If you're a merchant with your own YouTube channel, you can showcase your branded products through multiple experiences on your YouTube channel, including live streams. To prepare you for hosting a live stream to talk about your shoppable products, read on to learn some best practices for your product data sources.
Before we get started, make sure that you have completed the onboarding steps for YouTube store data sources and familiarise yourself with hosting YouTube live streams.
Onboard onto the YouTube store programme four weeks before
Choose how customers should check out
Customers can check out directly on your shop's website on a desktop or mobile.
Fix account and product data source issues at least two weeks before
For the products that you want you to tag in your live stream, make sure that you fix any account issues or product issues that may be violating any of our Shopping policies or YouTube policies at least two weeks before your live stream.
If you experience problems, learn how to troubleshoot your issues.
Product drops for launching a new product
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If you want to launch a new product during a live stream, ensure that you follow the disclosure date
[disclosure_date]attribute guidelines. - Review the additional product drops on YouTube best practices to ensure that your YouTube Studio settings are correct.
Don't make any data source changes 72 hours before the live stream
To ensure that your products are shoppable for your live stream, don't make any changes to your data source or account 72 hours before your live stream, including the landing page and image. Making changes may cause products to get disapproved and therefore not be taggable in your live stream.
Run a dress rehearsal
Whether or not you're comfortable with hosting live streams, it's a good idea to run a test with an unlisted live stream one week prior to get familiar with the new product tagging experiences. If you're launching a new product using the disclosure date [disclosure_date] attribute, run a test live stream with an existing product. We recommend a low-selling SKU.
Visit the YouTube Help Centre to learn about tagging products in your live streams.
For any YouTube Studio questions for live streaming, contact YouTube support.
