What’s changing
We’re improving live streams for Google Meet with two new features:
- Cross-domain live streams. Previously, only guests in your organization could view a live stream. Now, admins can designate trusted Google Workspace domains for Google Meet live streams. Once added, you can also invite users in those trusted domains to view live streams hosted by your organization.
- Captions in live streams. Now, a user has the option of enabling captions when starting a live stream. At launch, captions for live streams will be available in English, German, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Note that captions are already available for Google Meet video calls.
Who’s impacted
Admins and end users
Why it matters
Many companies have important meetings that require delivering a message to large groups of people, like a company-wide all-hands or onboarding training. With live streaming for Google Meet, up to 100,000 users (or 10,000 in some editions) can watch the meeting from the web or their mobile device.
Cross-domain live streams allows you to extend the viewership of the live streams not only to the guests within your organization, but also to guests in another trusted Workspace domain.
Captions in live streams can help make meetings more accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing users, and can help other users who have a preference for reading text rather than listening get more out of the meeting.
Captions enable users to read what’s being said in the live stream
Getting started
- Admins:
- Cross-domain live-stream support: Use our Help Center content to learn how to add trusted domains for live streaming in Google Meet.
- Note that you can add any Workspace domain to the trusted domain list, but we recommend that you only add domains that you own (such as subsidiary companies or schools in your school district), as adding domains can potentially give access to livestreams to anyone who has an account in those trusted domains.
- Captions in live streams: There is no admin control for this feature.
- Visit the Help Center to learn more about turning live streaming on or off for your organization.
- End users:
- Cross-domain live-stream support: Will be available if enabled by your admin. If available, use our Help Center to learn about live streaming a video meeting.
- Captions in live streams: The feature is available by default for all users with live streams available. To use live stream captions in a specific meeting, meeting participants should first turn on live stream captions from the main meeting. Use our Help Center to learn more about using captions with a live stream. Visit our Help Center to learn more about live streaming video meetings.
Rollout pace
Cross-domain live streams
- Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on June 30, 2021
- Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 12, 2021
Captions in live streams
- Rapid Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on June 30, 2021
- Scheduled Release domains: Gradual rollout (up to 15 days for feature visibility) starting on July 12, 2021
Availability
- Available to Google Workspace Enterprise Standard, Enterprise Plus, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus customers
- Not available to Google Workspace Essentials, Business Starter, Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Essentials, Education Fundamentals, Frontline, and Nonprofits, as well as G Suite Basic and Business customers