YouTube Live gets New features

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

 The service was created by three former PayPal employees — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen,

 and Jawed Karim in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for 

US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.

YouTube Live

YouTube Live was a 2008 event streamed live on the Internet from San Francisco and Tokyo. It was launched November 22–23, 2008. It was hosted by a variety of YouTube celebrities, including The Black Eyed Peas rapper will.i.am, Tom Dickson of Will It Blend, Michael Buckley, The Happy Tree Friends, Fred, Smosh, Esmée Denters and singer Katy Perry, among others.On April 8, 2011, The channel was closed, effectively removing all videos. It was replaced by the YouTube live section page.

YouTube allowed users to go live and interact with their followers. YouTube has now 

introduced more options to its live streaming service and it can be termed nothing less than

 an overhaul. YouTube Live now has an "ultra low-latency" feature that makes it easier for the 

users to interact with their audiences in real-time. Apart from this, the live streaming service 

from YouTube has also received new chat moderation tools. Finally, iOS users will now be 

able to live stream through more apps from their devices, with the YouTube app now 

supporting Apple's Replay Kit framework.

Talking about the newly introduced ultra low-latency feature first, the company says in its 

Creators Blog that it makes it possible to stream videos with just a couple seconds of latency. 

This means that the users will be able to answer fan questions and get input from viewers

 faster than before. The company says that the new feature is easy to set up and doesn't 

require any special software or encoders to work.

The new moderation tools added to YouTube Live allow users to pause the chat feed by 

simply pressing and holding the "alt/option" button on their keyboard. Users can then hover 

over messages to remove or approve the chat messages with a single click. Also, users can 

delegate a moderator for their live chat to flag or hide messages. Separately, users can

 choose to hold potentially inappropriate messages, which will be identified by the company's

 own system, to approve, hide, or report later. There is also an option to block certain words

 or phrases, if the user chooses to do so.

Coming to the app streaming bit, with Apple's Replay Kit, users will now be able to stream 

live from more apps as the company has brought the functionality to the main YouTube app. 

While users could already live stream from apps through YouTube Gaming earlier, as the

 feature has been added to the main YouTube app, any app that supports Replay Kit can 

now be streamed live by iOS users.

"You'll also be able to use your phone's microphone and front-facing camera to add your own 

video and audio commentary to the stream," the company said in its blog post.

FUN TIMES