YouTube gets a new Live Q&A feature

If you want to house AMAs (Ask Me Anythings) on YouTube, it's now easier to do that. The app lets its creators host dedicated question-and-answer sessions during live streams. This dedicated tool will make it easier to direct your live streams and help you respond easily to the questions you get.

When you start a Q&A, your prompt message will be pinned at the top of the stream's chat. Your viewers can submit questions and then when you find a question you want to discuss, you can pin that so it's easier for everyone to follow what you're answering. You can then pin the next question, and so on. When you're done, you can revert it to the standard chatroom.

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Samsung’s new app lets you live stream your mobile gameplay

If you want more sharing options for your mobile gaming live streams, there’s a new Samsung app you might like. Aptly called Samsung Game Live, the app will let you live stream through different services like Facebook, Twitch, and YouTube. The app lets share the links to these live streams via Twitter, Facebook, or SMS. It’ll even let you use your mic to chat with your friends as you stream. It can save up to 4GB or 200 minutes of gameplay (whichever comes first) but it can stream for longer at lower resolutions. You can save your sessions for later viewing or even sharing at a later date.

It’ll work on Samsung Galaxy devices that run Android 6.0 Marshmallow and above and some commenters on Android Police say they’ve gotten it to work on their Galaxy S7 and S7 edge devices. The app isn’t on the Play Store yet but Samsung users can get it through Galaxy Apps.

YouTube introduces mobile live streaming

Mobile live streaming is such a ubiquitous feature on major platforms that it comes as no surprise YouTube is adding it to its service. At the moment though, it is open to creators with over 10,000 subscribers. The feature is baked into YouTube’s mobile app and just like what you’d see on Facebook or Instagram, you just need to hit the capture button and then you go live. Mobile live streams get the same features as usual YouTube videos. These can be searched for, found through recommendations and playlists, and protected from unauthorized us. When it was debuted back at VidCon 2016 in beta, one of the first users who got to try it out was Canadian creator UnboxTherapy. Now, it’s open to more users and YouTube promises it’ll be available to more creators soon.

Launching alongside mobile live streaming is a new way for creators to earn revenue from the feature. Called Super Chat, it’s a monetization tool that’ll allow fans watching live streams to stand out from all the commenters and grab the creator’s attention by purchasing chat messages. These will be highlighted in bright colors and will be pinned to the top of the chat window for up to five hours. It also helps creators earn a bit of extra money from their supporters.

Instagram to get live video

Everyone has live video these days and Facebook-owned Instagram is getting in on the action. According to Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom, the company is working on bringing live video to users in the future. There is no specific timeline for it but it might be similar to Facebook Live. If you want to start streaming an event for someone, you just open the Instagram camera and start recording.

Screenshots of the feature have surfaced and it shows the feature will show if someone is live in the same spot you see Stories within the app.  If someone you follow is live, you’ll see a red ring around the profile photo and when you tap on that it’ll take you directly to the broadcast.

Source: Droid Life