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10 Mistakes to Avoid When Live Streaming an Event

Most live streams do not go wrong because of one big disaster. They go wrong because of a handful of small things nobody quite got round to. A microphone that was never tested. A slide too busy to read on screen. A WiFi connection that held up perfectly until three hundred people logged on at once!

Unless well planned and thought through, the same live streaming mistakes can come up again and again. None of them are complicated to fix, but all of them are far easier to sort before the day than during it. Here are ten common live streaming mistakes we see most often, and what we do to avoid them when we stream conferences, internal town halls or product launches.

How We Create Video Content for LED Video Walls

Video content has always had to adapt to the frame it’s shown in. First, it was 16:9 aspect ratio for television and web. Then vertical formats for social media, where content must be reframed to keep everything important in shot. Now LED video walls have taken that a step further, changing the way content needs to be planned, filmed and produced.

Ultimate Event Video Checklist for Conference Organisers

A well filmed conference session does not just capture a moment. It can become months of marketing content, from social clips and podcast trailers to case study footage and training material. But that is only an option if the filming is planned properly from the start, not bolted on as an afterthought once the brief is given.

If you are organising a conference and want your event video to work harder than a simple archive record of the day, there are a handful of decisions worth making early. Here is what we think about before we turn a camera on.