{"id":338582,"date":"2017-04-18T02:36:20","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T18:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/?p=1477482"},"modified":"2017-04-18T02:36:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T18:36:20","slug":"you-can-now-live-stream-to-youtube-from-your-phone-if-you-have-at-least-1000-subscribers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/you-can-now-live-stream-to-youtube-from-your-phone-if-you-have-at-least-1000-subscribers\/","title":{"rendered":"You can now live stream to YouTube from your phone if you have at least 1,000 subscribers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1477499\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/yt-limit.png?w=678&#038;h=488\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/yt-limit.png 678w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/yt-limit.png?w=150&#038;h=108 150w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/yt-limit.png?w=300&#038;h=216 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/02\/07\/youtube-opens-mobile-live-streams-to-those-with-10k-fans-paid-super-chat-exits-beta\/\">Back in February<\/a>, YouTube gave people the ability to live stream directly to their channel from their phones\u2026 with one catch: it was only open to folks with 10,000 subscribers or more.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve been dying to hop on the live streaming train but haven\u2019t hit that 10k mark yet, good news: they\u2019ve dropped the requirement to 1,000 subscribers as opposed to 10,000. It\u2019s still not open to everyone, but that\u2019s a considerably smaller hurdle.<\/p>\n<p>The change quietly happened sometime in the past few days, but got swept up amongst the April Fools\u2019 noise that comes with changing anything near the beginning of this month. A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/2853700\">support page<\/a> confirms the change, and a rep from YouTube confirmed that it should be open to <em>everyone<\/em> with 1,000 subscribers or more \u2014 not a random pool.<\/p>\n<p>So why not just open it to everyone, regardless of subscriber count? A few possible reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boring content is the bane of live streams, and a lot of people just aren\u2019t consistently enthralling enough to watch live\/sans editing. Having some relatively high number of subscribers suggests that the creator at least has <em>some<\/em> idea what people want to see.<\/li>\n<li>Stress testing. Live streams introduce new technical challenges, and limiting the number of people who can participate lets YouTube work out the kinks without disappointing everyone.<\/li>\n<li>People are presumably less likely to stream illegal content when they\u2019ve got an established channel to lose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"678\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/yt-limit.png?w=678\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/yt-limit.png 678w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/yt-limit.png?w=150 150w, https:\/\/tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/yt-limit.png?w=300 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/>&nbsp;Back in February, YouTube gave people the ability to live stream directly to their channel from their phones&#8230; with one catch: it was only open to folks with 10,000 subscribers or more. If you&#8217;ve been dying to hop on the live streaming train but haven&#8217;t hit that 10k mark yet, good news: they&#8217;ve dropped the requirement to 1,000 subscribers as opposed to 10,000.&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/04\/17\/you-can-now-live-stream-to-youtube-from-your-phone-if-you-have-at-least-1000-subscribers\/?ncid=rss\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=6hrvdd0_v_8:lFvmRBwtxnQ:2mJPEYqXBVI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=2mJPEYqXBVI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=6hrvdd0_v_8:lFvmRBwtxnQ:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=6hrvdd0_v_8:lFvmRBwtxnQ:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=6hrvdd0_v_8:lFvmRBwtxnQ:-BTjWOF_DHI\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?i=6hrvdd0_v_8:lFvmRBwtxnQ:-BTjWOF_DHI\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=6hrvdd0_v_8:lFvmRBwtxnQ:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?i=6hrvdd0_v_8:lFvmRBwtxnQ:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?a=6hrvdd0_v_8:lFvmRBwtxnQ:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/Techcrunch?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~4\/6hrvdd0_v_8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[59,66,26],"class_list":["post-338582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-media","tag-techcrunch","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}