This help article explains how to start or schedule a live broadcast on your broadcast platform of choice. We provide detailed instructions and a walkthrough with YouTube including screenshots, and we recommend that you read through this tutorial flow, even if you're planning to use another broadcast platform, simply because the concepts are very similar from one platform to another. We provide links to help articles that explain how to set up your live broadcast on Facebook, and we also explain how you can stream to other platforms as well.
Instructions for Other Broadcast Platforms
Instructions for YouTube
To set up a live broadcast on YouTube, go to your YouTube account page. Click the Create button near the top right of the page, which you'd normally use to upload a new video to YouTube (pictured below with arrow).
Click the "Go live" option in the menu that you see. The live broadcast home page is displayed. Click the "Schedule Stream" button at the top right of the screen (pictured below).
You'll see a dialog displayed in the center of the screen. If you've done live broadcasts before, you can click the "Reuse settings" button to reuse your settings from a prior broadcast, or you can click "Create new" to start fresh on your live event settings.
To set up your stream, you'll go through three steps with the Next button - Details, Customization, and Visibility (pictured below).
We recommend the following:
- Details - In this step, you're required to enter a title for your live broadcast event. You can also enter a description. For the question "How do you want to go live?", select the "Streaming software" option. For the "Category" option, select "Music". For "Thumbnail", you can upload a photo/image that your audience will see for the event before you start streaming. For the question "Is this made for kids?", we recommend you answer "No", unless your performance is really intended just for kids. This isn't a question of whether it's kid-friendly. It's really a question of whether it's specifically kid-targeted. Click Next button to move ahead.
- Customization - We recommend checking all three "Live Chat" boxes to take full advantage of chat features. For "Participant modes", select Anyone so that everyone in the audience can chat with you and each other. For "Reactions", check the "Live reactions" button, as these can be fun during the broadcast. Then click Next to move ahead.
- Visibility - You'll want to select "Public" here in most cases, so that anyone can watch and listen to your live broadcast. When testing though, you may want to use "Private" or "Unlisted" aklsjf;lkdajs. For the "Schedule" option, the date and time are automatically set to start a new broadcast right now, but you may also update the date/time to schedule something to start later (in case you want to get a link to the event and promote it ahead of time). Then click Done to finish up.
If you've scheduled your broadcast for later, click the "Share" icon near the top right of the screen (pictured below with arrow), and this will give you options to copy a URL/link you can use to share and promote the event with the information on where to go for your audience.
When it's time to broadcast your event, click the Copy button next to "Stream key" (pictured above with arrow), and copy this stream key into the Broadcast dialog on JamKazam before clicking the Start Broadcast button in JamKazam. This stream key is required to stream audio and video from JamKazam/OBS to YouTube.
Instructions for Facebook
To set up a live broadcast on Facebook, we recommend you read this Facebook help article and follow its instructions. Note that you do not need to download streaming software (the first thing this help article tells you to do - because JamKazam and OBS is the streaming software).
Instructions for Other Broadcast Platforms
To stream through Twitch, Twitter (X), or Restream.io, you can set up your live broadcast event on one of these platforms (we advise you search for instructions on the Web), and then simply select the Streaming Platform you want to use in JamKazam's Broadcast dialog (pictured below). In the example below, we selected Twitch. All you would need to do from here is to copy the Stream Key from your Twitch live event and paste it into the Stream Key field in the dialog below, then click the Start Broadcast button below.
If you want to stream through a broadcast platform other than those listed in the Streaming Platform list box in the dialog above, you likely can do it. To do this, you'll need to do a little searching and sleuthing on the Web to find the Server URL to use. This is the address/location to which JamKazam/OBS will send your JamKazam session stream, and it will start with rtmp://
When you find this address, paste it into the Server URL field. Then copy the Stream Key from the broadcast platform for the event, and paste that into the Stream Key field. Finally, click the Apply button. This will apply these settings to the broadcast. When you are ready to start the broadcast, click the Start Broadcast button, and this will likely send the stream properly to the broadcast platform you want to use.