Are you tired of paying for expensive external hosting services just to live stream your videos? Imagine having your own interactive webpage where you can share your content, entertain your viewers, and build your own brand! And the best part? You don’t have to worry about any additional costs or purchasing external hosting services.
In this Article:
Introducing Hosted Live Pages by OneStream Live, the ultimate solution for creating personalized landing pages for embedding your streams and multistreaming on more than 45 social media platforms and the web simultaneously, without buying any external hosting.
What are Hosted Live Pages?
Hosted Live Pages is an intuitive feature offered by OneStream Live that allows you to create your own personalized webpages with just a few clicks. It provides several customization options to your requirements. So, if you don’t have your website but want to present to the audience that you do, this is the right feature for you. With Hosted Live Pages, you can create your own video landing page, add a catchy and SEO-friendly title and description, and go live.
Features of Hosted Live Pages
Hosted Live Pages is fully loaded with incredible features that will give your videos all the attention they deserve. Pushing the limits of how you can broadcast powerful live streams, Hosted Live Pages will help you in stress-free and joyful multistreaming right from your browser. No external software installations are required; stream straight through the OneStream Live app.
Complete Customization
Hosted Live Pages offer immense visual customizations, highlighting your videos with more promotional power. You can personalize your webpage with flexible layouts, customizable fonts, colors, and backgrounds. Customize the chat widget, the player, and the upcoming events notifications, and play around with several other creative opportunities to develop a unique look and feel for your webpage.
Pro-Tip: No designing skills required.
Custom Domain
Not only can you customize the visual look, but you can also customize the domain name for your personalized webpage. You can choose to name it after your business, church, educational institute, etc., or after your own name. For example, Destiny Church can choose destiny.onestream.live as its custom domain. Similarly, a musician streamer can name his webpage after his music band, aerosmith.onestream.live.
Pro-Tip: You have all the freedom in the world to name your personalized webpage as you like.
Clickable Call-to-Action Button
The most celebrated element of Hosted Live Pages is the clickable Call-to-Action (CTA) on the webpage that can drive traffic to any desirable destination. You can add a clickable link to your e-commerce website, product landing pages, donation pages, survey forms, or any other destination URL you desire. You can then redirect your viewers to the desired destination using this clickable button. This means you can also monetize your live streams; collect donations, invite sponsorships, live sell products, and more.
Pro-Tip: No coding needed.
No External Hosting Required
OneStream Live hosts all the video streams on its servers, so you don’t have to worry about buying expensive external hosting for your personalized webpages. We are constantly improving our server technology to provide you with a smooth and seamless live streaming experience.
Pro-Tip: No more complexities. No external hosting required.
Social Media Links
Hosted Live Pages allows you to add unlimited social media links to the personalized webpage. However, you can feature up to 4 links on the webpage at any given time. Send your live streaming traffic to your social accounts and increase your following.
Pro-Tip: Drive traffic to your social media channels using Hosted Live Pages.
Live Unified Chat
You can interact with the audience on your Hosted Live Page through Unified Chat. You can engage with your viewers through comments and respond to all incoming messages from all social media platforms using a single window . The viewers can leave a comment under the live chat, and you can respond to them directly from the webpage.
Pro-Tip: All your chats in one place. No more toggling between the windows.
Upcoming Events Schedule
Stay one step ahead with the Upcoming Events Schedule feature. Keep your audience in the loop for all the exciting shows to come on your Hosted Live Page so they never miss a beat.
Pro-Tip: Drive engagement like never before.
Benefits of Streaming on your Personalized Webpage
Why do you need a personalized webpage? Well, if you don’t want to stream on your social account or you don’t have a social account or your audience is not on social media, you need a webpage to reach out to your audience. That said, there are a lot more benefits of streaming on your personalized webpage:
Authenticity
Live streaming on your personalized webpage adds credibility and authenticity to your videos.
Brand Identity
You can build your brand identity by establishing branding guidelines for your webpage. For instance, by selecting a particular layout, background, and color palette, you can set up a distinct brand identity for your live streams. So, every time your viewers see your videos, they immediately relate to you as a unique brand.
Drive Traffic
With the clickable CTA button, you can drive your viewers to any external destination that you desire. For example, you can redirect your viewers to your social media handles for long-term relationships, your e-commerce website or product pages to drive sales, or your charity pages to seek donations and sponsorships, etc. You can even collect viewer data and feedback through forms to later use for marketing campaigns. The sky is the limit.
Low-Cost Marketing
Embedding videos on your own webpage is the most effective and cost-effective marketing tactic. You can showcase your products live, demonstrate their functionality and features, build hype, and promote the product in full swing. The visual appeal of your webpage will also add to the desirability of the products.
Make a Shoppable Live Stream
If Amazon’s shoppable live streams have inspired you, here’s your chance to make your own. You can showcase your products during the live videos on your webpage and redirect your viewers through the clickable CTA button to your product listings. Turn your live streams into live commerce and generate sales.
Practical Use Cases
There are several practical use cases for Hosted Live Pages. Whichever field you may belong to, you may smartly capitalize upon the power of personalized webpages to deliver an incredible watch experience to your target audience.
Churches
Not all churches have a dedicated official website to stream their services. They have one less worry now. If you are a church streamer, with Hosted Live Pages, you can customize your church service webpage, set up the mood with all the customization options, and live stream your prayers and services seamlessly. You can invite all worshippers to join the video session and interact and engage with the church in real-time. You can even collect donations by redirecting the viewers to your donations and sponsorships pages.
Marketers
Hosted Live Pages are expected to be a ground-breaking feature for the business and marketing community. An easily customizable webpage can be used to promote products through shoppable live streams, establish and maintain long-term customer relationships, present personalized special offers, and drive email campaigns with videos. If you are a marketer, you can leverage these webpages as lead magnets to attract new audiences and generate sales.
Education Industry
Individual teachers can create a dedicated academic environment or a virtual classroom using Hosted Live Pages. If you are an educationist, you can customize your webpage as per your requirements and deliver a wholesome learning experience to your student body. At the same time, you can use the clickable CTA button for multiple purposes – marking attendance, taking quizzes, submitting assignments, etc.
Music Streamers
Musicians and DJs can live broadcast their creative skills on a personalized and dedicated webpage, setting a unique mood for their videos using the innovative customization options available. So, if you are a music streamer, you can leverage the CTA button to seek reviews or drive the audiences to buy your music CDs from an affiliate music store.
How to Set up Hosted Live Pages for Live Streaming?
If you’re looking to live stream using Hosted Live Pages, there are a few things you’ll need to do in order to set it up.
1️⃣ First, log in to OneStream Live and go to Hosted Live Pages.
2️⃣ Once you’ve done that, customize it as per your needs. You can customize the layout, fonts, domain name, and so much more.
3️⃣ Next, publish your template and then go live!
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Create your personalized stand-alone video webpage using Hosted Live Pages for outstanding results.
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