Embed your event on your website

This feature requires an Advanced or Premium plan, or an Enterprise account with the Events feature enabled.

When you stream an event on Vimeo, you can embed the live video player and viewer engagement tools onto your website, allowing your audience to watch and participate in your event directly on your site rather than only on Vimeo.com. 

In this article:

• How to embed your event and engagement tools
• How to access your event's full-page engagement tools
• Hide your live viewer count
• Hide Live label on your events
• Embed Customization for recurring events
• My website editor has a video widget, can I use that?

How to embed your event and engagement tools

1. First, create your event from the library.
2. Customize your embed settings by selecting Embed on the top right corner of the Live settings page.
   
3. Here, you can choose whether you’d like to embed the video player and engagement tools together with the selection of Player and engagement tools. If you want to embed player and engagement tools separately:
   • Select Player only to copy the video player embed.
   • Select Engagement tools only, to copy the engagement tools to be embedded.
4. By default, the embedded player will be Responsive, where the player will adjust based on the container size. If you would like it to be Fixed, toggle on Set custom dimensions to enter the exact pixel size for the player. 
5. Finally, you can choose where the event can be embedded and add custom domains if necessary.
6. You can then copy the iframe code to your clipboard and paste it into your website’s HTML editor.
7. The event will appear on your site.
8. When you start your stream, the player will automatically load. When you stop your stream, the player will indicate that the event will be saved to your Library.

How to access your event's full-page engagement tools

You can access a full-page version of your event's engagement tools (chat, polls, Q&A). To do so: 

1. On the event settings page, select the Embed button.
2. At the bottom of the modal, select Copy Link next to Full-page engagement tools link.
   
3. This will link to a full webpage of the engagement tools to viewers or moderators. This is helpful if you want someone on your team to solely focus on managing and moderating chat, polls, and Q&A.

Hide your live viewer count

In order to hide your live viewer count for your embedded live streams, 

1. Go to your event’s settings page.
2. Select the Player tab > Customize Player.
3. Scroll down to the Customization option.
4. Select Hide Viewer Count. 

This setting will turn off the live viewer count for all future embedded live streams for that event.

If the state of the toggle changes for a specific recurring live event, then each new live stream will inherit this setup and this live event won’t respect the setting in account settings anymore.

Hide Live label on your events

While live-streaming your event, you can select to hide/display the Live label on the players of your live events. 

1. Go to your event’s settings page.
2. Select the PlayerAppearance tab > Customize Player.
3. Scroll down to the Customization option.
4. Select Hide Live label from the Customization player menu.
   

Note: Broadcasters will have to turn off the live label in order to hide it on their live events, as the live label appears on all live events by default.

Embed Customization for recurring events

Here are the features of the recurring Event:

• Show recurring schedule - a lower-left corner overlay that displays the next time the event will be live.
• Show event schedule - Choose whether or not to display the date and time of the upcoming event along with the default "This event has not started yet" message within the player. 
• Show the latest video when off-air - Instead of displaying the next start date, the player will show a thumbnail and play button for the last stream on this event.
• Show playlist - an upper-right corner overlay that allows for navigating between all videos on this event. When enabled, this will override displaying the event title.
• Autoplay - when watching a video in the playlist, the following video will start playing as soon as the current video ends.
• Loop playlist - when the last video in the playlist ends, the first video in the playlist will automatically begin.
• Play bar - display the play bar, which shows the elapsed time of the event. Some other elements cannot be displayed if this is disabled.
• Volume control - allows the viewer to adjust player volume (requires play bar).
• Fullscreen button - allows viewers to watch in fullscreen mode.
• Your details (Portrait, Title, Byline, Let users decide) - This information is pulled from your Vimeo account and can overlay the upper left corner. Title only; when enabled, this will override displaying the playlist.
• Customization (Customize color, Show Vimeo logo, Display Custom logo) - Displaying any logo requires the play bar to be enabled. Custom logos can be hidden during live playback and linked to a website.
  ⚠️Note: Customizable contact forms and all end screens are available to all archived events

My website editor has a video widget, can I use that?

Some website hosting services such as WordPress or Church Online includes tools and plugins to help simplify adding content to your website, such as a video widget that allows you to paste the URL of your video or event and automatically embeds it in the body of your site.

This currently cannot be done for recurring live events. If you need to embed your recurring live event, we recommend using an HTML block and pasting the iframe embed code from your recurring event as described above.