How can you live stream your podcast using StreamYard?
I am so excited to chat with you in today's video to show you how
you can take your podcast,
whether it's something you've been doing behind the scenes,
and produce it live using StreamYard.
We're gonna talk about some ways that you can do it.
And I'm gonna show you some step by step tutorials for you to get your podcast
up and running as a live stream. So let's jump right in.
Hey, streamers,
Krystal here again today to show you how you can
set your podcast up to live stream it using StreamYard.
This is a fantastic tool that I have found that podcasters can really
take advantage of the opportunity to engage with their audience show behind the
scenes,
or really just have a different connection with their audience while they
are creating their podcast content.
So I'm actually gonna show you in my StreamYard account,
what it's like to set everything up and get prepared to produce your next
podcast episode as a live stream using StreamYard.
So let's go to the computer and I'm gonna show you how this is done.
So here we are inside my StreamYard account,
and I want to first to go over and create a broadcast
that is going to be whenever I am going live for my podcast.
So I think it's really important that you decide upfront when you're going to
start your podcast episode,
like actually recording it because you want people to join you there live.
I think that that's,
what's so fun about recording live content is you can have that engagement in
the community and you can share comments and you could just make it more of a
party whenever you are creating your content live.
So I encourage you to schedule it beforehand instead of just creating a,
a broadcast and clicking that go live button.
So I'm gonna go over here and create a broadcast and
when I do that,
I'm gonna select new broadcast and I'm gonna select all the different places
where I want to go live. Let's say my Facebook page,
let's go on LinkedIn and YouTube.
I could also just select one and really drive all
the that I want to engage on. Let's say my YouTube channel.
I just wanted people to go to my YouTube channel.
And I could say that on my social channels, like, Hey,
make sure you join me on YouTube at this specific time,
because I'm recording a live interview for my podcast,
or I'm doing a solo episode and it's a training and I want you to see what I'm
talking about, or, you know, however your content is gonna be formatted.
But I think it's important.
You tell people where they need to go to watch your
live stream. But for this example,
I am just gonna do all the different places and I'm going to put down
test interview.
You would put the name of your podcast or potentially the topic you're going to
be talking about.
You wanna put something that's gonna entice people peak their curiosity.
So they're interested in coming to live,
not watching the replay, but they actually wanna see what you're up to,
maybe who you're talking to.
You can name drop if you have someone real fancy or someone that
your audience would be excited to hear from,
you wanna put that in the title of your livestream.
And then down here in the description,
you could talk further about what people can expect
whenever they show up live. So you could put,
and I'm just gonna kind of list out a few things here. You could put topic
topics, let's do that that will be discussed,
if I can type correctly.
And then you could also put name of guest.
What time you are going live,
put name of your guest, okay,
what time you're going live and what is something else fun that we
could put in here?
You could also put it that you want people to engage in the
comments.
So make sure you show up live and put
your questions in the comments.
I always like to put something like this. Again,
it just kind of lets people know what to expect whenever they show up live and
if they've never been to one of your live streams before,
or if you've never done this before,
it's gonna be really helpful for people just to know what to expect,
how they can plan to engage with you and just, I don't know,
it's a lot of fun or you could put, we're gonna do a podcast recording me,
myself and my guest, and then at the very end, we're gonna do Q and A.
So if that were the case, I would put, stick
around until the end for some live
Q and A with our guest, whatever you wanna put in here.
But I think it's something that is going to entice people to come and show up.
All right, I'm gonna schedule this for later and then it's gonna tell me all the
different specifications in StreamYard for, um, when you can start,
if you can start late, if you can't start late and all those things here,
I'm gonna schedule this way out into the future.
And oh wait. No, not that far. That was a little too far. It's like, no, wait,
that's not gonna work. There we go. Okay.
That's gonna make it happy and then there we go.
So now it is scheduled out.
It's ready to happen and I can click create broadcast.
I don't wanna do that because everyone's gonna get notified and have all these
notifications. But whenever you do that,
your followers on these different platforms will be able to see when you're
planning to go live. Now let's go into StreamYard.
And I actually wanna show you inside the studio, what it's like to,
have everything set up to make this actually
happen for your podcast. So in order to do that,
I'm actually gonna hit record only.
So we can go to test interview. This is just,
it's gonna make sure that no one gets notified that I'm going live.
I'm going to click test interview. So, uh, create broadcast.
So from here, when I'm in the studio, you can see,
I added myself to the stream and my camera's not working because I'm using it to
record this video right here ,
but what I would do is make sure everything is set up before I hop in
here and just hit go live,
because I think that it looks a lot more professional.
If you have a few things set up beforehand.
So if I were recording a live podcast episode,
I may come over here and put up some podcast banners that I will typically have
when I'm recording live. So let's look at some of these. I could say, Hey,
y'all tell us where you're watching from. This is something that I like to have.
I like to have this as a ticker on the bottom of my livestream,
whenever I'm live.
I also have another one that is type a Q in front of your questions
and make sure you ask your questions, because I think, again,
this goes back to the expectations of what you want people to do when you are
actually live. Or if you had other things that you wanted to display,
like let's say I wanted people to connect with me on Instagram.
I could put that up on the screen as well.
Or you could put in the topics that you're gonna discuss.
There's a lot of options that you have here. I also have, let me go back out.
I have some very specific banners that I will use,
and I will customize these whenever I have a guest
that's on the show and I want to make sure I have their information on the
screen.
So I just have the default podcast guest name and a link to their website,
or I could put up here the name of the podcast episode or the topic that
we are discussing. I also have, again, an IG profile.
If I wanted to highlight where people could go to find them,
maybe that person that I'm doing an interview with is they actually say, oh,
I'd love for your people to come, hit me up on Instagram.
I could just display that real quickly while they are talking.
So let's go through some of the other ways to get prepared before you go
live with your podcast. Um,
you could put different branding things like I always have this banner right
here, or this little logo. This is my show, The Proffitt Podcast.
So if I were recording something and I wanted to make sure all the videos
and everything afterwards was gonna have my branding,
then I could put this up here.
And that's just a little subtle way to have the branding show up on the screen.
Let me turn off this, that way we can,
when we are talking about all these other things, it's not distracting,
or I could just put my little simple logo up there in the corner and it will
display whenever we're live. If you wanna get fancier,
you could have something like this.
These are overlays that were created using Canva and
anytime you want to upload these into StreamYard,
I always go back and I look at this little, uh, question mark right here,
because it will tell you the exact sizes that you need to
create these overlays or logos or some of the background
images that you can use. So you can see up here,
logo recommended is 200 by 200.
The overlay is 1280 by seven 20.
So anytime I go in to Canva, I just go back in, like,
I gotta make sure I put this up correctly. Um,
another thing that you can do is an overlay like this, where it would,
it almost looks like a banner at the bottom,
but it would have maybe my face and then the guest information as well.
Um, if I were doing this again, I wouldn't cover up so much of the screen.
I would make it a little bit smaller. You know,
you live and you learn and you learn how you wanna do these things. Uh,
and then of course you have just the regular StreamYard overlay,
which is fun to use if, uh,
you're looking for something visual to have up there and then
you could also customize a video to play
while like a countdown timer,
whenever you are about to go live. I love these.
I think they're so much fun and there's a lot of different ways that you can do
them. There are some default timers that are in here,
but I've created some custom ones now that I've been streaming for a while and I
could always create something that it's like, hey,
here's a custom countdown timer for myself and my guest and the interview that
we're gonna do. And then there are some other options for backgrounds.
If you wanted to change something different,
then you could absolutely do that here. Um, there's also background music.
This is a new thing, which I think is super, super cool.
If you wanted to display just a static image and have some background music
here and like, while you're waiting, like this is your countdown timer,
you could absolutely have this information there as well,
but then once you make sure everything is set up and your schedule time has
arrived for you to go live with your show,
then you would come up here to the top.
Obviously we already said we're in the record only option,
but you would click the go live button and you would go forward with your
podcast. Now, if you are recording with a guest,
you would wanna follow the proper protocols to make sure that you did a sound
check with them beforehand.
Make sure you check out some of the other awesome videos on the StreamYard
channel so that you can set up the green room properly between you and
your guest.
So there's one more important thing that we need to cover and that is how do you
actually get your are audio files once they are recorded in StreamYard?
So as you can see here,
I didn't actually start recording and have a recording of this since it
was a record only, and not a previous broadcast,
but I wanna show you how to get your audio files to turn them into a
podcast episode. So I'm going to go up here to past,
which is where all of your broadcasts will live once they have been recorded and
they're out into the world.
And what you would do is I'm gonna come down here to this one,
cuz it's about 26 minutes,
which is about the length of a podcast episode for me and you can click
on download and then from,
you can decide if you want to just have the video recordings,
you want the audio recordings and if it is you and a guest,
you can download each of your audio files individually
and then you can do whatever it is that you wanna do in the editing process to
turn that audio file into your podcast episode.
So now that you know how to record your podcast using StreamYard,
I wanna know what questions do you have about podcasting and live streaming.
Make sure you put them in the comments below because we have so many amazing
videos here on the StreamYard channel that can help you further your podcasting
dreams and help you create better content with confidence.
So make sure you check out all the other videos we have on the StreamYard
channel. And as always remember, keep streaming.