How to simulcast my ZenVideo event to Linkedin

This feature requires an Advanced or Premium plan, or an Enterprise plan with the Events feature added.

You can simulcast your events from ZenVideo to a LinkedIn profile or LinkedIn page, including scheduled events on LinkedIn. This article will walk through the requirements and steps for connecting to LinkedIn so that you can stream your ZenVideo event to your LinkedIn audience.

Requirements for simulcasting to LinkedIn

• You must be the ZenVideo account owner to set up the initial connection from ZenVideo to LinkedIn. After the connection is made, a ZenVideo account admin or contributor plus can configure any event on the ZenVideo account to simulcast to that LinkedIn destination.
• If you want to stream to a company Page on LinkedIn, you must connect to the LinkedIn account of that page’s administrator.
• LinkedIn requires that you meet their Live Video Access Criteria to stream to LinkedIn.
• The use existing LinkedIn event option is available when the start time of the scheduled LinkedIn event is at least one hour from the current time.

Set up LinkedIn as a streaming destination

To connect your ZenVideo account to LinkedIn and add it as a streaming destination:

1. Create or navigate to your live event.
2. In the top of the production tool, select the Settings gearwheel
3. Open the Destinations panel.
4. Select Connect next to LinkedIn.
   
5. Log in to your LinkedIn account if necessary, and choose if you want to connect as a Member (to your own profile) or as an Admin (to your company page).
6. Follow the onscreen prompts and allow the requested permissions to connect your ZenVideo and LinkedIn accounts. Once connected, return to the event settings page on ZenVideo.
7. If you want to schedule the stream on LinkedIn so that your audience knows when you will go live, toggle on Schedule and set a start time and date for your event. Select Save.
8. Ensure the toggle switch next to your preferred LinkedIn destination is on.
9. When you’re ready, go live on ZenVideo. Once live, your stream will automatically simulcast to LinkedIn (allow 20-30 seconds for the stream to appear). If you created or selected a scheduled event, the stream will appear in that event's post.