Streaming the prerecorded video

[PeterBocan]

What was the point of streaming today's prerecorded video? 

I can get behind livestreaming unboxings, but livestreaming videos? Why?

[Slottr]

Interacting with the community, or maybe just for the fun of it.

 

I'm sure just recording videos gets a little fatiguing over time 

[nicklmg]

It's a new YouTube feature called "Premieres". The idea is that we can set up a chatroom before the video goes live, interact with the audience, then all watch the video together.

 

We accidentally pushed it live immediately rather than delaying 30 mins, so we didn't get the chance to have that "set up chat." We're still working out the kinks in the process

 

Essentially it's just a way to diversify how we interact with the community. Always open to feedback on how we can do that better!

[PeterBocan]

8 minutes ago, nicklmg said:

It's a new YouTube feature called "Premieres". The idea is that we can set up a chatroom before the video goes live, interact with the audience, then all watch the video together.

 

We accidentally pushed it live immediately rather than delaying 30 mins, so we didn't get the chance to have that "set up chat." We're still working out the kinks in the process

 

Essentially it's just a way to diversify how we interact with the community. Always open to feedback on how we can do that better!

eh, well, first of, Youtube notification system could do a better job, and notify people a good time in advance, if you want to launch a "premiere" with the peak audience, because at this time Youtube rolls out notifications at the exact time you hit "stream" on youtube's page so the peak of audience comes like 2-5 minutes after the stream started.

Secondly, I have no idea how you want to interact with 30+ k people at the same time. Superchats? Yeah, that works but only with livestreams, not really with "premiere", but I don't see too much of a benefit for superchats in this regard other than sharing jokes with other 30+ k  that are contextual to the current events in the video!

[nicklmg]

19 minutes ago, PeterBocan said:

eh, well, first of, Youtube notification system could do a better job, and notify people a good time in advance, if you want to launch a "premiere" with the peak audience, because at this time Youtube rolls out notifications at the exact time you hit "stream" on youtube's page so the peak of audience comes like 2-5 minutes after the stream started.

Correct - as I said, we accidentally pushed live immediately rather than delaying 30 minutes. What should happen is we send out a notification that says 'we're premiering this video in 30 minutes! Come hang out in chat until then!' and then another notification goes out ~1 minute before the premiere actually starts.

19 minutes ago, PeterBocan said:

Secondly, I have no idea how you want to interact with 30+ k people at the same time. Superchats? Yeah, that works but only with livestreams, not really with "premiere", but I don't see too much of a benefit for superchats in this regard other than sharing jokes with other 30+ k  that are contextual to the current events in the video!

So your suggestion is just don't try? Idunno how to respond to this really. Can we interact with each individual person? No, but we can interact with some, and that's better than nothing.

 

EDIT: maybe I need to clarify - we're in the chat too. So that's how we try to interact with people.

[PeterBocan]

1 minute ago, nicklmg said:

So your suggestion is just don't try? Idunno how to respond to this really. Can we interact with each individual person? No, but we can interact with some, and that's better than nothing.

Nope, give it a try. Just pondering on the side of youtube rolling out a half-baked feature, I would say. It's the same thing with the "Community" tab on the Youtube profile's page. (No one really know about that, right?)

[Canada EH]

Gotta do whatever gotta do to get more viewers, more viewers is more money in Linus' pockets to go on longer making more videos. Working the kinks out, sounds kinky

[Tog Driver]

These premiers sound like an interesting concept.

[wONKEyeYEs]

8 hours ago, nicklmg said:

We accidentally pushed it live immediately rather than delaying 30 mins

LTT, home of the temporally challenged.

[LogicalDrm]

19 hours ago, nicklmg said:

We accidentally pushed it live immediately rather than delaying 30 mins, so we didn't get the chance to have that "set up chat." We're still working out the kinks in the process

You should try that feature with WAN Show. Maybe starting too early with normal being late evens itself out