Live stream to Facebook profile

« To Live streaming: Overview

Live stream your Riverside recording session to your Facebook Timeline profile to reach a broader audience. You can also live stream to a Facebook page, Facebook group or Facebook Live Video Event.

If you've already connected your Facebook profile to Riverside and want to change it, follow these steps connect a new a Facebook profile.

Who: Hosts and producers
Plan: All plans
Device: Computer browser

Watch a video

To live stream to a Facebook profile, you must have:

Step by step

  1. Log in to your Riverside account.
  2. In the ☰ menu on the left, hover over the Studio, and click ••• [the three dots].
  3. Click Record.
  4. On the Lobby page, enter your details and click Join Studio.
  1. At the top of the Studio, click Live Stream off.
  2. Under Stream to social, click the facebook-circle.svg Facebook icon.
    live-stream-menu-new.png
  3. In the Connect your Facebook account pop-up, choose Facebook profile.
  4. Click Continue with Facebook.
  5. Log in to Facebook.
  6. Click connect.
  7. Under Connect your Facebook profile, choose the profile to connect to Riverside.
  8. Click Got it.
  9. Click Go live to start the live stream.
    It may take around 30 seconds for the video to appear on Facebook.
  10. After you go live, ensure that your the permissions on your post are set for the right audience:
    1. In another tab, log into your Facebook account.
    2. Go to your profile.
    3. On the top corner of your live stream post, click the three dots to open the menu.
    4. Click Edit post.
    5. At the top of the post, under your name, click the current audience (i.e. Only me, Friends, Public).
      If you want to receive messages from people watching the live stream on your Facebook profile, you must set the Facebook post to Public.
    6. Select the correct audience.
    7. Click Done.

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