Milton Transitions All Live-Streaming, Video Archiving To YouTube

MILTON, GA — The City of Milton recently transitioned live-streaming and video archiving from a paid service to YouTube - saving the city around $32,000 annually while offering better audio and video quality.

Milton's YouTube channel is now home to all live stream public city meetings, videos of past meetings and other original content. In the past year, the city communications department has significantly enhanced this channel with an increasingly wide variety of offerings on everything from fireworks to the new farmer's market to glass recycling and more.

Each city board and committee has its own playlist, which makes finding videos easier. Live streams appear on the YouTube channel's main page before being archived to the coinciding board/committee playlist.

The city is actively transitioning all past meetings to the YouTube channel. All meetings prior to June 21 are still available on the "Watch a Meeting" page on the city's website, but all meetings past July 4 are now archived on the YouTube channel only.

In December, when the paid video contract ends, the City of Milton Streaming Media Archive portion of the "Watch a Meeting" page will be replaced by links to board/committee playlists on the city's YouTube channel. By that time, the city will have uploaded all past meetings to the YouTube channel, in the appropriate board/committee playlist and titled by date.

Those interested in getting the latest videos from the City of Milton can go to the YouTube page and click "subscribe." If you want to see the proceedings from a particular meeting or watch other videos, go to that page and click on a specific playlist:

• City Council
• Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA)
• Community Zoning Information Meeting (CZIM)
• Design Review Board (DRB)
• Parks & Recreation Advisory Board (PRAB)
• Planning Commission
• News