Small business▲+2Since September 2026: 0% → 2%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
2%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 9 pointsRank 85 → 24 of 84
1 category · RankedYouTube Live
28Judge labels
3First choices
10Negative labels
12 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
4% in Streaming for mid-market buyers
Rank 5 of 98 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 31% of its 13 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of YouTube Live →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business26 of 88
2%14 labels
criticized challenger
Mid-market5 of 98
4%13 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise73 of 81
0%1 label
under the label threshold
In streaming · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named YouTube Live for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streaming platforms | Data platform | 4% | 5 of 98 | 31% | 13 | criticized challenger | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, YouTube Live held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 11 points.
Best category · Streaming · by segment
Mid-market▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
4%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 7 pointsRank 21 → 5 of 94
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Streaming | 0% | 4% | ▲+4Since September 2026: 0% → 4%, +4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 21 → 5 of 98 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated YouTube Live across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated YouTube Live across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct2 labelsNone
Paraphrase0 labelsNone
Comparative4 labelsNone
Budget-constrained11 labels3
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative11 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative28 labels in all, every segment counted; 3 of the 3 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“the best starting point is usually YouTube Live or Facebook Live because they are free” Perplexity Sonar · Streaming · budget prompt · first choice
“If you want zero cost, YouTube or Facebook Live are excellent.” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Streaming · budget prompt · first choice
“starting with YouTube Live or Vimeo for a balance of affordability and professionalism” Muse Glimmer 30B · Streaming · direct prompt · alternative
“1. The Absolute Cheapest Option: YouTube Live or Facebook Live” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Streaming · budget prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“attempt to stream sensitive content over open platforms like YouTube, Facebook Live, or even unprotected Zoom links face real consequences” Muse Glimmer 30B · Streaming · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid free social platforms (YouTube, Facebook, Twitch) for mission-critical paid events — no support, no control.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Streaming · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid for Business-Critical Streaming: Free Consumer Platforms” Kimi K2 · Streaming · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid: Facebook/Instagram/YouTube Live for professional use.” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Streaming · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as YouTube Live, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and YouTube Live was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as YouTube Live, over the 28 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and YouTube Live was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named YouTube Live. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 27 of the 28 answers that named YouTube Live and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
dacast.com23
devopsschool.com13
uscreen.tv13
eventlive.pro8
blog.webex.com7
guideflow.com7
redpanda.com7
candidstudios.net6
cotocus.com6
myhospitalnow.com6
Ninety-six of the ninety-six domain citations in answers naming YouTube Live came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
youtube.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, YouTube Live takes 4% of first choices and Confluent Cloud takes 39%.ShowHide
Search and answers
youtube.com ranks 7 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, YouTube Live takes 4% of first choices and Confluent Cloud takes 39%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “event streaming platform”
7
Position for “event streaming platforms”
8
- Searches for its name, Google
- 33,100 a month (“youtube live”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 21,861 a month
- Organic visits to its site
- about 3,335,384,769 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 159,453,895 · 12,614,179 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 18,393,262
- Paid Google search
- 2 searches its ads show for, about 14 clicks and $40 a month (estimate)
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
4%
rank 5 of 98 in streaming
Segment leader
39%
Confluent Cloud
- First choices
- 3 across its categories
- Named in
- 28 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 27 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
What it publishes
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What it publishes
ShowHideAddresses on youtube.com
10,003
subdomains included
Content
284
counted in the table below
Documentation
0
Product · Integration
7,720 · 0
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 225 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 29 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 27 | 0 | 2023-10-10 | ||
| Comparison | 1 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 1 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
Most recent
- 2023-10-10Live streaming on youtube webinar or virtual event
- 2023-10-10Live streaming on youtube webinar or virtual event
- 2023-10-10Live streaming on youtube webinar or virtual event
- 2020-07-14Live streaming on youtube webinar or virtual event
- 2020-07-14Live streaming on youtube webinar or virtual event
- 2020-07-14Live streaming on youtube webinar or virtual event
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page youtube.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.
Names read as YouTube Live
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as YouTube Live; a claim can dispute any of them.
Facebook Live / Instagram Live / YouTube Live 1YouTube 1
Follow YouTube Live
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
The company
YouTube Live is its own company.ShowHide
The company
YouTube Live is its own company.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- A step-by-step guide to live streaming on YouTube. Get discovered and connect with your community in real time with YouTube Live.
- For
- Creators
- Customers named
- @Mogswamp@wewearcute@lizzy.dances@AuthenticTeeCee2.0@JennyHoyosThe Coding TraincbgrayDjMaRii0
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, certifications, hosting
What YouTube Live's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: youtube.com/creators/create/live, youtube.com/creators/create/overview, youtube.com/intl/es_es/creators/live-streaming-on-youtube, youtube.com/intl/es_us/creators/live-streaming-on-youtube, youtube.com/intl/fr_ca/creators/live-streaming-on-youtube. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Is this your product?
Claim this page
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when YouTube Live's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as YouTube Live, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for YouTube Live by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:
- where YouTube Live is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name YouTube Live, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
- one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.