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Our 3,000 live attendees add-on is out of beta! If you have a Livestorm enterprise account - an account with 5 licenses or more - you can now upgrade to accommodate up to 3,000 live attendees. This means you can host bigger events to reach more people at once!

• Already have an enterprise account? Simply contact your dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM) or message the team at csm@livestorm.co to purchase this add-on!

• Want to upgrade from premium to enterprise? We invite you to contact sales@livestorm.co to level up your Livestorm account!

👉 For more information on plans and pricing, check out this article in our Help Center.

Improvement

Following our update in May, we heard that you wanted more than 12 speakers. That said, we are pleased to announce that the number of participants allowed to speak simultaneously has increased from 12 to 16 for Events! You will find this particularly useful if you're hosting a larger panel discussion, brainstorming session, team meeting, or interactive presentation.

With all these speakers, make sure you set your speaking permissions to best suit your use case. This can be done in two ways:

• Under the "Speaking permissions" heading when you create a new event
• Under the Event General Settings if your event has already been created

👉 If you need help with inviting people to speak, you can also check out this article from our Help Center! Note that this update does not apply to Instant Meetings.

Improvement

Do you need to share videos or heavy PDFs with your audience? Good news, we’ve increased the media sharing limit from 2GB to 4GB for PDF and MP4.

You can now share files with your audience in top quality!

👉 To see how to share files on Livestorm, simply check out this article.

Improvement

To give your registrants the most seamless process possible, we've revamped the light registration page to make it even lighter! From now on, a registrant will be asked only for their email address upon signing up (i.e. if they're new to your event) or signing in (i.e. if they're already registered). This simplified workflow applies to everyone, whether you're a team member, guest speaker, or attendee.

Additional details or fields will then be displayed only as needed:

• Team members will be asked to log in to their Livestorm account.
• New attendees will be asked to fill out their name and select an avatar (optional).
• Registered attendees will be asked if they want the access link resent to them.

Sunsetting

As it turned out, not all change is good. Following the release of our "pinned" streams feature, many of you have expressed concerns over how this has affected the layout of your streams, especially as it pertains to the replays. We thank you for your valuable feedback and, after careful consideration, have decided to sunset the "pinned" streams feature. This means that the layout of your streams will go back to being controlled the former way that you know best.

The upside to this experience is that it gave us a lot of insight on how we can roll out layout management in the future. For that, you will just have to stay tuned! 🚀

Feature

Need help keeping your video traffic to a specific region for data privacy reasons? Our team is pleased to announce the ability to set your server locations (auto, EU, and US) for your video traffic!

For example, you can select the EU-based video server option to ensure that all the video traffic for your events gets processed by servers located in Europe only. Don't worry, anyone located outside this region would still be able to access the video streams.

👉 For more information, check out this Help Center article. Note that this feature is currently available for all Livestorm enterprise customers only. To upgrade your account, we invite you to contact our sales team at sales@livestorm.co!

Feature

"We can't hear you, you're on mute!" If this sounds familiar to you, then this new feature will definitely come in handy. Our platform will now detect when you're speaking while muted and display a message to remind you!

Feature

Have you ever had a team member resize or close your stream during an event without even realizing it? This can now be prevented with the ability to "pin" streams, which can be done by team members and guest speakers during events!

👉 Here's how it works if you're a team member or guest speaker:

• Pinning a stream will keep it maximized and locked for everyone, meaning that attendees will not be able to change their own layout.
• Not pinning or unpinning a stream will unlock the ability for attendees to change their layout, which will only be visible to them.
• A stream with media or screen sharing will pin itself automatically (and replace a stream that may have been previously pinned).

For more information on this, check out this Help Center article!

Feature

Do you have a Livestorm enterprise account? If so, you might be interested to know that you can now activate SAML-based SSO on your workspace!

Wait, SAM-what? SAML SSO, which stands for Security Assertion Markup Language Single Sign-On, is an efficient and secure way for your organization to manage your team’s access to third-party platforms like Livestorm. Often recommended by IT departments, it allows you and your team members to log on to all your SSO-enabled accounts with just one email and one password.

👉 Our SSO feature can be activated on all SAML 2.0-compatible identity providers (IdPs) including Microsoft Azure Directory, Okta, and OneLogin. It's also readily available if you have 10 or more Livestorm licenses by contacting your dedicated Customer Success Manager (CSM)! For more information, check out this article in our Help Center.

Improvement

Following the announcement of our blurred and virtual backgrounds, we're pleased to share that you can now upload your own image to customize your background! We get it, customization is everything. Therefore, whether you need a change of (virtual) scenery or just want to maintain your privacy, you can now do it according to your personal style.

👉 To upload your own image, simply enter your event room, click on the virtual backgrounds button, then click on the + sign to choose from a file on your computer! For more information on blurred and virtual backgrounds, check out this Help Center article.