{"id":9135,"date":"2019-06-21T11:50:46","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T15:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=9d63d8677345650e62e94ad96092e530"},"modified":"2019-06-21T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T15:50:46","slug":"google-is-killing-youtubes-hangouts-on-air-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9135","title":{"rendered":"Google is killing YouTube&rsquo;s &ldquo;Hangouts on Air&rdquo; this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1525443\">Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Google found out they had a desirable chat feature that wasn't a bad clone of some competitor ...and it's gone.<\/div><div>\n<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/chrome_2019-06-21_10-19-03-800x475.png\" alt=\"Google's customary &quot;We're going to kill this service soon&quot; pop-up. \" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/chrome_2019-06-21_10-19-03.png\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Enlarge<\/a> <span>\/<\/span> Google's customary \"We're going to kill this service soon\" pop-up.  <\/p>  <\/figure><div><a name=\"page-1\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Another day, another dead or dying Google product. This time, Google has decided to shut down \"Hangouts on Air,\" a fairly popular service for broadcasting a group video call live over the Internet. Notices saying the service is \"going away later this year\" have <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/7083786\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >started to pop up<\/a> for users when they start a Hangout on Air. Hangouts on Air, by the way, is a totally different and unrelated service from \"Google Hangouts,\" which is <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/01\/the-great-google-hangouts-shutdown-begins-october-2019\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >also shutting down<\/a> sometime in the future.<\/p>\n<p><aside><h2>Google kills product<\/h2>\n\t<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/06\/google-is-killing-youtubes-hangouts-on-air-this-year\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Google is killing YouTube&rsquo;s &ldquo;Hangouts on Air&rdquo; this year<\/a><\/li>\n      <li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/06\/google-hardware-quits-the-tablet-business-again\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Google Hardware quits the tablet business, again<\/a><\/li>\n      <li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/06\/this-weeks-dead-google-product-is-google-trips-may-it-rest-in-peace\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >This week&rsquo;s dead Google product is Google Trips, may it rest in peace<\/a><\/li>\n      <li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/05\/googles-killing-the-youtube-gaming-app-this-week\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Google kills its Twitch killer&mdash;the YouTube Gaming app shuts down this week<\/a><\/li>\n      <li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2019\/05\/nest-the-company-died-at-google-io-2019\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Nest, the company, died at Google I\/O 2019<\/a><\/li>\n    <\/ul><span><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/series\/google-kills-product\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >View more stories<\/a><\/span>\n<\/aside>\nHangouts on Air was popular with podcasters, since it was a super easy way to get a group of people together, on video, and have the conversation broadcasted live. Hangouts on Air started life on Google+ and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/google-pluss-hangouts-on-air-moved-to-youtube-live\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >transitioned<\/a> to a part of YouTube in 2016,&nbsp;where live group video conversations could be created in the YouTube interface and then be recorded as a video for your YouTube channel. The service had great features like chat, screenshare, and an automatic camera system that would switch to the person that was talking, making it perfect for easy podcast videos.<\/p>\n<p>With Hangouts on Air dying, there really is no equivalent, easy way to do a live streamed group video chat. Google's shutdown message points people to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/webcam\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >YouTube.com\/webcam<\/a>, but that page is only for a single person on a local webcam, not a group video chat. Rolling your own Hangouts on Air replacement would probably involve connecting multiple programs and services together. Skype can record calls but won't livestream them natively, for instance, so you'd need to pipe your calling software into some kind of livestream program like OBS, and from there you could hook it up to a Twitch or YouTube broadcast. That might be a normal workflow for live streaming pros, but it's a lot more complicated than just a few clicks on YouTube.com done entirely in a browser.<\/p>\n<\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1525443#p3\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Read 1 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1525443&amp;comments=1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >Comments<\/a><\/p><div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=sYUW0NEa3G4:zd12lLyF_go:V_sGLiPBpWU\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" ><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?i=sYUW0NEa3G4:zd12lLyF_go:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=sYUW0NEa3G4:zd12lLyF_go:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" ><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?i=sYUW0NEa3G4:zd12lLyF_go:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=sYUW0NEa3G4:zd12lLyF_go:qj6IDK7rITs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" ><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?a=sYUW0NEa3G4:zd12lLyF_go:yIl2AUoC8zA\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" ><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/arstechnica\/index?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ Google&#8217;s customary &#8220;We&#8217;re going to kill this service soon&#8221; pop-up.<br \/>\nAnother day, anot&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=9135\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}