I'm Christian,
Karasiewicz and I'm the Content Marketing Manager at StreamYard and today
you're gonna learn how to use starred comments,
also known as pinned comments within your StreamYard
dashboard.
Now this new feature is available across all StreamYard
plans.
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So let's take a look at how to use starred comments within your
StreamYard dashboard.
So this new feature is available across all StreamYard plans.
Now here's how you access starred or pinned comments in
StreamYard.
So here I am within the StreamYard dashboard and what I want to do at least
right now for demonstration purposes is I want to go look under past broadcasts.
Now here, I'm gonna go into the livestream reviews show that we do.
We get a lot of comments during this live stream,
and it can be very difficult to keep up because you're constantly getting
comments and you're trying to interact with your viewers at the same time.
So I'm just gonna simply click on the three dots and select enter studio. Now,
at this point,
I'm gonna go into that broadcast and I'm going to go over to the comments tab
over here on the right-hand side. And now, as you can see,
I have a lot of comments that I can star or choose.
Now, here is how this feature works.
So let's say I want to, let's find a good comment to pin.
Here's a good one. They want to know about this you know that question.
So what I can do is simply hover over any of the comments in my broadcast,
and you're gonna now see the star icon over on the right-hand side.
When you click that what's going to happen is it's going to create this new
starred section within your StreamYard dashboard.
Now, uh, the great thing about this for example,
is I can just go and I can select any comments that I want to include and
this is especially helpful if, for example,
if you get a lot of comments and let's say,
somebody's asking a comment at the beginning of your stream,
and you wanna make sure you don't miss it as your comments are coming in.
So all you have to do is simply just select the star icon and what it's gonna do
is you can see the color's going to also change.
So it's not going to be this color. It's gonna be more of a,
a purple color here. And so that's gonna change for example,
then let's say, we want to include this one. Uh,
this person has a great comment here as well.
And let's say those are all the comments that we want to display on star.
So what we can do here, by the way, I'm gonna add myself to this stream.
I'm gonna, uh,
hide this overlay and we're gonna go back to comments and I'll show you how this
works. So we have all them live comments.
These are comments that are coming into your broadcast.
And then now if we want to, you know, say,
we get to a point where we're ready to review comments.
We can click the starred section. And as you can see here,
all the comments that we selected are right there.
We can simply click on the comment to show that comment. Now,
right now you cannot reorder them. So they come in whatever order you add them,
or you star them in within your StreamYard dashboard.
So for example, we display that one.
Let's say we display this one as well and then let's say, you know what?
We're finished with this one. If we want to remove it from the starred comments,
we simply just need to deselect the star and then that's gonna hide the comment.
Now, one thing I want to mention is that as you can see,
I've removed the comment, but it's still on-screen.
If I want to hide that comment, I can simply click on hide current comment.
And then now I'm back to my normal StreamYard broadcast with just me on screen
and I have my comments. Okay.
So now that is one way to use starred comments.
A couple other ways that you might want to use StreamYard's starred comments or
pinned comments feature is after your broadcast. So for example,
you could always go through the comments that you received during your live
streams and you can star them and then address them during your live stream so
that your audience feels like they are engaged. Now,
what you could also do here though,
is you can leave them in the starred comments section until afterwards.
Now at this point,
let's say you get some really good comments and you know what you're like,
that would be a really good piece of content,
or that would be a really good video. Instead of having to make those notes,
you can star all those comments and they will stay within your StreamYard
dashboard. So when you go back into the past broadcast,
you'll still have those comments there. Now,
the other way that you can use the comments feature in your
StreamYard dashboard is simply to use it in conjunction with a
live stream producer. So for example,
if I were working with a live stream producer, and I wanted to,
you know, have them, for example,
manage all the comments during the live stream,
what I can do is I can assign them access to my studio, using StreamYard Teams,
and then they would be able to go in at the same time as me and
flag some of the comments. So for example, they could flag this one and then,
uh, let's see,
let's say we wanted to flag this one as well and then now all those comments are
going to be there within your StreamYard dashboard for you to either
bring up on-screen or for you to obviously also to kind of keep in the back of
your mind, maybe as questions you want to address and so forth.
But that is how out to use the starred comments or
pinned comments within StreamYard.
Let us know what you think and if you have any additional questions about
starred comments,
please leave those in the comments below and don't forget to like,
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