YouTube just made available a new version of Live Redirect to streamers on its platform, which now allows channels to not only send their audience from one of their streams or Premiere videos to another within their channel, but also direct their audience to another channel once they go offline. The premiere launch event of Top Gun: Maverick utilised this Live Redirect feature, as it directs nearly 150 Paramount branded YouTube channels to the live stream of the event. Creators: Live Redirect is here! Help each other grow by redirecting ➡️ your viewers to other creators’ live streams & Premieres as soon as yours ends.More on who’s eligible & how we’re giving you control over who redirects to your channel: https://t.co/OnqR2qip9M pic.twitter.com/EibtaWvTtc— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) May 3, 2022 On Twitch, this action of sending audiences to another channel is called ‘raid’. By default, Twitch allows redirects or raids from anyone, a setting that can be changed but many don’t do that. This has created the issue of ‘hate raids’, where a streamer’s channel is flooded with abusive text, whether through bots or other users directed there from another channel that has an issue with the streamer. Taking note of this, YouTube…
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