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, open the YouTube channel's Edit screen and set Privacy to Public, Unlisted, or Private before you go live. ApexStream applies that setting when it creates the YouTube broadcast.
• For scheduled VOD-to-live broadcasts, the scheduled event is created on YouTube in advance with the privacy setting from your destination.

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.