Schedule live streams in advance and stream them directly to YouTube, Facebook, or LinkedIn, making it easy to build excitement and plan effectively. Once the session is created, you can go live at the scheduled time without any additional setup in the studio.
Who: Host and producers
Plan: All plans
Device: Computer browser
IMPORTANT: Connect social media accounts to Riverside before scheduling your eventTo ensure a seamless streaming experience, connect your YouTube, Facebook, or LinkedIn accounts to Riverside via the studio before scheduling an event.
Step by step
- Schedule a studio session.
- From the scheduling page, to the right of Livestream destinations, toggle on
to enable it.
- Click Add thumbnail to upload a custom thumbnail image.
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Next to the desired live stream destination (YouTube, Facebook, or LinkedIn), toggle on
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To customize each platform, click the three dots next to the destination, then select Edit details.
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From the panel, you can edit each platform's custom title, description, privacy settings, and thumbnail.
By default, the details you initially added will appear across all destinations.
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Click Create session.
An event is created on platforms that you toggled on in step 3 to notify your followers about the upcoming live stream. -
Next to each destination, click Copy link.
Share the link over email, social media posts, text messages, ect. for people to join the live stream.
Update Facebook settings after connecting
When connecting to Facebook for the first time, you need to update your privacy settings after connecting:
- Go to Facebook.com.
- Navigate to Settings.
- Select Apps and Websites.
- Find Riverside in the list and click View and Edit.
- Under audience settings, change Only Me to Public.
- Click Save.
Start scheduled live stream
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From the project page, click Join session.
The studio opens with the livestream panel displayed, and the scheduled destinations already toggled on - At the bottom of the studio, click Go live to start the live stream and recording.
It takes around 30 seconds for the video to appear on the sites you are live streaming to.
Good to know
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Toggling off a destination will prevent the livestream from taking place on that destination. However, it will not delete the event from the platform. To delete a scheduled livestream event from a platform, delete the event on the platform itself.
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To fully delete a scheduled livestream, you must remove the scheduled stream both on the destination platform and within Riverside.