The public chat is where hosts, producers, and guests can interact with audience members and livestream viewers. You can also reply in the chat panel and highlight selected comments.
You can use public chat when hosting a webinar, live streaming, or using an audience public access link.
Use case |
What public chat supports |
Plan availability |
|---|---|---|
| Webinar | Real-time audience chat, polls and Q&A. | Webinar and Business |
| Live streaming | Omnichat. Omnichat brings messages from supported live stream platforms into the Riverside public chat so hosts, producers, and guests can see and reply to messages from viewers in one place. | Live, Webinar and Business |
| Audience public access link | Real-time audience chat. | All plans |
Before the session
During the session: Read, reply, and highlight messages
After the session: Download the chat
Good to know
- While messages in the studio chat are visible only to the host, producers, and guests, public chat lets you send and read messages from audience members and livestream viewers in real time.
- You cannot see messages shared before you joined the studio.