in our case, YouTube).
Thanks to such an excellent service as Restream and a paid Zoom account, now everyone can live broadcast on multiple social networks without any problems! nine0003
If there is no way to connect a paid Zoom account, then you can broadcast through various social networks using Restream using the free OBS Studio program, we will talk about its settings in the following articles.
Thus, with the help of useful additional services, the use of a Zoom account can become much more efficient. And services like Restream will increase the popularity of your social networks and increase the number of your audience without any extra actions on your part. nine0003
If you have any questions, then write them in the comments to the article. We will analyze the most interesting and complex questions of yours in separate articles.
How functional does a video conferencing app really need to be? Every time we think Zoom has gone above and beyond in terms of what it has to offer/provide, they introduce a new feature that honestly... makes a lot of sense even in terms of functionality. Grab the latest feature in their arsenal, a live streaming feature that can be used in tandem with Facebook Live, YouTube, and a few other apps. Indeed, the next time you want to make a company-wide announcement or host a virtual event, you'll thank Zoom for this feature.
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While Zoom is testing the limits that a video conferencing app can push, let's see how to stream your Zoom meeting live to Facebook Live and YouTube on mobile and PC.
Zoom has explicitly stated that the user must meet the following prerequisites for live streaming.
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You can only do this on PC as this feature is not supported on mobile devices. nine0104
Open the Zoom Web Portal from any browser on your PC and sign in to your Zoom account.
After logging in, scroll to the last page. Here click on Account under Support.
Once in the Account section, click on the Settings first, and when Settings opens, click on the Meeting (Advanced) option.
in Advanced Settings, scroll until you reach Allow live broadcast of meetings option. Here you need to enable the Facebook and Facebook for Business options by clicking the circle in front of them. If you don't use Facebook for business, don't use it. Once you have chosen a platform, click Save.
Then launch the Zoom application on your PC. In the app, click the "More" button, which is located in the lower right corner of the screen. In the panel that opens, select either Live on Facebook or Live in the workplace via Facebook
Zoom will redirect you to Facebook directly.
On Facebook, you must first select where you want to live stream from the drop-down menu (timeline, group, event, friend's timeline) and then select Next .
Please wait a few seconds/minutes for Zoom to prepare for the live broadcast.
Meanwhile, on Facebook, you will also be able to see a small panel on the right where you can share a copy if you wish. When you're done press Go Live . After that, your Zoom video will be launched.
You will notice that Live is in the top right corner of the Zoom app.
That's how you go live on Facebook!
This can only be done on PC as this feature is not supported on mobile devices.
As with Facebook, go to Advanced Settings and scroll to Allow live broadcast of meetings option. Here, turn on YouTube by clicking on the circle in front of it.
