Interested in selling your upcoming YouTube webinar? You've come to the right place!

With Podia, you can monetize webinars hosted on YouTube, allowing you to share your expertise with your audience while generating revenue from it.

Selling a YouTube Live Webinar

Here's how to sell a YouTube Live webinar on Podia:

In the sidebar menu, click on Products.
From the Products page, click on "+ New Product".
On the next page, select Webinar among the available options. Give your webinar product a name, and click "Create product" to have it created.
Under the Live video section, select the YouTube Live option. Paste your YouTube Live share link in the corresponding field.

How do I get a YouTube Live share link?

First, create your live event on YouTube, either via your computer or through a webcam.

Once you've scheduled your stream, click "Share" and paste the available link on Podia.
Set a start time and an end time. These will help Podia determine when reminder emails should fire and when replays will be available to your customers.

These times/dates should reflect when your webinar starts and ends.
Next, you'll outline instructions for your customers. Instructions serve as a way to describe your webinar and provide any essential details or requirements, such as how to access the webinar, what preparations are needed, and more.

Instructions are shown on the webinar page once a customer has purchased the webinar.

You can also select which reminders you'd like to send customers for the webinar product you're creating.
Navigate to the other tabs in your product to set up pricing, access duration, availability, and other settings.
Once you're ready, click on Publish at the top right to publish your product!

Understanding the customer experience

Once your YouTube Live webinar product is published, your audience will be able to purchase it and sign up.

They’ll see all the instructions you’ve added, along with the webinar’s start and end times when accessing the product on their dashboard.

To watch the webinar, customers will click the embedded YouTube player shown on the page. They can click the player at any time to go to YouTube, but the livestream will only begin once you start it on YouTube.

Uploading a webinar recording file

After your YouTube Live webinar ends, the YouTube player will be accessible within your webinar product for anyone who wishes to watch it again.

Alternatively, if you prefer, you can download the replay video file from YouTube and upload it to Podia, which allows it to be hosted on Podia rather than YouTube.

If you upload a replay video to your webinar product, a video player with the recording will become available to your customers after the event ends, based on your chosen end time.

FAQs

Are recurring YouTube Live webinars supported?

No. Recurring webinars are not yet supported on Podia.

Webinar products are built for one-time use only.

If you would like to reuse a webinar, we recommend adding a link to an online course product instead.

Can I create paid and free webinars?

Yes, you can create both paid webinars, where you charge people to get access to the webinar, and free webinars to help build your audience.

You could share the unlisted YouTube link directly in the course contents as a membership post or email broadcast. If you want to "host" it on Podia, then go through the same process and hide the webinar page from your site.

Can I sell or give away the webinar AFTER it has already happened?

Yes, we store the YouTube Live recording, so people can continue to buy (or sign up for free) to see a recording of your webinar.

If you don't want to sell or give the recording away for free, you can close enrollment just like with other products.

How do comments on YouTube webinars work?

People can leave comments directly on Podia, or they can go to YouTube and comment there instead.

How to find your YouTube Live embed link?

If you're new to YouTube Live, the quickest way to get started is to schedule a live stream via webcam.

Once you've scheduled your stream, click "Share." A pop-up will appear with the link to your YouTube Live stream.

From here, you will need to restructure the code to make it compatible with Podia. You will need to create it in the following format: http://youtu.be/[uniquevideoID]

The unique video ID is the string of characters that appears after live/ in the share URL. It ends right before the ? in the URL.