Launch your first community: your owned-and-operated space

Screen. Publish your community: the first community is created from your brand context, with a starter feed and settings you review.

When you finish, your content hub is live on its own address, your first community is public, and you own the space: the audience relationship, the data, and every feed that leaves it. Your part takes about 5 minutes.

Before you begin

Content classified and the hub previewed (see Upload your videos or connect your social profile).

What Octo does

Octo runs the launch checklist (brand kit, at least one group, enough videos to rank, guidelines, privacy link) and fixes what it can: it drafts the community guidelines from your brand context and proposes the privacy link it found on your site.
Octo proposes where the hub lives: your Genuin address, a verified domain, or both, and generates the embed snippet for any page on your existing site where a feed should appear (hub or single feed, any player type Vertical Video Player Placement, Horizontal Video Player Placement, Audio + Video Dynamic Player, Keywords Player).
Octo opens a pull request or a CMS change with the snippet where you have connected a repository or CMS; otherwise it hands the snippet to your Developer with the exact page.

What you approve

The address and the guidelines. Edit either inline.
The embed placements (which pages, which feeds). Approve, or move them.
Choose Approve and launch. The hub goes public, the community becomes visible, your live key is issued, and your network is listed for distribution. Octo sends the first engagement report the next morning (see Measure engagement: watch time, lift, and cohorts).

Make Octo smarter

Connect your repository or CMS (Settings → Developers → Connections); Octo ships embeds, SDK updates, and snippet fixes as changes you approve, instead of instructions you follow.

Need help? Octo is available 24/7 in BCC and on every page of these docs. Ask it in plain language; when the answer needs a person, Octo brings the right account manager, developer, or Ops engineer into the same thread and stays on it until it is solved. Every Business Account owner has this, on every plan (see 24/7 Octo-enabled support: how Octo brings in account managers, developers, and Ops).

What you get

A live content hub and community at an address you control.
Viewers who follow, watch, and (once auto login is on in Bring your audience in with auto login and SSO) are recognized across every placement.
The first engagement report the next morning (see Measure engagement: watch time, lift, and cohorts).