Private & unlisted YouTube streams

When you connect a YouTube channel to ApexStream, your broadcasts can be sent as public, unlisted, or private YouTube streams. Use unlisted or private when you want to test your setup or limit who can watch.

How YouTube privacy works in ApexStream

1. Go to Dashboard → Integrations and connect your YouTube channel if you haven't already.
2. When you go live from Web Studio or schedule a broadcast, ApexStream creates a YouTube live event behind the scenes.
3. The stream is sent with the privacy setting stored on the destination. For most users this defaults to public.

Setting privacy before a stream

• For Web Studio broadcasts, the privacy status is set when the YouTube broadcast is created at go-live time.
• For scheduled VOD-to-live broadcasts, the scheduled event is created on YouTube in advance with the privacy setting from your destination.

If you need a specific privacy status, make sure your YouTube destination is configured correctly before starting the broadcast. You can also change the privacy of the live event directly in YouTube Studio once the broadcast has started.

Good to know: Unlisted streams don't appear in YouTube search or on your channel page, but anyone with the link can watch. Private streams can only be seen by you and any YouTube users you explicitly invite in YouTube Studio.