How do I create the YouTube link for my live stream?

You make the broadcast on YouTube, and Setnayan sends the pictures to it. Do this in the last week before your celebration — not months ahead, because a broadcast left sitting for a long time can go stale.

1. Go to https://studio.youtube.com and click CREATE (the camera icon, top right), then GO LIVE.

2. Choose STREAMING SOFTWARE — not "Built-in webcam". This is the option that gives you the connection details Setnayan needs.

3. Give it a title (for example, your names), and set PRIVACY to UNLISTED. Unlisted means only people with the link can watch — it never appears in YouTube search or on your channel page.

4. Set "Made for kids" to NO, or live chat and some other features get switched off.

5. In the stream settings, choose ULTRA LOW LATENCY so people watching are only a few seconds behind the room, and switch ADS off so nothing interrupts.

6. You now see two things you need to keep apart:

- The STREAM URL and STREAM KEY. These go into your streaming software. The stream key is a password for your channel — never share it, never paste it into Setnayan or anywhere else.

- The WATCH LINK, from the Share button. It looks like youtube.com/watch?v=... This is the one you paste into Setnayan.

7. Open your dashboard, go to Studio, then Live Studio, and paste the watch link into the "How guests watch" box. Your celebration page will show a Watch Live player during the day.

The short version: the stream key goes to your streaming software, and the watch link goes to Setnayan. Getting those two the wrong way round is the one mistake worth being careful about.

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