YouTube live notifications that actually arrive

The YouTube bell icon promises that turning it on means notifications for every new video. In practice, the bell signal is just one input to YouTube's notification delivery decision. The delivery decision also depends on OS-level notification permissions, the YouTube app's own throttling, your subscriber engagement history, and a handful of other factors that vary by platform and version.

The result is a delivery rate that creators consistently report as well below 100 percent. For a creator who streams once a week and depends on subscribers showing up, that gap is the difference between a packed live chat and an empty room.

We connect to your channel through the YouTube Data API and YouTube's WebSub push subscriptions. The instant your channel goes live or publishes a new video, we have the event. We then dispatch a native mobile push to every follower who opted in to your notifications, plus an email if they enabled that channel.

The signal does not pass through YouTube's notification stack. It does not depend on the bell. It is not subject to YouTube's ranking, throttling, or per-app delivery rules. It just goes.

You connect your YouTube account once during onboarding. After that, you do nothing. Live, premieres, and uploads all trigger notifications automatically. You keep using YouTube exactly as you do today, and your followers who opted in to Catchmylive notifications get a reliable signal on top of whatever YouTube decides to surface.

For followers who opted in on multiple platforms (a creator who is on YouTube and Twitch), we deduplicate near-simultaneous live events in a 15 minute window. One stream, one notification, even when you simulcast.