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
- First, create your event from the library.
- Customize your embed settings by selecting Embed on the top right corner of the Live settings page.
- 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.
- 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.
- Finally, you can choose where the event can be embedded and add custom domains if necessary.
- You can then copy the iframe code to your clipboard and paste it into your website’s HTML editor.
- The event will appear on your site.
- 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.
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.
While these often work well for videos, they generally do not work well for recurring events. If you need to embed your recurring live event, we recommend using the hosting service’s provided HTML block and pasting the iframe embed code from your recurring event as described above.