Three steps to use your Zoom account and start an interactive live stream.

As an organiser you want to ensure you are engaging with your audience at all times to help make the digital experience more inclusive. A good way to do this is by introducing an interactive element to your event and one way to do this is to use the interactive livestream plan which enables your audience to answer questions and polls in addition to the live chat box used to interact with the speaker/artist and attendees. As the host you can use your Zoom account to connect and start your interactive live stream.

To try this out, you'll need to first set up the interactive event through your publish dashboard and then activate the 'Custom Live Stream Service' on your zoom event. You can follow these steps to start the livestream using your zoom account. So let's get started!

Step 1: Setting-up the Director View

1. Go to Director’s View from the 'hosting' dashboard

2. Click on Holding Room

3. Toggle the LIVE button to switch it 'ON'

Step 2: Setting-up your Zoom Event

1. Activate 'Custom Live Stream Service'

As you are the host or the co-host of the meeting, only you will be able to see the 'More' option, click on More → Live on Custom Live Streaming Service (check the bottom right)

2. Enter Streaming details:

A page such as the one shown below will open up in a browser.

Pick up values to be entered in the above fields from the “hosting” section on self publish dashboard. Click Start Hosting → Spot URL and Key → Copy and paste values in the Stream section (as shown above)

Step 3: Hit 'Go Live'

Once you have entered the above values, the page will show a loading bar and your Zoom call will have a red button on top indicating 'preparing stream'.

Browser page

Zoom page

Once the stream is ready you will see a red button on the top left of the zoom meeting screen now change to 'LIVE on Custom Live Streaming Service' with a pop-up.

Ready to get started?