Live & Q&A Placement
A scheduled live player with questions, polls, and replay, hosted by a creator with the Host tier; sessions become Shorts clips automatically.
The Live & Q&A player runs a scheduled session inside your page. Viewers ask questions and answer polls while it's live, and watch the replay after it ends. Studio then turns the session into Shorts clips automatically.
This capability arrives as a proposal when your network needs it, filled in from your brand context, and goes live when you confirm it. It's part of Onsite, and Player experiences compares Live & Q&A with the other experiences.
When to use it
Use it for product drops, AMAs, events, launches, and recurring shows. When Genuin drafts your grid, it assigns Live & Q&A to event and talent pages.
| Page type | Recommended setup |
|---|---|
| Event page | Live & Q&A, opening that event's session |
| Talent page | Live & Q&A |
| Member or fan area | Live & Q&A with the Community Wall |
How it works
- A creator with the Host tier presents. Hosts can go live, pin, feature, and answer Q&A, as Creator programs and Quests describes.
- You schedule sessions under Communities > Live. An event page can open one specific session.
- During the session, viewers send questions and answer polls. After it ends, the replay stays available for as long as your retention setting allows.
- Live-to-Clips turns each session into Shorts clips after it ends, with the best questions as hooks. You approve the clips, or let them publish automatically.
- The clips play like any other Shorts, for example in the Vertical Video Player.
Set it up
Octo proposes the placement with these steps already done. You review the result and confirm it.
- Allow the Live & Q&A experience on the placement. Learn how in Pick your first player experience.
- Give the presenter the Host tier, and schedule the session under Communities > Live. Learn how in Invite creators, hosts, and contributors.
- On an event page, point the placement at a specific session, so the page opens that one.
Settings
| Setting | What it controls |
|---|---|
| Experience | Live & Q&A |
| Session | The specific session an event page opens |
| Replay retention | How long the replay stays available |
| Clip generation | How Studio generates clips from the session |
| Clip count per session | How many clips Studio cuts from one session |
| Approval mode | Approve each clip, or auto-approve |
Set replay retention and clip generation under Studio. Live-to-Clips covers the clip count and approval mode.
What it reports
Reports > Engagement shows these measures, filterable by experience. Measure engagement explains how engagement is counted.
- Concurrent viewers: viewers watching the session at the same time.
- Questions and poll responses: what viewers sent during the session.
- Replay views: views of the session after it ends.
- Clips generated: the clips cut from each session, with their engagement.
Add it to your site
The Web SDK renders this placement today. Embed the Genuin Web SDK on your website covers loading the script, and Add a Genuin placement to your website covers the placement and style IDs. Customize the Genuin video player sets sizes, tile layouts, and the profile menu.
Create a community creates a community from your own systems, with its type, access settings, and first members.
The placement and community post calls in the Business Account API are proposed, not live. Live API today and the Business Account API roadmap maps what you can call now to what's planned.
