When it's time for your webinar, you can join the event room from the Overview page, the Registrants page, or the Event Analytics page. Click “Join event room,” then "Join as host."

Wistia webinars support multiple hosts, so you can collaborate with your co-hosts to moderate chat, bring people on and off stage, and change layouts for a seamless experience.

If you’re a panelist or audience member, click the link you’ve received to join. You can also join the event by clicking the "Join event room" dropdown. From here, you can "Join as panelist" or "View as audience" as well. Check out this page to learn more about different webinar roles and permissions.

If you’re the host or a panelist, when you click to join, enter your Display Name, and be sure to select your preferred Camera, Microphone, and Speakers.

You can also choose whether or not you’d like to blur your camera background, use a virtual background, or join with your microphone muted or your camera off.

Be sure to check off that you consent to being recorded as well.

Once done, click to join the event. Lastly, this page also tells you how strong your network connection is. If your network connection is poor and requires troubleshooting, head on over to our webinar troubleshooting guide.

Once you’ve entered the webinar page, you’ll see a number of options here.

When you’re ready to get started, click “Go Live” and then confirm your selection in the pop-up. You’ll see a 3-second countdown.

When a panelist joins, they’ll automatically be off-stage. Only hosts can click on other hosts and panelists to bring them on-stage. Hosts can always add or remove themselves from the stage.

You can also choose when to mute a presenter, pin them to the presenter position, or take them off-stage.

There are a number of options on the page for you to adjust your event as needed.

The audio setting (or, the Microphone button) can be used to mute or unmute your microphone. Expanding this setting will allow you to change your microphone (input) and your speaker (output), as well as toggle the following features:

*These settings are on by default–you can disable these if you’d like.

The video setting (the camera button) will turn your webcam on or off. When you expand this setting, you can change your camera source or select your webcam background.

If a host or panelist's video is off while they're on stage, a round icon with their first initial will display. The icon will mimic the brand colors for the webinar. If you are on stage, you are audible to the audience.

When clicking the Share button (or, Monitor icon) to share your screen, you’ll be prompted to select a tab, window, or your entire screen.

If you need to share audio as well, be sure to select a specific tab under “Chrome Tab,” and that “Share tab audio” is toggled on.

Hosts can use Layouts to choose how the webinar stage appears for your audience. The presenter or screenshare added to the stage will be the main display, and you can choose to have your panelists shown in different positions. The options available are Tile, Overlay, or Spotlight.

Clicking the Stage button will maximize or minimize your view of the stage. When the stage is maximized, the side panels and backstage view will be hidden. You can reverse this by clicking the button again.

Click the "Audience chat" button to collapse or expand the chat window.

To learn more about chatting with your audience, head over the webinar Chat page.

If an attendee's contributions to the chat need to be removed, you can silence them so that their chat bubbles are hidden for all participants. Learn more about how to silence attendees here.

Looking for more ways to engage with the audience? Head to our Live Polls and Q&A page to learn more.

Hosts and panelists can chat with one another (privately) in the “Private chat" tab.

Click the Private chat icon to view and interact with private messages. Click the Private chat icon again to collapse the chat window.

Click "Present" to add videos or slides to show during your webinar. Head to the Present Media page to learn more.

Hosts can use External links to display a button on stage during the webinar. To learn more about setting up an external link, check out this page.

Settings put you in control of how the audience can engage with your event.

As a host, by clicking the settings icon, you can change your display name or decide whether name tags for the hosts and panelists appear to the audience. You can also activate or deactivate the chat, Q&A, and polls.

As a panelist, the settings icon is where you’ll be able to change your display name.

For Hosts, the Support icon is the quickest way to search our Help documentation or get in touch with our amazing support team during your event. This can be found under the Settings tab.

As a host or panelist, you can see the strength of your network connection within the event room. Open up this modal by clicking the network symbol.

Here, you'll see tips on how to have a strong connection and, if you have a weak connection, recommendations on how to improve it. Head on over to this page for our full webinar troubleshooting guide.

If you’re a host, the “Invite” button will open the Invite link modal with event invite links for fellow hosts, panelists, or the audience.

If you’re a panelist, the Invite button will only copy the Audience Link to your clipboard.

Check out this page to learn more about different webinar roles and permissions.

When sharing the audience link, you can also add tracking to collect more analytics about your attendees. Head to the Media Analytics Overview page to learn about Campaigns, Sources, and Mediums.

When the event is over, click “End event" and then confirm your selection.

After the event ends, you'll see how many attendee chats, questions, and poll responses you received during the event. You can also download this information to a CSV file.

From here, you can go directly to your event's analytics by clicking "View Analytics" or view the recording by selecting "View Media" when it is done processing.

Your recording functions just like a regular media in Wistia, but with a couple of additional options. Head on over here to learn more.