Planning an event? With scheduled streams, creators can build hype and gauge interest by planning ahead and offering access passes in advance if wanted.
For Creators
How it works
Timing and checking in
You can choose to schedule your broadcast immediately or in the future. Regardless of what you pick, the process is the same: you need to check in manually to your scheduled stream and the next time you go live, regardless of the scheduled time set, the schedule stream will start.
You can check in when you create your schedule stream by ticking the check in box, or later: when on your scheduled stream page or your list of scheduled streams, you can press the 3 dots icon and then select "Check in".
If you are already broadcasting when you check in, you will need to manually terminate your current broadcast and re-start a new one for it to be the scheduled stream.
⚠️ Important: the time you pick for your scheduled stream does not drive when your scheduled stream will go live. It is purely for telling your audience when you are planning to start this scheduled stream.
Checking in is what drives your next live stream to be your scheduled stream.
You can check out of a scheduled stream at any point before going live with a scheduled stream on your scheduled stream page or your list of scheduled streams, by pressing the 3-dots icon and then selecting "Check out".
Broadcast access
Like any other regular broadcast, you can decide if you want to restrict the access to your scheduled stream to subscribers only and/or require paid passes.
ℹ️ Note: Whatever stream access is defined for the scheduled stream will also be valid for the VOD of this scheduled stream, unless manually updated on the VOD once it is available.
You can know more about monetizing your content in our Paid broadcasts help section.
Event details
In this section you can fill in the details for your scheduled stream, similarly to any other regular broadcast.
ℹ️ Note: It is your responsibility as a creator to turn on the Adult Content toggle if you're planning to broadcast adult content. More info about streaming adult content can be found in our Community Guidelines.
Multiple scheduled streams
You can have up to 7 scheduled streams at the same time.
ℹ️ Note: You can only be checked in to one scheduled stream at a time.
Checking in to a scheduled stream will check you out of any other scheduled stream you're currently checked in to.
Thumbnail
Once your scheduled stream is created, you can then add a thumbnail to it.
When on your scheduled stream page or your list of scheduled streams, you can press the 3-dots icon and then select 'thumbnail' to add one.
ℹ️ Note: It is your responsibility as a creator to turn on the Adult Content toggle if you're planning to display adult content in your thumbnail. More info about streaming adult content can be found in our Community Guidelines.
Editing a scheduled stream details
You can edit the details of a scheduled stream at any point before going live with that scheduled stream. You can do so by clicking the 3-dots icon on your channel page, or in the list of your scheduled streams.
Check in: As a creator checking in is the way to make your next broadcast the scheduled one.
Scheduled time: Allows you to update the scheduled time if you are not able to make the original committed time.
Price: Allows you to change the access requirements to the scheduled stream. You can toggle subscription or pass prices.
Edit: Allows you to change the scheduled stream details like toggling on Adult content, update the title, tags, language, category and description.
Thumbnail: Allows you to add a custom thumbnail for the scheduled stream.
Cancel: This will cancel the scheduled broadcast. Any passes sold will be refunded.
Creating your scheduled stream
Click "Scheduled Streams" icon on your /watch page
If you don't have any scheduled streams already planned, it will open the scheduled stream creation modal. If you already have scheduled streams planned, you will see the list of upcoming scheduled stream and can click on the "Schedule stream" button to create a new one.
Set your event details
Click "Save"
ℹ️ Note: Viewers will be able to see the next scheduled stream when viewing the creator's channel page. Viewers can also access more scheduled stream listings via the creator's /watch page "Scheduled streams" icon.
For Viewers
View scheduled streams
Viewers can see a creator's next scheduled stream when viewing the creator's channel page.
To see more scheduled streams, navigate to the creator's /watch page and select the "Scheduled streams" icon under the video player.
Access to paid scheduled streams
Some scheduled streams or VOD content may require an active subscription and/or an active pass to view.
If a scheduled stream is not live yet, you can look at the tags under its description to know what the requirements are for this specific scheduled stream.
To buy a pass, click on the 3-dots icon.
To subscribe to a creator, go on their /watch page and click the "Subscribe" button.
If the scheduled stream is live, it will act like any other Paid Stream. You can refer to our How to Watch Paid Streams section in our Paid Broadcasts help page.
If you do not have enough tokens to buy a pass or subscribe to a creator, you will be prompted to buy more tokens.
Questions?
Contact our support team at [email protected].