Use Live Chat during your live stream or Premiere

Live Chat lets you have real-time interactions with your viewers during live streams and Premieres. To view your Live Chat, click the down arrow at the top of the chat menu and select Top Chat or All Chat.

Learn more about Live Chat or moderate your Live Chat.

Live Q&A

Pin messages

You can pin your own message or a viewer’s message in Live Chat. Pinned messages show below Super Chat. To pin a message:

1. Sign in to the YouTube app on mobile.
2. Tap CREATE 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Live 👁 Image
   .
3. Start your live stream.
4. Find a message from Live Chat, even your own, and tap More 👁 Image
   .
5. Tap or tap Pin 👁 Image
   .

Create a live poll

1. Sign in to the YouTube app on mobile.
2. Tap CREATE 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Live 👁 Image
   .
3. Start your live stream.
4. From the bottom of the chat window, tap Add 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Create a poll.
5. Create your poll.

6. To end a poll and see the results in the chat from the banner at the top of the chat, tap End poll.

7. Select Ask your community.

Start a Live Q&A

HOW TO: Add a Q&A Sticker to your Live Stream 🤳

Live Q&A lets you find and select questions within your Live Chat to answer for your viewers. To start a Live Q&A:

1. Sign in to the YouTube app on mobile.
2. Tap CREATE 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Live 👁 Image
   .
3. Start your live stream.
4. From the bottom of the chat window, tap Add 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Start a Q&A.
5. Add a prompt and tap Start Q&A.

Answer questions from the chat

Once you start a Live Q&A, the “Questions List” will appear in the chat window. To answer a question:

1. Select a question from the Questions List.
2. Tap Menu 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Select Question. The question will be pinned to the top of the chat window and visible to your viewers.
3. Tap Close to remove a question banner from the chat window.

End a Live Q&A

1. To end your Live Q&A, tap End Q&A at the top of the chat. All unanswered questions in the list will be deleted and Live Q&A sessions will be available in Chat Replay.

   • To delete a question that you’ve submitted that has not been pinned to chats, go to My Activity.

   • To delete questions that are pinned to the chat window, tap Menu 👁 Image
     👁 and then
     Delete.

Create a Q&A sticker

You can ask your viewers questions by adding a Q&A sticker to your live steam. Once a question is answered by viewers, the comment will become publicly visible to other viewers.

1. Sign in to the YouTube app on mobile.
2. Tap CREATE 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Live 👁 Image
   .
3. Start your live stream.
4. From the right, tap Stickers 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Q&A.
5. Type the question that you’d like to ask your viewers.
   • Note: You can customize the sticker and preview it before starting.
6. Once ready, tap Start Q&A.

After you start your stream, you may also see suggested Q&A stickers pop up in a banner at the bottom of your screen.

To use a suggested Q&A:

1. Tap Try it on the banner.
2. You can preview the sticker and make edits.
3. Once ready, tap Start Q&A.

Create a countdown sticker

HOW TO: Add a Countdown to your Livestream

You can add a countdown sticker to your vertical live stream to help build excitement with your audience for a specific moment. When the timer ends, the creator gets notified and the sticker will play an animation before automatically disappearing.

1. Sign in to the YouTube app on mobile.
2. Tap CREATE 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Live 👁 Image
   .
3. Start your live stream.
4. From the right, tap Stickers 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Countdown.
5. Customize the sticker name, color, and duration.
   • Note: You can set a countdown for up to 60 minutes. You can’t change the duration after the countdown starts.
6. You can preview the sticker and make edits.
7. Once ready, tap Start a countdown.
   • To delete the countdown before time is up, drag the sticker down to the Trash icon.

Turn reactions on or off

You can turn reactions on or off during a live stream. You can change this setting at any point during your stream.

1. Sign in to the YouTube app on mobile.
2. Tap CREATE 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Live 👁 Image
   .
3. Tap Edit 👁 Image
   👁 and then
   Advanced settings 👁 Image
   .
4. Toggle Allow reactions on or off.

Embed a Live Chat

During a live stream, you can embed Live Chat on your own site by using an iframe. Embedding Live Chat isn't available on mobile web.

1. Get the video ID for the live stream from the watch page URL.
2. Get the domain URL for the site you want to embed chat on.
3. Combine the embedded URL in the following way: https://www.youtube.com/live_chat?v=12345&embed_domain=www.example.com.

This URL is for your iframe. The embed_domain must match the URL of the page you’re embedding the chat on. If they are different, the embedded chat will not open.