Get more viewers by streaming Vertical to YouTube! (Setup Guide)

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In this video, we're diving deep into the world of vertical live streaming on KZbin Shorts. We'll explore the best practices, the do's and don'ts, and how you can leverage it to grow your channel. 📈🎥
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2:39 Download Aitum Vertical Plugin
2:55 Enable Live Streaming on KZbin
3:27 OBS/Aitum/KZbin Studio Setup
4:39 Create Stream Keys
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[@DarkenedCyrus]

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[@TeleNox_]

@DarkenedCyrus is yt shorts livestreaming accessable to everyone? i tried and i dont think it worked

[@globalphantom6928]

So when I go live it’s just doing normal not on shorts

[@MrPostie]

Such a clear video, thank you for walking through all the steps and not skipping over info. Very helpful! 💌

[@CommunityTests]

Yea i did this last night i got 84 new subscribers and all i was doing was playing Minecraft bedwars with loud music playing in the background, i did this for 47 minutes and people were actually in my chat vibing i wasnt talking or anything just (Live, Bedwars, Loud Music)

[@MrsMoogleUK]

Coming in clutch as always!

[@asherdash12]

If I watch a vertical live, it doesn't let me play it in the background. I can't keep the video going to listen while I pull up a browser and do other stuff on my phone. Ugh

[@FyleMK]

you're a legend man, very straight forward

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Thanks friend!

[@dc_crush]

I knew when I went live from my phone verticals was different in the algorithm compared to horizontal on streamlabs. I’ll definitely be testing this out today playing COD MW3

[@donutrosietv]

thank you brother 😭😭🙏🙏 great guide

[@REALGOODCOMMS]

THANK YOU FOR THE GUIDE At first I saw the 10 min guide and thought OH BROTHER but it was all VERY informative Have a good one dude!

[@DarkenedCyrus]

You’re welcome, and thank you!

[@GRUBB-MUDD]

I love doing it. Btw how do u do poll questions in vertical lives? That is key

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Not sure if it’s built in like it is on TikTok. If I’m honest, I doubt it will be a feature anytime soon

[@Shawbby]

Do you have two separate obs opened to do both KZbin live? One obs for horizontal and another obs open for vertical? Or is there a way to go live on the shorts feed and horizontal feed through one obs?

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Nope! In this video, I used the Aitum Vertical Plugin to do both in the same OBS program

[@Shawsy_games]

Appreciate the video. I was on chat with youtube today and they couldnt answer this hahha

[@PughsReview]

Definitely going to try this

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Totally!

[@TheMagicTarot123]

Thank you bunches

[@thebuffalogoldguru]

great job thanks

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Thanks!

[@Gaming_Dive]

Ok guys its true...... i got 3 times more views streaming Vertically than my most viewed stream

[@Hubb990]

Thanks! :D

[@DarkenedCyrus]

You’re welcome!

[@JonTheCobraCrosby]

I got lost at create 2 stream Keys how? Once I do vertical how do I create another without messing up the one I just made

[@rogervelasquez9853]

More exposure on vertical lives worked fine until 2 weeks ago, now, exposure has plummeted last 2 weeks

[@Kevintendo]

What’s fricken crazy is I started streaming vertical 2 weeks ago and thought I was crazy lmao because my friends were popping off on vertical for MONTHS 😂 Could you and I chat about it at some point? Discord, insta, phone, whatever is best for you

[@SKETCHGAMING69]

Is it taxing on proformance? If ur playing fps games? Great vid

[@IdoBerg]

it doesnt work for me when i try to go live.. i copied the exact same settings you have and it just says error

[@TheHHSBCrew]

Cqn you use with streamlabs obs

[@DistortionFN]

Hello! I was wondering if watch hours from vertical live streams count towards monetization watch hours?

[@pype720]

Do I need the vertical plugin to show up on the shorts feed? I only want to stream vertically.

[@zbuffer]

This will create 2 separate chat rooms correct?.. so if you say, only have 1 mod , they would have to be on both streams simultaneously?

[@Chef_Gorilla]

So does going live on your phone make it automatically vertical?

[@lycanfx]

Worked wonders mate. Tried to do both youtube and tiktok at same time and everything lagged bad. I think tiktok live studio is cpu heavy

[@DarkenedCyrus]

TikTok studio has also caused me problems to be honest and I have a very beefy PC and gigabit internet. Glad that was helpful!

[@zerik_media]

Just tested this with my setup using restream as my horizontal stream feed and only streaming vertically to youtube and it worked perfectly. It doesn't solve the tiktok problem, but I just wanted to share this info in case it was useful

[@DarkenedCyrus]

@zerik_media love this!

[@Triple-Gaming]

You may have to change ur kbs in obs settings! First know your upload speed! Then you take that number and do the math! Like he said if you only got 10mbps and your trying to run 6000kbps for two platforms your ganna have issues! I stream live on 3 platforms, I’m going to try 4 tomorrow with TikTok and see how it works out! Maybe you can do a video on how to do the math! Also I thought shorts had to be 60 seconds to be a short! So I’m definitely going to try this out! Don’t know I will have the bandwidth to be live on 5 platforms! But if I get this to work I’ll do shorts live and forget about the regular way! Thanks bro! Gave a like and follow!

[@jinstakill]

Thanks! Question: Can we multistream and go live vertical and wide screen so our livestream can show up on both shorts and search?

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Yep! Just set up 2 events and choose 2 separate stream keys to stream to

[@zbuffer]

Some more questions... If you are sending 2 streams , which one is shown on your channel page? Which one is sent out as notifications?.. if someone subscribes on the vertical stream , do they then get a notification for the horizontal next time ?... How then do they find the vertical version?

[@CODMTV_]

Can you make one for prisim live

[@sweetgaming7373]

Sensai, I have a question. So, my lap top is handling streaming 4 horizontal streams well (Kick,Twitch,YT,Rumble). Would it handle 1 Vertical Stream to YT and 3 Horizontals to the other platforms?

[@DarkenedCyrus]

As long as the bitrate is similar, 100% Padawan

[@tropicF1]

I need to figure out to do this with my PS5

[@maychal1000]

It's said that this can get you more reach. Is it true?

[@azazelFATAL]

When I start the vertical Stream , it appear in full not as a shorts format and that too in small screen left side keeping all other space Blank..can anyone help me with that...Thanks in advance

[@symungous]

Great video! 2 questions: 1. Im assuming that Vertical Streaming watch time does not count for YPP, or does it? 2. Is there a VOD for vertical streams created by YT after stream ends?

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Totally does and is treated like a normal stream. You have to leave the VOD public for it to count towards YPP

[@symungous]

@DarkenedCyrus that's actually huge! Thanks for the reply! I've built my subscriber base up using shorts so having the ability to reach them AND the engagement counting for YPP is a big bonus

[@CapnFlags]

Can I use the backup KZbin server? Only my vertical stream is going 🤔

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Sure? No reason you can’t. Can’t do vertical to one and horizontal to the other as it will still be the same stream key, which won’t work.

[@Eddylive]

so once you setupi the stream keys for both , you dont need to keep changing them every time you go live correct?

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Nope! You will need to schedule the vertical stream to use the stream key and to have a title/thumbnail if using aitum to stream it.

[@Eddylive]

@@DarkenedCyrus and the regular horizontal stream is just normal, you just click go live like normal?

[@Dezlah]

everytime i hit stream all vertical outputs it freezes n crashes my obs instantly

[@Sempreinferie]

Got a question. I made a few vertical lives and made them public once ended but I couldn't see any comments once the live ended and got saved. How do I enable it so that it doesn't look like I'm crazy and talking to myself?

[@DarkenedCyrus]

The messages when live don’t count as comments. Turn on live replay and anyone can see the chat from the live relay function.

[@Sempreinferie]

@@DarkenedCyrus where do I turn that on?

[@Mxarioxoxo]

whén i do it says scedued and i cant live stream it

[@sandynduts]

Why my vertical stream doesnt count as shorts live? Can anyone help me?

[@north2green]

does the watch time count towards monetization? I checked out several videos and no one mentions it, so i assume no one knows because that would be an obvious question to answer in this type of video?

[@DarkenedCyrus]

100% does.

[@GRUBB-MUDD]

Can u use stream yard or just obs

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Can you change the resolution to vertical in Streamyard? I’d so, then yes!

[@GRUBB-MUDD]

Stream yard has a vertical live function

[@GRUBB-MUDD]

So what did u mean stream vertical and sideways at the same time. 2 dif places? Like yt and tt?

[@GRUBB-MUDD]

​@@DarkenedCyruslook bro i been here b4 asking about stream yard

[@KMF171]

I cant get it I had it and it diseapeared and I cant get it back

[@gregoryfitness]

Thanks for the great info! I had been wondering how to set this up for vertical with a stream key. Very helpful

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Love this!

[@pewpewpops]

But, are the videos linked? I want to use the traffic of shorts to bring people into the horz video. I am thinking they are not linked as one video.

[@DarkenedCyrus]

They aren't. That is one "downside" but there are so many upsides also. I'm doing an update video to this with the findings I've had after 10 vertical streams. Lets just say, it is something I am going to be continuing on my channel moving forward.

[@pewpewpops]

@@DarkenedCyrus oh, yeah for sure moving forward definitely gonna be doing it as well. I just thought there may be a way to link the two, but it’s OK. You can always just pin the horizontal link at the top of the stream. Streams on KZbin shorts gets way more traffic. redirecting the traffic is a good idea if we’re doing longform.

[@DaLoneRunner]

Is it possible to go live vertically if you are streaming straight from your console like the PS5?

[@DarkenedCyrus]

As of right now, no. There isn’t an easy solution for this. Maybe soon though as some companies are thinking about this!

[@DaLoneRunner]

@@DarkenedCyrus thanks for you input and dropped a sub

[@axmol911]

Hello how can I live stream vertically when I am on ps4 ?

[@BTacticsTV]

You'd need more than just a PS4. You'd need a capture card and a PC of sort.

[@OroVR]

i installed it yesterday and its disappeared from my obs today

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Go to Docks and click the vertical docks to bring them back

[@rj7pev]

im on streamlabs desktop can this work? without paying for streamlabs ultra? when i tried togo live it said change my resolution output?

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Yep! Just change to a vertical resolution and go live!

[@rj7pev]

@@DarkenedCyrus didn’t work for me in desktop so I downloaded obs and done it there also do you think watch time still counts towards monetisation or not?

[@jessy8a10]

The problem is the monetization.. I am not getting any ads in my vertical stream. Any idea why?

[@DarkenedCyrus]

This might sound harsh, but did you enable them? I have to check on this every time I stream as it turns off

[@jessy8a10]

@@DarkenedCyrus yeah it said on. But I checked it after I finish stream. Next time I will check at the same time just to see. But do u get ads in your vertical stream? Because another thing is I also never get ads when I am watching shorts. And I don't have ad blocker... It's weird

[@pierokunnnn]

how do you fix No output server in OBS?

[@KristoferBurns]

Following

[@KristoferBurns]

Sorry I just found the problem lol at the bottom of the screen where you put in the stream key you have to press okay. I did that and it finally worked. On my laptop i couldn’t see it but I saw it on my steam deck

[@icemanuk8586]

could you also go live on twitch playing games ?

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Yes! I’ll be doing another video on this soon

[@icemanuk8586]

@@DarkenedCyrus I might try it during the week.

[@TheHHSBCrew]

Any Mac users using this. im having issues even downloading

[@DarkenedCyrus]

The plugin does work on Mac. Just confirmed on their website. Just make sure you are installing on a version of OBS that is 29+

[@TheHHSBCrew]

@@DarkenedCyrus can I use this in streamlabsobs?

[@Slat3d]

Does anyone know if watch hours from shorts feed streams count towards monetization?

[@spazzacamino]

Yes

[@coinecc]

The VOD becomes a regular livestream afterward, so you’ll get watch hours but only if you keep the stream public. I unlist the vertical streams personally, since they won’t be in the shorts feed after you end the livestream.

[@DarkenedCyrus]

@coinecc this is correct for the views and watch hours to count, you need to leave it live, not unlisted

[@EliBricks_YT]

Can anyone tell me how to stream a vertical live from my ps4?

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Unfortunately you cant

[@EliBricks_YT]

Dang, not even with a capture card

[@DarkenedCyrus]

@EliBricks_YT you totally can with a capture card, but not a give on the console

[@antract]

Does somebody know why my vertical stream reaching 0 views and viewers? I streamed for 1.5 months, and 3 weeks before i always had 5-10 viewers, chat activity and active subcriptions. Now always 0\0\0... And this started when i uploaded video to YT and deleted most saved streams...

[@DarkenedCyrus]

Only thing I see different is you streaming less than an hour on your last three lives. You aren't doing much commentary for people to jump in to when you are live and your audio from your latest Fortnite stream has scuffed audio where you can't hear the gameplay. Not saying these are the reasons, but some things I noticed when looking at your channel

[@antract]

@@DarkenedCyrus Thanks a lot for response. The poblem is that there is no viewers at all :) I mean, even if audio was normal or other stuff - nobody observes this. Sometimes i launch boosting via putting preview of stream on some TV show websites, but this doesn't help...

[@antract]

@@DarkenedCyrus I mean, that i didn't changed anything on my streams in field of settings or other stuff. Just after 1st May i didn't get any organic views and live viwers... I thought maybe it happened because i deleted all old stream saved videos from YT or idk..

[@morten_exe]

I dont even know how to watch a vertical live on KZbin?

[@DarkenedCyrus]

In the shorts feed. To view your live in the shorts feed, go to your channel page and click the live when you are live

[@mrmomb]

I REFUSE to ever watch a vertical KZbin video!!!!

[@Marvel_Contest_Of_Champions]

Vertical streaming sucks, it's look horrible. I don't understand why people does it

[@DarkenedCyrus]

1k subs, donations, and almost 40k views from 14 vertical streams. That’s why people do it!

[@KristoferBurns]

It may not look as good but I honestly watch more live vertical lives than landscape, call me weird but it seems like you’re closer to the creator lol. I found some really great creators from lives shorts

[@BTacticsTV]

I mean twitch sucks as a platform for everyone yet it's the number 1 streaming platform. I don't think 1 person opinion matters in this case.

[@RenFlames]

What if your using restream ? How does restream pick up the aitum vertical stream ?

[@DarkenedCyrus]

It won't convert horizontal to vertical if that is what you are asking. You'd use aitum to just stream to KZbin Vertical

[@RenFlames]

@@DarkenedCyrus yeah like restream just connects to KZbin by signing in, it doesn’t let you put the url and stream key onto restream 😭 also thank you for the speedy response, totally subbing ! 🙏