Google Hangouts On Air enabled ?

Have any of you had your Google Plus Accounts enabled for Hangout On Air ? I am still waiting for both my accounts to be enabled.

My Accounts haven't seen the upgrade yet either.

Im curious about their rollout plan. WHEN WILL I GET MINE!!! :)

Exactly... Google rules my life already, I often find myself thinking I should be part of their fast track plan.

I’m actually really interested to see how people are going to use Google Hangouts.

I did some testing today with GooglePlus Hangout OnAir.
A friend of mine had enabled her account. After doing a couple tests on her account I enabled my account and tested there as well.

Personally I think the problem is somewhat awkward but it does work.

There is a live comments area and one person immediately posted in one of our tests asking how we were able to activate our accounts.

I noticed that one of my two tests didn't record.

The link is "dynamic" in that it's created when you go live. This means one can't promote the link in advance.

You can promote your YouTube channel though but it may not be intuitive for those visiting it, to click on the link name to view the live stream.

Overall it works but it's not the most user friendly as of yet.

Of course one could use a screengrabber and send it to your preferred streaming service.

Adding that I didn't see any obvious view counter while streaming.

Still dont have it enabled....

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Originally Posted by andrewzarian

Still dont have it enabled....

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I had to enable it from Google Hangouts. When I created an Hangout it asked to enable for YouTube. I'll see if I can post a screenshot.

Here's what I see in Google Hangout. When I enable OnAir a popup tells me it will activate on YouTube. After I do this and go to me YouTube channel I can see a Live link which brings up my channel live.

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In my YouTube channel Feed. You can see I did some tests and the top one has Red Dot and says LIVE. If I click on the link name (see next post).

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