On your Channel's media page, select "Edit/Preview Channel" to customize and share your Channel!

In the "Global" section of your Channel's customization panel, you can set up your Channel Styles (including color, font, etc.) and select a preview image.

Click into "Channel Styles" to customize your Channel's colors, font, and content type.

Within the "Colors" section, you can choose whether you'd like a dark or light background, and select the button and player color.

To make your content more accessible, you can limit the spectrum of the color chart to high-contrast colors. You can learn more about accessibility here.

Choose from 25 different fonts to apply to your Channel’s title, description, and media names. Set the size of the text here as well.

Within the "Channel Styles" section, "Content Type Label" gives you the option to select the word that best describes your Channel content. You can choose from the following:

The preview image of your Channel is what appears when you share the link to social media, messaging apps, and other platforms. This defaults to the background image of your Channel.

Under "Advanced Options," you can add open graph meta tags for Channels embedded on your website.

The "Page Sections" part of the Channel customization panel is where you can set up a header for your Channel, add featured media, and customize how the body of the Channel appears.

Your Channel’s header contains the title and description, logo, alignment, background, and trailer. Select "Customize" from your Channel's media page, then click into the "Header" section to customize these components.

Upload a new image or video to display as your Channel background. If you’d prefer to use a video, you have the option of using a video from any folder in your Wistia account.

The background will default to the thumbnail (or cover image for an audio file) of the first media in the Channel. When uploading an image for your Channel background, the image will be resized for the size of the device or window it’s being viewed on.

Click to upload your desired background image or video, depending on what you selected in the "Background type" section.

The title and description will reflect what you've already set up, and serves as another spot to edit it.

If you'd like to add a link in the description of your Channel, you'll need to use HTML.

With a URL and text, this would look like the following.

You can select any video within your Wistia account to display as the trailer for your Channel. Click "Add video" to choose from videos within your account.

Once you’ve selected a trailer, a “Play Trailer” option will replace the “Play” button. You can also remove the trailer, or replace it.

Customize your Channel further by adding a logo. You can then adjust its size and can choose to replace your title with the logo.

Align your Channel’s title and description to the left or center of the header.

Opt for left-alignment to give your Channel a more “branded content” design, or center your text over the background of your Channel to draw your viewers to your title and description.

Showcase a trailer, new media, or your most popular content in the "Featured" section of your Channel. Select "Choose featured media" to choose a media to showcase between the header and body of your Channel. You can also switch this if needed.

Finally, give this section a custom title and choose whether you'd like to display the current media title and summary, or set up a new title and summary for the "Featured" section.

If you choose a media from your Channel to highlight in this section, it will still appear in your Channel. Featuring a video or podcast episode will not affect your RSS feed.

Here, you can customize the layout of your Channel, control whether you’d like to display transcripts for your media, and enable the search option.

You can choose amongst three different layout options for your Channel:

Each section of your Channel will reflect the layout design you’ve selected.

The order in which your media display in stems directly from your Channel's media page. You can further organize your media by creating sections.

When viewing a Channel, media will be organized by the sections you've created on the Channel media page.

Select if you'd like to remove transcripts from displaying within the Channel. Transcripts are enabled by default.

Channel search is enabled by default to allow viewers to search for media in your Channel.

In the "Add-Ons" section of your Channel's customization page, you can manage who has access to it, as well as set up an email subscription for to collect subscribers.

Click into "Access Control" to set up who has access to your Channel. It can be fully public and available to anyone, protected with a password, or only allow logged in users to view it.

Clicking the "Password" option will prompt you to add a password to your Channel, and show you a preview of the form. Click "Save" when you're all set. After saving the password, you'll see a banner on the preview page letting you know that the Channel is password-protected.

If you decided to select "Invited users," you'll also see a preview of how this appears.

The Add-Ons sections of your Channel’s Customize menu is where you can enable the option to collect email subscribers.

Enable this feature so your viewers can fill out a form (much like our Turnstiles) to receive email updates when you add new content to your Channel.

To add a subscribe form to a Channel, open the up the "Header Button and Form" section, and check off “Show Subscribe button.”

Once this option has been selected, a “Subscribe for updates” button will appear on your Channel. The following options can be configured for the form:

Want to find additional information on the Email Subscribers functionality? Head over to our Subscribers Page!