Live streams

A live stream is a video meeting with hosts, speakers (participants), and viewers. You can schedule a live stream or create one now.

Live streams can have up to 500 participants and up to 10,000 viewers.

Employees of any company with the Optimal or Advanced plan can create a live stream. They get two live stream links: one for participants and one for viewers. Anyone who received the link from the host can join the live stream.

You can also create live streams in Yandex Telemost for Business via the API. For more information, see the Yandex Telemost API reference.

Schedule

You can schedule a live stream in advance and add it to Yandex Calendar.

1. Open Yandex Telemost.

2. Click New live stream → Schedule.

3. Enter the name of the live stream (it will be displayed on the page for viewers) and add a description.

4. Select the access type: For all users or For employees only.

   Note

   To join live streams for employees, a user must log in with an account hosted on the company's domain. The host and co-hosts can manage access during the live stream.

5. Choose the date and time for the live stream. If you plan to have regular live streams, enable the Repeat option.

6. Add participants and click Create.

You'll see the event with two links in Yandex Calendar: one for participants and one for viewers. All participants will automatically see this event in their calendar.

You'll have to share the link with your viewers separately. You can send it by e-mail or share it in a chat or on the project page.

You can open the link only an hour before the scheduled event starts. The connection screen displays a status message of the live stream: in progress or hasn't started yet.

Create

You can create live streams right on the Yandex Telemost start screen:

1. Click New live stream → Create now.
2. Enter the name of the live stream and add a description (they will be displayed on the page for viewers).
3. Click Create. You'll automatically become the host of the live stream.

You can also create a live stream from an active video meeting.

Start

A live stream doesn't start automatically, even at its scheduled time. Its host has to click Start live stream and wait for about a minute. You'll have to wait for the same amount to start a live stream which was paused.

Manage

Hosts and co-hosts can:

• Pause the live stream: click Pause live stream.

• Resume the live stream: click Resume live stream.

• Invite participants (speakers) to the live stream with a link.

• Share the live stream link with viewers: click Link for viewers or copy it from the live stream chat.

• Open the live stream for all users or make it available only to employees: click Live and select the access type.

  Note

  To join live streams for employees, a user must log in with an account hosted on the company's domain.

Participants

Participants join the live stream using the link provided by the hosts and act as speakers. Participants can:

• Invite other participants via a link.
• Share a live stream link with viewers.

Viewers

Viewers can:

• Open the link to watch the live stream in their desktop or mobile browser.
• Share the live stream link with others.

Chats

Hosts, participants, and viewers can communicate in the chat.