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Learn more about the updated live stream experience.
Important:
- This article only applies to hosts and participants who join through a meeting link. For viewers who join through a live stream link, go to View a Live stream.
- Participants can only start, stop, and record a live stream on a computer.
- Only participants in your organization, not view-only guests, can start, stop, or record streams.
- Viewers who join through the Livestream link can now view and send chat messages.
What you can share through live stream with Meet
- Real-time employee and staff training
- Academic information with students
- Conference materials that can’t be shared in person
- Organization-wide presentations with multiple presenters
- Guests may be designated as view-only
Learn which Google Workspace editions can live stream
In-house and Cross Domain live streaming is available with these Google Workspace Editions:
- Enterprise Starter
- Enterprise Plus
- Enterprise Standard
- Education Plus: This is available to users with a "Staff" or "Student" license.
- Teaching and Learning Upgrade: This is available to users with a “Teaching and Learning Upgrade” license.
Compare Google Workspace editionsor Learn about your available Meet features.
If live streaming is enabled for your work or school account, you can let people in your organization watch your video meetings.With Cross Domain live streaming, admins can also allow up to 50 different Trusted Workspace sub-domains to join their live streams. The maximum number of live stream viewers depends on your Google Workspace edition.
Tip: If you’re a Google Workspace administrator who manages Google Meet for your organization, first allow live streaming or set up Cross Domain live streaming.
Who can view a live stream
Only guests in your organization can watch live streams. If your admin turns on Cross Domain live streaming, then guests in your organization and in Trusted Workspace domains can watch.
- On the computer, all meeting participants in your organization can stop and start the stream during the meeting, and record the event.
- Guests who watch through the live stream link can’t control streaming and recording. Learn more at View a Live stream.
Tip: Live stream organizers will see a viewer count at the top of their screen. The live stream counter will show every new viewer until the first 100 users. After 100 users, it will round to the nearest 5.
You can use these browsers to view live stream meetings:
- Chrome Browser
- Microsoft® Edge®
- Mozilla® Firefox®
- Opera®
- Apple® Safari®
Set up a live stream with Google Meet
- In a meeting, at the bottom right, click Activities
Live Streaming Stream internally.
Live Streaming Tip: The live stream is only accessible to guests within your organization. Reach out to your Workspace Admins to set up Cross Domain live streaming.
- In the menu, select the language for captions.
- Click Start Streaming.
- Share the live stream through a Copy streaming link.
Tip: If you share the meeting code or URL, the user joins as a participant.
Set up a live stream with Google Calendar
Google Meet: Livestream a meeting
Part 1: Create a live stream event
- Open Google Calendar.
- ClickCreateEventMore options.
- Add the event details, such as date, time, and description.
- Add the gueststhat can fully participate in the video meeting.
- All guests added to this event can be seen, heard, and present their screen.
- People from other organizations and trusted domains can be added. Only people in your organization can record and control streaming.
- Next to Join with GoogleMeet, click the Down arrowAdd live stream.
- Click Add live stream again to confirm.
- Click SaveSend.
Note: Streaming does not automatically start. During the meeting, at the bottom right, click, click Live StreamingStart streaming.
Create
Event
, click Live StreamingPart 2: Create an additional event for view-only guests
To invite specific people to the view-only live stream, create a view-only event. The event is added to their Calendar and includes the link for view-only guests.
People invited to this view-only event are not seen or heard in the meeting, and can’t present, record, or control streaming.
Tip: If invited, view-only guests can join live streams even if their accounts don't support live streaming or their organizations have live streaming turned off.
- Open Google Calendar.
- Click the live stream event you created Edit .
- At the top, click More actions Create view-only event.
- Add guests or rooms for view-only access, and other details such as a description.
- To allow guests to join from their own Google Meet hardware rooms, make sure guests have the permissions to modify events.
- Click Save Send.
Edit 
.Remove a live stream from a Google Calendar Event
- Open Google Calendar.
- Click the live stream event Edit.
- Next to Join with Google Meet, click the Down arrowRemove live stream.
- Click Save.
Tip: The meeting link changes when you add or remove live streaming. Be sure to share the updated link with your guests.
Start and stop a live stream
If allowed by anadministrator, any participant in the same organization as the meeting organizer can start or stop the live stream.Live streams automatically stop after 8 hours since live streams have an 8 hour time limit.
You can start or stop a live stream if:
- You’re the organizer
- You’re in the same organization as the organizer
- An administrator allows you in the live stream
- You join as a full participant
A view-only guest can only view and can’t control the live stream.
- Open Google Calendar and join the video meeting.
- Select MoreStart streaming.
- Confirm that you want to start streaming. When streaming is on, at the top left, “Live” is indicated. View-only guests can now watch the meeting using the stream URL.
- Select MoreStop streaming.
- Confirm that you want to stop streaming.
You can present live video from your camera in a Google Meet meeting to showcase objects and create interactive presentations.
Learn how to present content from a camera in Google Meet.
Record a live stream event
Full participants from the same organization as the meeting organizer can record the live stream so people can watch the event after the meeting ends. Live stream events are not automatically recorded, so you must manually start and stop recording. Learn how to Record a video meeting.
Guests who join view-only cannot control recording.
Add captions to your live stream
To use captions for your live stream event, meeting participants should first turn on live stream captions from the main meeting. Live stream captions are displayed in the same language as the one set in the meeting.
Captions are available in:
- English
- French
- German
- Portuguese
- Spanish
Use captions as a meeting participant
- Join a live stream meeting.
- From the menu, select the language for captions.
- Click Start Streaming.
Display chat messages to viewers
Important: This is only available to viewers who join the live stream on a computer.
By default, viewers can view and send chat messages. To adjust the settings:
- Set up a live stream in Google Meet or Calendar.
- Go to Host controls :
- During a live stream meeting: At the bottom right, click Host controls .
- In a Calendar invite: Within the Google Meet section, select Video call options Host Controls .
- During a live stream meeting: At the bottom right, click Host controls
- Turn on Host management.
- Under “Let Live Stream Viewers,” you can turn these options on or off:
- See chat messages
- Send chat messages
: Conduct a poll or Q&A in your live stream
Important: Hosts can disable Q&A for live stream participants on their computer.
If you create a Q&A or poll in a live stream, it's automatically available to both meeting and live stream participants.
- Learn how to conduct a poll in a Google Meet meeting
Check your live stream report
If you’re the meeting organizer, you get an email with a Google Sheets report after a live stream. Learn how to get your live stream report.
Related resources
- Troubleshoot issues with live streaming
- View a Live stream
- Use hardware to live stream video meetings
- Hold large remote events - Google Workspace Learning Center
- Tips for video meetings - Google Workspace Learning Center
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