We know live videos can be intimidating! Make sure you are prepared for your live stream. Make sure you have great lighting, strong internet connection, solid audio, and everything you need to have a successful stream! In order to share your live video, we'll have to set up Live Crossposting from your Facebook Page. Please use your artist page, not your personal page. 

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Live Crossposting allows you and Michigan Music Alliance to post videos on each other's behalf. Crossposting can only happen between Pages that have added each other. You'll have to make sure your page "likes" ours. You control which videos are eligible to be crossposted. When we crosspost your live video, we will also be able to view video insights for their posts. Only broadcasts created through the Live API (Publisher Tools and facebook.com/live/create) are eligible for Live crossposting. Broadcasts originating from mobile devices cannot be Live crossposted. You can read more about crossposting here. 

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You can schedule a Facebook Live video in Live Producer up to one week in advance. We are asking you do this and submit the info to use by March 21. Please use the verbiage at the end of this thread for the title and details. When you schedule a video, your audience will be notified immediately by an automated post announcing your upcoming broadcast. A second post containing the Live broadcast will be automatically published at the scheduled date and time.

 

Schedule a Live Video Broadcast

1. Go to Live Producer.

2. Select Schedule a Live Video in the left-hand column.

3. Choose the Date and Time of your live broadcast - please reference the official schedule HERE.

4. Set up the rest of your scheduled broadcast as you would when you Set Up a Live Video Post.

5. Select an image to accompany the announcement post. The use THIS IMAGE.

6. Click Schedule Live Video to schedule your broadcast.

 

Your Live video will begin automatically at scheduled start time. You must go Live within 10 minutes of the scheduled time or your video will be canceled. You can preview your stream 20 minutes before the scheduled start time. Soundcheck! To access your stream, select Edit Post in the Upcoming Live Videos tab to make sure your stream is properly set up before going Live.

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You can see and make changes to your upcoming scheduled videos within the Upcoming Live Videos tab. To manage your upcoming videos:

 

1. Select Upcoming Live Videos in the left-hand column.

2. Click Edit Post to make changes to your post. 

3. Click View Post to see your post in a new browser tab.

4. Click Go Live Now to go Live.

5. Click  to copy your Live video URL.

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As soon as you schedule your live broadcast, an announcement post is published to your Page letting your followers know there’s an upcoming broadcast. People who see the announcement post can click Get Reminder to receive a one-time reminder notification shortly before the broadcast begins.

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At the scheduled time of the live broadcast, a second post is automatically published containing your Facebook Live stream. People who expressed interest via the initial announcement post receive a notification directing them to the broadcast.

After the broadcast is complete, both posts remain on your Page, but the live broadcast post becomes a video post and will appear in your video library.

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Establish a Crossposting Relationship

 

Before crossposting a video, you'll need to establish a crossposting relationship with another Page. In order to create a crossposting relationship, you must be an Admin of your Page.

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To establish a crossposting relationship with another Page:

 

1. Click Settings at the top of your Page.

2. Click Crossposting in the left column.

3. Begin typing the Page's name or Facebook URL and select it from the list that appears.

4. For Live Videos, select whether you'd like to:

   • Allow the other Page to crosspost their live video to your Page without further approval.

   • Require the other Page's crossposted live videos to be approved by one of your admins or editors before being crossposted to your Page.

5. Click Next.

The other Page must confirm the crossposting relationship by adding your Page to its crossposting settings. To help the Page confirm the relationship, click and send the confirmation link to an admin of the Page using THIS FORM.

 

Allow MMA to Crosspost Your Page's Live Videos

You can allow our page to crosspost your Page's live video without the us needing to upload or share it directly. Only live videos created via the Live API are eligible for live crossposting, and live video from a mobile device can't be crossposted.

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Other than establishing a crossposting relationship with the other Page, your Page doesn't need to do anything to allow the other Page to crosspost your Page's live video.

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Instead, when the other Page establishes or confirms the crossposting relationship, it will need to decide whether to allow your Page to crosspost automatically or with approval from one of its admins or editors.

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If you are unable to go live from your page and invite us to crosspost, we can add you as an editor of our page as a back up. Please let us know via email (info@michiganmusicalliance.org) if you are unable to crosspost BEFORE March 19.