Are you wanting to livestream directly to your website, maybe
you're running a special event or some sort of fundraiser, but
you want to really control that experience and maybe offer
either as a free event directly on your sites or with ticket
sales? Well, how can you do that, we're going to talk about
today the best solution I found in order to live stream directly
to your site.
Hello, and welcome. I'm Nick Palkowski. And on this channel,
we talk all about live streaming, and videography, and
how you can use those to grow your business. And in today's
episode, we're gonna talk about how you can actually go live
directly to your website with a really cool service that's out
there. And this is going to be perfect for those of you that
have, say, some sort of ticketed event that you want to charge
for, and go directly go live directly on your site, or you
just want to, maybe you're doing some sort of fundraising event
or some big special event that you want. Don't just want to
have on social media, but you also want to control on your own
website has a way to get people back to your site, and start
engaging with your brand that way versus just relying on the
reach of Facebook or YouTube or something like that. So let's
jump in and talk a little bit about this service, where we
specifically talking about caster, now I did a previous
video, you can check it out right here, all about casters
multi casting service, which is really great, allows you to go
to multiple different platforms at the same time. But with their
live streaming plan, you're actually going to be able to go
directly to your website have kind of that embedded player
that's going to be able to play directly on your site. So let's
jump in and see just what caster is all about. Now here you can
see I am inside outside ninja caster. And again, I am on their
live streaming plan, that they have their multicasting plan and
they have their live streaming plan. The slight difference,
there's few different differences. But mainly the one
we want to focus on is that their live streaming plan allows
you to live stream directly to their site where their multicast
or is all about going to multiple different platforms.
Now with their live streaming plat with their live stream
plan, you can also live stream to multiple different platforms,
but you're going to be able to have that embedded player that
you can go directly on their site. So we're going to go here
and click Create a new stream. And again, we want not new
multicasting stream, we want new live stream because it gives you
your own embedded player. That's the key difference here. So
we're going to select that. And let's go caster, test stream.
And then I'm gonna go ahead and select US Central because I have
here in Madison, Wisconsin, so the central region. Alright, so
here we are. And again, if you want to hit over here, you can
add all these other platforms, which is really great can be
really useful. I have a full again, full video on how to do
that right here, just click this one, it'll walk you through
everything for that. So we're going to skip that right now.
And what we're going to look at right here is how to actually go
ahead and set up everything for their streaming plan for their
streaming service, so we can embed it directly on our site.
Now, first thing we're going to do is set up our streaming
element, I'm going to go ahead and grab this right here. This
is the deployment region. And this is the streaming URL. So
with that, we're going to go into our third party system,
which is where we're using e cam right here. So you can see this
is the camera for E cam. I have it up here, cameras super set up
super well. But I wanted to have separate cameras here, so we can
just make sure to get everything exactly the way you want it. Now
let's go ahead and add a new stream, I'm going to go ahead
because we're changing some of this, this was for that previous
video. And there we have the rtmp there, we're going to copy
the stream key and paste and use custom stream key. And now we're
all set up, we have our custom stream key ready to go. And I'm
going to go ahead and hit go live just so you can kind of see
how this is all working, we can kind of build this one at one
step at a time, you're not necessarily going to want to go
live right away. But I want to make sure I show you every
element of this. So we're going live let's get this out of the
way that is for that. And you can see after a few seconds,
because there will be a delay. There's always going to be a
delay when you're streaming. So you're going to notice some of
that here. But there's a small slight delay, but we can see we
are fully live we have our preview window right here. This
is what the preview window looks like. But now it's time to go
ahead and play With this on our website, so
let's go ahead and jump on in to our sites. Alright, so here we
are behind the scenes on a one of my websites, I'm going to go
ahead and create a page. And then we're going to use to embed
this, we're gonna create something super simple, super
basic. And you can easily add in multiple different layers. If I
was creating an event page, I would add several different
layers including the URL, we would say it's a multi day
conference, or even even if it's a couple hour conference, you
might want to have a schedule in there, something like that. So
you're gonna want to decide what layers you're going to be
adding. I like the theme divvy, you're gonna see that's what I
use for all this. If you want to link to divvy, you want to check
that out, just check the link in the description. I'll also
include kind of right here, Nick Palkowski comm slash divvy, it
really is one of my favorite themes, I use it to build all
the websites. So let's go ahead and use the Divi Builder, we're
just gonna start building from scratch, because I just need
kind of this basic piece in order to show you what we're
going to be building and we're gonna, I'm gonna go ahead and
add the text. And Alright, and we're gonna go here and jump
back to we're backing caster. Now you can see we're still
streaming. And you can see it's at 30 frames per second, you can
see the resolution, you can see the bit rates, obviously, we
have no viewers, because we're not live anywhere yet. So I'm
going to go ahead and grab the iframe widget. And if you jump
back into this here, when I go paste that, Alright, so here's
kind of just an example of what that page looks like it has the
player embedded right there. And again, this is the iframe that
we use to add that here. And you can pause and stop it
fullscreen, you can make any sort of adjustments that you
want. And right there, your put is your player. Now, they also
have the option to rather than use an iframe, you can use the
embedded embedded URL. So in I'm going to grab the embedded URL,
and we're going to tap there. And you can see right there,
then you get kind of that full screen. If you just want to send
somebody directly to your live stream with nothing else around
it. You're okay with the caster IO being there, you can just
share that URL, it's going to take you right here. So you kind
of see that. So again, caster is really something that I enjoy, I
really like the way it's set up, especially in this live
streaming aspect and just allows you to do so much in terms of
creating the environment for your live event, this is going
to get you out of that kind of social media, Facebook, YouTube
driven world where it has to be exactly the way they look, you
can't really do a lot of customization around it. You
have to be on their platforms and driven through Twitch and
LinkedIn and stuff like that. This way, you're going to be
able to take some control of it. And it might be a great way,
especially if you have say, an older audience, if you are some
or an audience that doesn't have you know, those Facebook
accounts those YouTube accounts, but you want to create the best
experience for them, you can grab and use this plan to
direct it right to your website, you can drive all the traffic
there. But then you still have the flexibility with caster of
being able to send it out to multiple different platforms,
without having the load the bandwidth load by trying to
individually send it out, you can send one stream out to
caster and then caster will take care of the rest and send it out
to the entire where however many places you want to send it out
to they have several different options there and lots of
flexibility in their plan. The other thing I really like about
caster is just it's super simple interface. So you basically set
things up, and then you send it. And then as long as it's going
through, you can kind of send it here, I do want to run through a
couple more things. They do have some analytics here. So you can
see concurrent viewers, things like that. You can see player
hits, so the number of times people have hit that, that
player, that embedded player, and you can get breakdown some
of your analytics there. Obviously, with a stream, that's
good enough to know, and we're not going to have a lot there.
These are just a couple pages that I have opened as the reason
while recording this as the reason we're getting some hits
there. You can do recordings, so I could record the streams. And
you can see they'll be recorded directly. Recordings now
enabled. So I could go ahead and record right from there if I
wanted to. You also have the option. This is really cool. And
this is what I'm talking about when I'm saying you can really
customize things is you can change the theme of the player
so we could change it. So the players slightly different
themed, we can enable passwords, protection on your stream. This
is again, if you're selling a ticket for example, if you're
doing a ticket to a live event, this is where this This is super
powerful, you can have that password there, only send it out
to the people you want to be able to send it out to who have
paid for that event. It's really awesome. Enable autoplay, I like
to enable I like to leave that on. I like things, especially if
it is a live stream event. You want people to be able to see
that right away. So that's where I like to have that enabled. And
then you can even add Google Analytics, you can enable multi
bitrate transcoding, if you want to enable chat, this is really
cool. If you want to keep everything within Kassar, now,
this is in beta, so I don't want to necessarily talk too much
about it. But I think I really love the fact that they're
adding this feature, because right now, a lot of times what I
ended up doing is with events, I will create a whole separate
chat role. And that just kind of lives under the lives underneath
the embedded player. And it's just an extra step extra little
hassle, and is two different services. So the fact that they
are now creating that chat feature, love it. And then you
can change the thumbnail basically is what this is, you
can also enable a watermark, if you want your brand logo like a
little bug here, over in the corner, you can add that, and
I'll play on your it'll show up on your player. So people always
know who it's coming from. And it's just a nice little subtle
touch to add that extra little bit of branding, especially when
you have it kind of I like to have it either Weiss or at least
a little bit transparent just so it's kind of they're not too
intrusive. But it's a great way to add that little extra little
bit of professionalism to your streams. last little bit,
there's the security section here, this is where you're going
to enable password protection. You can block certain countries,
you can whitelist so that only people from certain areas are
able to watch your stream. And you can also enable domain
whitelist seen which will basically allow you to only have
that embedded playlist playing on specific domains. So nobody
else is going to be able to play it on a different website or
steal your content. This is just another extra little security
level that kasur has in especially again, this is great
if you are doing ticketed live events. Biggest honestly biggest
reason I think to check some of this out is if you're doing
those ticketed events, it's going to add that extra element
of security but have a really streamlined ease of use. There's
other services I've used out there that can be more difficult
to get up and running 10 the interface can just be a little
more clunky, and not as smooth and just not as nice as what
Kassar allows you to do here, which is why I love them.
And then the last thing I want to showcase here is it is again
hit this several times, but it is just that super simple
interface. So really all you have to do if you want to
disable the stream from this end. So we have our stream kind
of running here, I could always finish it here and stop it on
the actual third party streamer and but third party switcher and
but if I want to disable it directly from caster say we're
logged in there or whatever, I just want to shut things off to
all the different streams that are happening, all I have to do
is hit disable. And you can see we've disabled the stream so I
can quickly shut it down. And then even if I do want to bring
it back in, I can I am able to do that right from here, it
doesn't necessarily stop the stream, the stream still
maintained, so I can easily re enable it. So this is great. If
you have to, you know quickly shut something down or your I
wouldn't necessarily recommend disabling the stream. If you're
just going on a break I like to add say in E cam, add some sort
of elements that showcases that we're on a break we'll be back
in this time. So some sort of graphics, something like that.
That's how I'd recommend going on a break. But if you need to,
for whatever reason you are able to do it on this end, which I
think is great. And that's really all there is here to do.
There's not a lot else to do so it's a super simple, super clean
interface. So again, highly recommend you check out caster
head on over to Nick Palkowski comm slash caster and look at
their live streaming plan. I think this is a plan that a lot
of people who are watching this channel a lot of you out there
would really benefit from and could really use because of the
flexibility it gives you with your live stream. So if you want
to learn more about cash register multicasting service,
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