Watching other people play video games has actually become pretty big these days, with the streamers becoming actual celebrities and making a lot of money. It is pretty hard to become successful in this business, but who knows – you might be the next big streamer if you are good enough at Garena Free Fire.

In this guide, we would list out some of the most effective methods to answer the question “How To Live Stream Free Fire On YouTube?”. To start streaming, you might need one of the better phones and a good internet connection, as streaming in parallel with gaming might cause lags and performance dipping, which in turn would affect your gameplay experience.

1 - How To Live Stream Free Fire On YouTube Using Phone

In the past, you can stream Free Fire straight from your phone with YouTube gaming, however, after Google updated the Android app last year, it is not as easy to stream anymore. YouTube Gaming was integrated into the main YouTube app, allowing gamers to stream from their phone.

how to live stream free fire on youtube
How To Live Stream Free Fire On YouTube: You can play the game using an emulator - the process would then be pretty straightforward

On the other hand, this has created a large entry barrier for aspiring creators. To stream on the platform using a phone, YouTube requires you to have at least 1000 subscribers. This is a rather harsh change, as 1000 subs is not a number a mobile content creator could be able to reach without the ability to stream. The reason behind this action is allegedly people streaming violent content like shootings in America.

If you have acquired 1000 subs somehow – below is a guide for getting started on streaming using the main YouTube application.

How To Live Stream Free Fire On YouTube
How To Live Stream Free Fire On YouTube: The process used to be pretty fast until YouTube blocked it
  • Open the YouTube app.
  • Tap the Capture (camera) icon next to the search button.
  • Select Go Live.
  • Allow access to your camera, microphone, location, then tap Create Channel.
How to do live stream on YouTube of Free Fire
How To Live Stream Free Fire On YouTube: You can even buy subscribers on the internet to surpass the 1000 limit and stream right away
  • Select the phone icon in the top right corner
  • Set up the title, description and privacy settings for the stream
  • Set up the stream thumbnail and orientation for the screen
  • Press Next to get to the final part, afterward, hit Go Live to start streaming.

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2 – How To Live Stream Free Fire On YouTube From PC

You would have to go around and connect to PC and stream onto YouTube using that. You can even stream on Twitch as well. Below is the method for streaming your android games on the platform.

Using OBS to Live Stream Free Fire On YouTube

Due to the restrictions on YouTube, you have to stream your phone screen onto a PC in order to broadcast your gameplay on YouTube. In order to do this, OBS is your best bet.

How to do live stream on YouTube of Free Fire
How to do live stream on YouTube of Free Fire: Obs is probably the best and most popular streaming software for new users

Because of those limitations, you would need to prepare some streaming software setup to begin streaming. The most popular amongst the bunch is probably Open Broadcaster Software or OBS. You will need three things to stream using OBS: A computer, an Android phone in USB debugging, and a cable to connect your phone to the computer.

Firstly, you need to download and set up OBS. The steps are pretty straightforward – just follow the video below.

OBS lets you record your screen and stream gameplay from your PC to YouTube. Playing with a cable attached to your PC might be a chore, but you would have to bear with it until you have more than 1000 subscribers.

To get your phone ready for screen sharing, you would need to unlock the developers' option on the device. Navigate to Settings > About phone and tap the build number ten times until you see the developer options. Enter it and enable USB Debugging.

Next, you would need to find an app that can stream your phone screen to the computer. There are many of them – but in this article, we used Vysor. The app is not free, but you can always download a cracked APK file somewhere on the internet – it is free to download and test, however. Once OBS is set up to your PC and a streaming software is installed on your phone, which is connected with a cable, you can begin to stream on YouTube.

The next step is to link your YouTube Account with OBS

Firstly, you would need to get your YouTube Stream Key.

Get to the streaming menu by selecting “Create > Go Live” on the top right. You might be redirected to an account verification page if it has not been verified with a mobile number yet. After the verification process, the Go live button would open up a menu.

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How to do live stream on YouTube of Free Fire: YouTube's settings section in which you would have to modify the attributes of your stream

Select Stream on the appeared toolbar. A form would appear for you to set the stream name, description, privacy mode, and more. With the stream created, you can proceed to the stream settings tab and get the 16 character strings key.

Link OBS to YouTube by select Settings >Stream and input your key in. Twitch stream uses a similar process. Or you can just stream Free Fire on Booyah!, a platform created by Garena for Free Fire streaming. While the benefits on Booyah! is not nearly as good as YouTube, streaming on the site is much more straightforward and easy.

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