Facebook Live vs. YouTube Live

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Facebook Live
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Facebook supports livestreaming on its own platform, with Facebook Live. Users can go live on Facebook to broadcast a conversation, performance, Q&A or virtual event.N/A
YouTube Live
Score 7.7 out of 10
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YouTube Live is the platform's livestreaming service.N/A
Pricing
Facebook LiveYouTube Live
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Facebook LiveYouTube Live
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Facebook LiveYouTube Live
Considered Both Products
Facebook Live
Chose Facebook Live
Facebook Live is similar to Streamyard, although it serves a slightly different purpose. We like using both together. Streamyard can allow you to bring multiple people into the Facebook live stream, although offers some new glitches as well. Facebook live is smoother and works …
YouTube Live
Chose YouTube Live
i just clicked the first one i saw, i haven't tried any other live streaming applications / platforms
Chose YouTube Live
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Chose YouTube Live
YouTube Live Is more cost effective it is more widely seen easily available and better while I have used Facebook Live, Linkedin Live, instagram live YouTube Live is more easier. to use, but combined with a multi streaming platform the net effect is excellent and you can …
Chose YouTube Live
They didn't have TikTok Live or Twitch, but those would be, I think, the best examples of competitors. Many other platforms have channel points; they have hosting/raid features that allow people to get discovered more easily. YouTube Live feels very behind the times with the …
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.5 out of 10
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Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.5 out of 10
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Score 8.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
Facebook LiveYouTube Live
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
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8.0
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Usability
7.0
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8.0
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User Testimonials
Facebook LiveYouTube Live
Likelihood to Recommend
The best tool to stay connected and remain friends. Very popular tool as it allows you to search and meet up with old friends. Plus, you can even post ads for your company to promote yourself.
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If you have a preexisting community somewhere (a newsletter for example) and you want to interact with them, YouTube Live is a great tool to do that. In my experience, a Live is great to make announcement, discuss topic or even make interviews if you integrate it with Zoom.
I guess it's not as useful if you haven't build a community yet, since people are not going to show up on your live if they don't know that you exist.
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Pros
  • Live Broadcasts
  • Webinars
  • Broadcasting information
  • Conversational Chat
  • Prompting reactions
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  • Since Covid I tend to watch church live
  • I follow [...] and she has two channels. One for random, on the spot and her second channel for recordings.
  • Some supermarkets do live advertising or clothing shops I've seen/watched
  • music is my every day live at work
  • international news. YouTube is my only paid service.
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Cons
  • It has a lot of annoying advertising.Reduce ads
  • It should have more filters when searching for a post
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  • It could have options of studio like a oneline platform of restream of fb live to help make multi people connect, tickers etc
  • There should be options of virtual backdrops and faceless live streams with other videos or images via mobile
  • It could make resharing content a little easier to more platforms and also improve the auto edits into bite sized content
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Usability
It is easy to use, quite intuitive. I miss some documentation for the configuration, especially the access security.
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It provides a lot of tools, but in order to be a 10 it should be a little bit more "visually friendly". Also it contains so many options all at once that it can be overwhelming. Other than that, it's a great software for your business/personal project.
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Alternatives Considered
Facebook Live is similar to StreamYard, although it serves a slightly different purpose. We like using both together. StreamYard can allow you to bring multiple people into the Facebook live stream, although offers some new glitches as well. Facebook live is smoother and works better for our advertisement / informational broadcasts.
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YouTube Live Is more cost effective it is more widely seen easily available and better while I have used Facebook Live, Linkedin Live, instagram live YouTube Live is more easier. to use, but combined with a multi streaming platform the net effect is excellent and you can actually stream to all the platforms together at the same time
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Return on Investment
  • Higher coverage
  • Higher cost for setup of equipment
  • Mobile phone gives limited screen coverage
  • Live streaming has 2 second delay
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  • Not much way for brands to be personal
  • not a great way to get noticed or get traction without other platform
  • No Channel points for getting viewer retention
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