Want to involve your Community in your Livestreams? Grant them video and audio permission so they can join you on stage!
Communities are collaborative places and your members have so much to share. Livestreams can be a place to promote that sharing and develop a really connected environment, and you can do this by allowing your members to participate in your Livestream.
As a Host, you can allow up to four other members at any one time, to share their video and audio in a Livestream you are hosting. All of this is managed during the Livestream itself, and none of these members need any profile permissions to be eligible for this. So let's find out how this works!
Please Note:
If you Go Live whilst in portrait mode, you will not be presented with the multiple Live-streamers options. However, you can Go Live in landscape mode and then once Live, rotate your camera to portrait mode and use the multiple Live-streamers options.
Inviting a Member to Participate:
As a Host, you can either provide video and microphone access to a member, or respond to their request for access.
How to Give a Member Permission:
Click on the users icon to show you the list of current members who are watching your Livestream.
Click on to the member that you wish to grant new permissions to and you will see the following options.
All users initially have the chat only permission for a Livestream. However, if you want a particular user to be able to present in the Livestream with you, select the option for video, audio and screen sharing and then press change permissions.
Once that's done, you'll notice that their user profile has a small red camera icon next to their name, to indicate these new permissions.
When granting a member these permissions, their device camera and microphone are initially off in case they're not quite ready to be broadcast to your Community. However, once they enable them, you'll see the screen layout shift to accommodate them.
The same process is done to add another three users to take you to your maximum of five Livestreamers at any one time.
Responding to a Members Request for Permission:
A member can request for permission to share their video and audio, and they do this by raising their hand. When a member raises their hand, you're given an alert and you can see the hand icon next to their profile.
You can either press allow video/mic in the notification to enable this permission or select the members profile from the viewers list and grant them the permission through there.
Of course if you don't want them to share their video or audio, you can simply press the x icon next to the notification and it'll go away.
How Does a Member Request Permission:
A member can request to have video and audio permissions by simply using the raise hand feature. A member presses the hand icon and an alert is sent to you as a Host indicating that the member wants permission to share their video and audio.
The member will also see a message letting them know that you as a Host have received their request.
If you grant their request, the member will then see another notification letting them know that they can now share their video and audio in the Livestream.
A member's camera and microphone are automatically off when first given the permission to share, so that they're not caught unaware!
Removing Permission from a Member:
When it's time to revoke a members permission to share their video and audio, you can head back to the viewers list, select their profile and change their permission.
You can also click on the three dots icon at the top corner of the members window and select the option to remove video/mic access.
Other Functions and Actions:
You can still share your screen with multiple Livestream Hosts in the same way as usual.
However, it's important to remember that if you grant permission to a member to become a Livestream Host, they too have the ability to share their screen too.
Top Tips:
- You can only have up to five Livestream Hosts at any one time.
- Granting a member permission is all done during the Livestream, you don't need to do anything beforehand.
- Be mindful about who you grant permission to, don't forget they will be able to share their video, audio and screen if they want to.
- You are always in control. At any point you can revoke permission and end the Livestream too.
- You and your members will need to be on the following App versions to have the multi streamer feature:
- Android: version 4.117
- iOS: version 4.56