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How-to: Add Livestreaming to Your Fundraiser

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Interact with donors virtually by adding a Livestream to your next fundraising Experience.

Livestreaming allows you to boost donor engagement during your virtual or hybrid event and delight donors with live entertainment, interactive surveys and trivia, flash auctions, live raffle and sweepstakes drawings, and more.

Enable Livestreaming

1. Select Experiences from the left menu.

2. If you have chosen a list view, click on the Experience title. If you have selected a grid view, click on the Experience image.

3. Click Edit Experience*

4. Scroll down to Select any optional features you'd like to add to your Experience* and click on the toggle so it shifts to the right:

Set the Date and Time

  1. Select Experiences from the left menu.

  2. If you have chosen a list view, click on the Experience title. If you have selected a grid view, click on the Experience image.

  3. Select Experience Setup.

  4. Go to Livestream in the timeline at the top and scroll down to Select your livestreaming date and time.

  5. Enter the desired date, start, and end time of your Livestream. The date and time that you enter here can be edited and won’t prevent you from running a Livestream before or after this time.

Donor View

Donors will be able to see a countdown to your Livestream at the top of your Campaign Page:

Good To Know

  • You can run a Livestream as many times as you like during your fundraiser, regardless of the dates entered.

  • Once the date and time for your Livestream have passed, the Livestream countdown timer will no longer display.

  • We recommend using Chrome, Edge, or Firefox browsers while presenting your livestream.

  • Hosts and presenters are unable to join the stage on a mobile or tablet device. They must join via a desktop or laptop computer.

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