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Webinar Overview Page

Welcome to your webinar’s overview page!

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Written by Yooni Choi
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Your webinar at a glance

After creating a new webinar, you'll be redirected to the webinar overview page where you can see information about your webinar at a glance, and also access settings to update the title, date and time, customizations, audience and analytics, description, registration, and more.

Webinar overview page navigation

Starting with the top-left corner, clicking "Webinars" will take you back to a list of your scheduled and completed webinars.

The pencil icon allows you to update information about your webinar.

Customize

Click "Customize" to customize your event branding, registration page, event room, and more. For a detailed overview of our event customization options, please refer to our Customizing a Live Event documentation.

Audience

From the Overview page, clicking "Audience" will direct you to the Webinar Registrants page. Here, you can review, manage, import, and export Registrants. After the webinar has ended, you’ll also be able to see a heatmap for each registrant that attended your webinar.

Analytics

To see more aggregated registration performance and attendee engagement data, click the "Analytics" button on the Overview page. This will bring you to the Webinar Registration Analytics and Webinar Recap pages.

Simulcast

To stream your live webinar to other platforms simultaneously (using RTMP or our direct LinkedIn Live integration features), start by clicking "Simulcast" from the Overview page. For a full breakdown, visit our Simulcasting help page.

In the top-right corner, you can edit your event information, share your event, and more.

Ellipsis (“triple dots”) menu

Clicking on the ellipsis button will open up a menu to edit your webinar information, duplicate the webinar, add the webinar to a Channel, give product feedback, or to delete the webinar.

Edit event info

To learn about editing your event’s information, check out this section.

Duplicate event

To duplicate an event, open the ellipsis menu on your webinar’s overview page and select “Duplicate event”. This will create an exact copy of the webinar with the same date, time, and settings, but without any registration or analytics data as this will be a new scheduled webinar.

You’ll be directed to the duplicated webinar overview page, indicated by “[Copy of]” in the title. Making changes to either webinar from that point will not affect the other.

Add to Channel

You can promote your webinar and enable on-demand viewing by adding it to any new or existing Channel. Check out this article to learn more.

Give feedback

We always appreciate your feedback. You can also reach out to Support and submit a ticket.

Delete webinar

Alert

Deleting a webinar is permanent and cannot be undone.

To delete a webinar, expand the ellipsis menu at the top right of the event overview page and select “Delete event”.

You’ll be prompted to confirm or cancel your decision in the pop-up modal.

Deleting a webinar will remove it entirely from your account and any embedded locations. Any associated analytics will also be lost.

Share menu

Share event links

Click “Share event links" to send out Host, Panelist, and Audience links. Check out this article to learn more about webinar participants.

Click “Invite collaborators” to invite and manage collaborators for your webinar. Click here to learn more.

Join event room menu

From this menu, you can join your webinar as a Host, Panelist, or even experience what your audience sees! Head on over here to learn about different webinar participants.

Webinar thumbnail

All webinars will be given a default gradient graphic. To upload a custom thumbnail, click on “Replace.” This thumbnail will appear on the registration page, in any confirmation and reminder emails sent regarding your event, on the screen before your webinar is live, and when it ends.

Once uploaded, the options to replace or remove the thumbnail will appear above the image.

For screen reader accessibility, enter a short description of the image in the “Image alt text” field. Check out this page to learn more about accessibility.

Note

The image must be a 1280 x 720px PNG or JPG file.

Edit event information

You can edit basic information and settings about your webinar by clicking on the pencil icon in the top-left corner, the “Edit event info” option in the ellipsis menu, or any “Edit” buttons in the right-hand panel.

The event info modal contains two tabs: Details and Settings.

Details

The Event Info modal will open to the Details tab by default. From here, you can edit multiple pieces of information:

  • Title: 255 character max limit

  • Date and Time

  • Time zone

  • Approximate duration (this will not restrict the actual duration of your webinar; it will affect the length of the calendar invites sent from confirmation emails in your registrants’ calendars)

  • Description

Generate description

Clicking on “Generate description” opens a feature that allows you to provide a brief summary of your webinar, choose a brand voice, and receive an AI-generated description to use in the description field!

Settings

In the Settings tab of the Event Info modal, you can select an event type from the following:

  • Live event: Host and present the event from the Wistia page in your browser. This is the default setting for all Live events.

  • Pre-recorded event: Stream an existing video within the event room. See: Pre-Recorded Live Events

  • External studio: Stream your event from other advanced streaming tools like OBS. See: RTMP Ingest for Live

Event type

You have options to create the exact experience you want for your webinar.

  • Live event: This is the most common type of webinar. Your livestream will be conducted live directly from your browser.

  • Pre-recorded event: This type of event starts and ends on its own, using a single media from your content library. You can repurpose older webinar content this way, or even stream to audiences when you’re asleep! To learn more, click here.

  • External studio: For the more advanced users who want to stream directly from OBS or another encoder via RTMP, you can use this feature. You’ll still have access to all the webinar features. To learn more, click here.

Media destination

Select a destination folder for your event recording next to “Media destination.” Your event recording will be saved to the selected folder once the event has ended.

On demand viewing

Toggle the "On demand viewing" option on to allow viewers to access the recording after the event has ended, or off to prevent the recording from being accessed.

If registration is enabled, viewers will be prompted to register for the event to access the recording if they have not already registered.

Registration

Note

Once you select a Wistia or marketing platform registration form, you cannot reverse your decision.

This option allows you to turn registration on or off for your webinar. Refer to our Live Event Registrants Page overview for a detailed breakdown of registration options.

Audience engagement tools

Chat, Q&A, and polls can be enabled or disabled in this modal. You can also change your selections at any time in the event room. Check out this page to learn more about webinar audience interactions.

When you're all set, click “Save” to finalize your selections.

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