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Add videos and put them in order.
Search your library from the channel editor, or tick a channel under Add to channel on any video. Drag to reorder, and star the one that plays first.
Private video channels: One page for a whole series.
A channel is a branded page that plays a set of your videos in the order you choose, at an address you name. Keep it public, or make it private: you invite viewers by email, they sign in, and you see who has watched what. Creator and up.
How video channels work
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Name it and make it yours.
Pick a Channel URL name for its address, then add a description, your logo, your colors, a button and your links.
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Open it, or invite people in.
A public channel plays for anyone with the link. A private one plays only for the people you invite, after they sign in.
The address is play.stillhaven.io/c/ followed by your URL name: 3 to 32 lowercase letters, numbers and hyphens, unique across Stillhaven. Change it later and the channel moves, and links to the old address stop working.
Private video channels: invite viewers by email
Invite by email
Set Visibility to Private, enter an address under Viewers and press Invite. The email goes out at once with a link to set a password, good for seven days. The viewer shows as Invited, then Active.
Password or a sign-in link
Anyone who opens the channel signed out sees a Sign in to watch page with your logo. Viewers sign in with their password, or press Email me a link for a one-time link that lasts two hours. A sign-in lasts thirty days on that browser.
See who watched what
The Progress card lists each viewer, most recently active first, with videos watched and finished and when they last watched. Lessons opens one viewer's row video by video. Watched means three quarters; finished means the end.
Take access away
Press × beside a viewer and their sign-in stops working. Viewers belong to one channel, take no team seat, and never see the console.
A private channel keeps its preview quiet too: a link pasted into a chat or a post shows the title and that the channel is private, with no image.
A branded video playlist page
Your logo and colors
A logo top right (PNG, JPG, WebP or SVG up to 2 MB), Custom bar colors for the bar and its text, and a Custom player color for the play button across every video in the channel. If the bar colors are too close to read, they are dropped on save and you are told.
Words, a button and your links
A Description beside the video, a call-to-action button such as "Book a call", your website and up to six social links. Your company name sits in the footer and in invite emails.
Files to download
Slides, a workbook, a zip of resources: attachments sit under a Downloads menu on the channel page, up to 500 MB a file, and count toward your storage. Private viewers download them after signing in. Studio and up.
No Stillhaven badge
The footer carries a small Hosted on Stillhaven mark until you tick Hide the Stillhaven badge in Branding settings. Every plan with channels can turn it off.
The editor
Reorder videos in a channel
Videos, basics, description, branding and links save together when you press Save channel. Attachments and viewer invites save the moment you add them. Only videos that have finished processing can be added, and taking one out of a channel leaves it in your library.
A long channel loads its list a page at a time as viewers scroll, so a series of dozens of videos does not load them all at once. Private viewers see Up next and a Previously watched row that follows them between devices; on a public channel that row lives in the viewer's own browser.
Add and remove viewers from your CRM
When a contact buys, joins or is tagged in your CRM, the CRM can add them to a private channel, and take them off again when that changes. Each channel's CRM integration card shows a Grant URL and a Revoke URL. Have one automation post to each with two fields: email, the contact's address, and secret, an API key with channels:write.
Your CRMTag added
Grant URL
StillhavenPrivate channelViewer added
Invite email
ViewerSets a password and watches
Remove the tag, and the Revoke URL takes them off.
It works with HubSpot, Ontraport, Zapier, and anything else that can send a webhook. ActiveCampaign sends the whole contact, so the key goes in a contact custom field instead. A granted viewer gets the same email as a hand-made invite, and granting someone already invited changes nothing. For your own code, the REST API adds and removes channel viewers too. Studio and up; on Creator, you invite viewers from the channel's Viewers card.
What people use channels for
A client portal
One private channel per client with their deliverables in order, your logo on the page, and the files they need under Downloads. Revoke access when the job is done.
An event series
Every talk from a conference or every night of a run, in programme order, on a public page you can send to everyone who was there and everyone who was not.
Internal training
Onboarding or how-to videos for a team, private, with each person's progress on one card so you can see who has finished.
Courses and members
Lessons in order behind a sign-in, with your CRM opening and closing the door. Read more on video hosting for course creators.
Which plans have channels
Public and private channels, invites from the console, per-viewer progress, your logo and colors, and badge removal: Creator and up. Attachments and granting viewers from a CRM: Studio and up. Solo has no channels. Channels are managed by admins. See every plan side by side or pricing.
Plays in a channel count in each video's analytics, alongside its embeds and share page. Deleting a channel is immediate and there is no trash for channels, but the videos in it are not touched.
What it is not
A channel is a page on play.stillhaven.io, not your own domain, and it is not an embeddable playlist: you embed videos one at a time. It does not take payments, so if you sell access, your checkout or CRM does that and the CRM integration lets people in. A private channel does not make its videos private elsewhere; each video's share page is its own setting, and you can turn it off or put a password on it. Progress is tracked per person only on private channels, where each viewer signs in.
For how channels sit beside other platforms' showcases, see Stillhaven vs Livid and Stillhaven vs FrameRate.
Questions people ask
What is a channel in Stillhaven?
A branded page that plays a set of your videos in the order you choose, at play.stillhaven.io/c/ and a name you pick. Viewers watch one video and pick the next from the list beside it. Channels are on Creator and up.
How do viewers sign in to a private channel?
You invite them by email. The invite has a link to set a password, good for seven days. After that they sign in at the channel with their email and password, or ask for a one-time sign-in link by email. They stay signed in on that browser for thirty days.
Can I see who has watched which video?
Yes, on a private channel. The Progress card lists each viewer with how many videos they have watched and finished, and when they last watched, and Lessons shows how far they got in each video. A video counts as watched at three quarters. On a public channel plays count in each video's analytics, but not per person.
Can my CRM add and remove viewers?
Yes, on Studio and up. Each channel has a Grant URL and a Revoke URL. Point HubSpot, Ontraport, ActiveCampaign, Zapier or any tool that sends a webhook at them with the contact's email and an API key. There is also a REST endpoint for your own code.
Do viewers need a Stillhaven account or a team seat?
No. A channel viewer has a sign-in for that channel only. It is not a team seat and it does not open the console.
If a video is in a private channel, is it private everywhere?
No. The channel is private; each video's share page is its own setting. Turn the share page off and the video plays only in your embeds, your channels and expiring links.
What happens to my channels if I move to a plan without them?
The channel pages stop showing and say so. Nothing is deleted, and they come back as they were when you move to Creator or up.
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