- It's Q&A time
and today's question is all around,
how do I run my live event online?
Or how do I run an online live event?
Great question.
It's one that we've got coming through so much right now
and I understand that there's a lot of confusion
because there's so many different options out there
and you can get super technical with this stuff.
So I'm gonna break it down.
I'm gonna give you three options
to get you moving forward
to get your event out there to the masses online.
So the first option I've got for you is Ecamm Live.
I absolutely love Ecamm Live.
The biggest downside is that it's on the Mac side only.
So stick around if you're a PC user
because the next solution
is gonna be the closest thing to it
on the PC side of things.
But Ecamm Live, I would say,
is one of the best livestreaming platforms or software
out there right now.
It makes it so easy for you to go live and broadcast,
whether it's just your webcam,
whether it's sharing your computer screen
or PowerPoint slides or Keynote slides,
or whether it's bringing in multiple cameras
and switching between the two.
This is really the best
bang for buck livestreaming software out there
and it is super easy to use.
If you've never done a livestream before,
you are not going to be overwhelmed with Ecamm Live
because they make everything so simple and so intuitive.
You're gonna be able to get up to speed really fast.
But even if you are someone
on the more advanced side of things,
you're gonna find everything that you need in here as well.
This is my current go-to livestreaming program
and it is the one that I strongly recommend,
again, for the Mac users.
So like I said, you've got the ability in here
to broadcast live to places like YouTube,
whether it's public to the channel for everyone to see
or whether it's an unlisted video,
so you might be embedding that on your website somewhere,
or the same with Facebook.
You can go to a page,
to a profile, to a group,
even a private group as well.
I also really like how they manage
the interaction with your viewers as well.
You can bring in your comments
from all of those different broadcasting places,
like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
and have them all in your livestream
and feature them in your livestream if you like.
You can bring them up on the screen and move them around.
So I just love that you can interact with people.
Especially if you're doing a Q&A event,
then you can bring in a lot of the questions
into your livestream as well.
The other thing I really like
is that you can easily bring in guests into your livestream.
So if you wanna do a Q&A
or you wanna run an interview with someone
or multiple people,
you can actually bring in up to five guests
inside of Ecamm.
Now, currently this is run through Skype.
So you'll just need to start a Skype call at the same time.
But the moment that your call has started,
then you will see appear along the bottom
more cameras for you to bring in,
or the people for you to bring in.
So I just love how easy that they've made this,
and even to switch between, say, a 50/50 screen split
where you're on one side, they're on the other,
or someone's sharing their computer screen
and you're down in the bottom corner,
you can do all of that stuff really, really simply in Ecamm.
And pricing wise for Ecamm,
you can currently grab a 14-day trial of Ecamm.
There's also a $12 per month subscription
where if you pay annually, it's $144.
Or you've got their Pro plan,
which unlocks all the features for $20 a month,
which is at 240 annually.
So the second option I've got for you is StreamYard.
And as I said,
this is probably the closest that you'll find
to Ecamm Live on the PC side of things,
but StreamYard will work on both Mac and PC.
And what I really like about it
is it actually runs in your browser
so that you actually don't need
to download and install anything
to get the functionality
and get all of this working.
Just like Ecamm,
they're gonna let you broadcast
to places like Facebook, to YouTube, to Twitter,
and others as well,
and whether they're private or unlisted
or whether they're into a locked down group as well.
Now, while there's not as many advanced features
inside of StreamYard as there is in Ecamm,
you've still got a lot of the core functionality
to add titles, to bring in guests.
You can actually have up to eight guests on StreamYard
and it's actually easier.
If I was to pick between the two
as to which one is gonna be easier to bring guests in,
I like that with StreamYard you don't need to use Skype.
You can actually just send out a URL
or copy a link and send that out to people,
the guests that you wanna bring in,
and yeah, they just click that and they're in your stream.
So it's really, really cool
the way that they handle that side of things,
but overall, the functionality,
it's not as advanced as Ecamm.
But it's gonna do everything that you need.
Now, in regards to pricing for StreamYard,
they have a Free plan,
So $0. It's free.
They also have a $20 per month plan.
And for the Professional,
for all the features unlocked,
it is $39 per month.
The biggest reason I would say
that you wanna be at least on that middle plan,
the $20 plan,
is that it will remove all of the StreamYard branding
or watermarks on the livestream.
To me, I'm not a big fan of seeing that
and it makes your stream look pretty cheap.
So pay the $20 per month and you'll remove that
and your stream's gonna look super pro.
Now, the third option I've got for you
is a little bit different to Ecamm and to StreamYard
and that is Zoom.
Now, Zoom is more of a communications platform
than a broadcasting or a livestreaming platform
but it does let you livestream
or broadcast your Zoom call out.
The biggest benefit with Zoom I see
is having the ability to bring in
more than five guests at a time,
six guests at a time.
With Zoom, you can actually have a hundred participants
on your call at any given time.
And if they're there on webcam
and you want to allow them to come on and join,
you can actually have that "Brady Bunch" grid view
where you're seeing everyone there on webcam
and interacting and everything.
So it's going to come down
to the type of event that you're looking to run
as to which one of these is gonna be the best one for you.
But Zoom will let you still broadcast this out
to places like YouTube and Facebook as well
and obviously you're engaging
and you're bringing in a lot of people.
Just like the other two,
you can easily share your webcam.
You can share your computer screen.
This isn't gonna support multiple cameras
like the previous two did.
But as I said, the biggest benefit with this one
is the ability to bring in a heap of people into your event.
Now, even if you didn't wanna broadcast your event out live
to places like YouTube or Facebook,
you could actually just have them register as attendees
to come and watch and attend your event on Zoom.
You can actually have people
register for your event using Zoom.
They've got all of that functionality in there.
And you can even do things like set a password
so that people need to enter that password
to be able to join the event
or to join your call.
So like I said, it's a totally different offering.
Now, in regards to pricing,
Zoom you can currently grab on a free plan,
which would let you have up to a hundred people in your call
or in your meeting,
but it is limited to 40 minutes for that session.
Unlocking that and up from that,
there is a Pro plan for $14.99 per month.
There is also a Business plan for 19.99 per month
and also an Enterprise plan for the same price,
19.99 per month right now.
But I would say for most people out there,
you're probably gonna be fine
with the Pro plan or the Business plan.
So those are my top picks
for anyone who's looking to run their live event online.
Really, you're gonna get great results
with either one of those three.
So just pick the one that is right for you
and for the type of event that you are going to be running.
Now, if you've got a question that you want me to answer
then leave it below in the comments area below this video,
and who knows?
Your question might get selected
for me to answer in a video like this.
I'll see you next time.