Live Streaming

Broadcast live to colleagues in teams, spaces or even the entire company with interactive chat and engagement!

Notes: 

• When planning a Live Stream to more than 5,000 people, please provide Workvivo with at least 1 week's notice and the breakdown by audience location. This will ensure your live stream will broadcast seamlessly. You can contact support@workvivo.com to notify us of the above.

• Fair usage applies for our live stream capability.

• Your technical team may need to open certain ports to allow live streaming to
  work on your corporate network.

Device(s): Web, Mobile 

Roles / Permissions: System Admin/Livestreamer

How to enable Live Stream on your account

Please reach out to your Customer Success Manager to enable this setting on your account.

Once the setting has been enabled any system admin can grant this permission to other users on the account. 

1. Click into administration and find the user you wish to grant the permission to. 
2. Select edit and click on security from the side menu. 
3. Click on grant role and find 'Livestreamer' from the drop down menu. 
4. This user can now start a Live Stream from both web and mobile.

You will now see the Livestream option on the left hand side of the users activity feed on web.

Starting a Live Stream on Web and Mobile

Web

1. Click start livestream and select the device for both mic and camera. 
2. On the next screen there are some options along the bottom of the screen. 
   • The 'info' allows you to edit the name of the live stream. This is what displays when the live stream is posted so you might want to edit this to make it more relevant. 
   • Select an audience for the stream. This audience can be everyone, spaces, teams or your followers.
   • Co-hosts: Invite additional livestream hosts if you wish for it to be a dual-hosted livestream. Please note the co-host must be added to the platform in order to be a co-host. You can invite an external user to be a co-host as long as they have been added as an 'external user' to the platform. 
   • By default the record option is on and once the live stream is ended it will post to the feed automatically. Please note if you choose to switch the record option off you cannot click record once the live stream has started. There is also no way of recovering the live stream.

Mobile

1. From the activity feed click on the 3 dots on the top right of the screen. 
2. Navigate to the Livestream screen as per the below screenshot.
3. Don't worry you won't going live just yet!

4. Similarly to web you will have a number of icons along the bottom of the screen to help you set up your stream before going live. 

5. Once you are happy with the settings on your stream you can click 'go live'. 

Accessing the Livestream

When the live stream has begun, employees will see a pop-up icon on their activity feed on both mobile and web browser. 

They can access the stream from either device. 

Clicking on the icon will bring you through to the live stream.

As people join the stream you can see how many people are watching. 

Employees can like and comment in an interactive feed!

Check out this article here to see how you can Link a Live Stream to an event.