Livestream to Facebook

Thanks for the info, @Kristina16marie.  I actually found some of that later yesterday when doing some more research. 

For clarification... this isn't a Zoom restriction, it's a Facebook restriction, and apparently only affects livestreaming to GROUPS, not to Facebook in general.

I watched the YouTube video in the link @Lisa-11 posted in her reply.  I highly recommend watching it... it has "the solution", and while the speaker (I think her name is Lisa, but probably not the same Lisa as Lisa-11 on this thread) does a GREAT job explaining how to get around it, I still think the average user might get confused somewhere along the way.

This blurb might help...

The issue, I think, is that allowing a third part app to access a Facebook group allows that app to see some things that you probably don't want the app to see.  I'm pretty sure Zoom plays nice with your Facebook group and doesn't steal information about who the members are, etc, but we all know "not everybody is nice." So removing the third part app's ability to access the group is being removed for security purposes.

But many people might not know that there is a way to stream to almost any stream-able service by using the "Custom RTMP" approach.  What is this?  Without going into the details, let's just say that the "third party app" negotiates the RTMP codes behind the scenes, so you don't have to deal with it.  Kind of like "going on autopilot".  The "Custom RTMP" approach requires you to do a couple of things, all of which are explained in the YouTube video in detail:

• First, you need to ensure that your Zoom account is enabled to use the Custom RTMP approach to streaming.
• Secondly, you have to go into wherever you are streaming from (in your case, Facebook Groups), and grab the two RTMP codes you need.
• Next, you have to paste those RTMP codes into Zoom in the appropriate place for your Zoom meeting or webinar.
• Lastly, when you're ready to stream, select "Live on Custom Streaming Service" instead of "Live on Facebook":

There's plenty of information on the Zoom Support site about using Custom RTMP:

https://support.zoom.com/hc/en/article?id=zm_kb&sysparm_article=KB0064210

As with most things -- especially things like Zoom and livestreaming -- I recommend testing it out in advance.  Make a new, private group that you can use to test things -- test, fail, try again, repeat, repeat, repeat.  Eventually you think you have it down... then go to your "real" group and test one more time (there might be a difference somewhere you hadn't accounted for!).

Good luck!