Live Events Replays: Best Practices

Last updated October 16, 2026

A replay gives a live event a second life. It keeps earning, keeps reaching new members, and sits in your library alongside your other content. The sessions that make the best replays are the ones hosted with that in mind from the start.

You decide after the event whether to publish the replay, and whether it is free or premium. Paid live events are the exception: they always become paid replays, and that is set when you create the event.

For how replays work mechanically, see the Replays FAQ.

Decide before you go live

The choice comes after the event, but try to make the decision before. A session hosted with a replay in mind is a far better replay than one you decide to publish as an afterthought.

If you intend to publish, host accordingly

• Watch your timing. Open promptly. A replay that starts with six minutes of waiting for people to arrive while rambling loses viewers before the teaching begins. You can still engage with your live audience, but be mindful of when you're doing so, and try to time-box when appropriate.
• Speak to both audiences. Welcome the people watching later, not just the ones in the room. Avoid "good morning everyone" or anything that ties the session to one moment.
• Read questions aloud before you answer them. Make it as simple as possible for everyone watching the event.
• Be deliberate about comment time. Decide in advance roughly how long you will spend on live interaction versus teaching. Long stretches of responding to individual names are flat to watch back, especially at the beginning of sessions.
• Deliver the core teaching in full. Do not rely on the live exchange to carry the session.

Replays are reviewed before they publish

Submitting a replay is not the same as publishing one. Our team reviews every replay the same way we review a video. Once it meets our requirements we publish it and you will receive confirmation. Publication is not guaranteed.

Common reasons a replay is not published

• Poor audio. Echo, background noise, a microphone that cuts out, volume that swings between quiet and loud
• Poor video. Bad lighting, a frozen or pixelated stream, the teacher out of frame
• Technical failure during the session. Dropouts, long silences, a stream that cuts off before the end
• Significant dead air, including a long wait before the session starts
• Content that does not match the title, description or trailer
• Promotion of off-platform offerings, or anything that breaches our content guidelines
• A session too specific to the moment to hold up on demand

If a replay is not approved, we will tell you why. In most cases the fix is in how the next live event is hosted rather than in the recording itself.

Free or premium

This is your call, and it works exactly like your videos. A free replay is monetised the same way your free content is. A premium replay is monetised the same way your premium content is. Nothing new to learn.

One thing to know: we hold premium replays to a slightly higher production standard. If a member is paying to watch, the audio, video and pacing need to carry it. A replay that would publish fine as free may not be approved as premium.

A rough guide

Revisit your title, description and trailer

What worked as an invitation to a live event may not work the same as a listing for a replay. Before you submit, go back through all three with two questions in mind.

Is it evergreen?

Strip anything tied to the date. "Join me this Sunday" and "our October circle" date the replay immediately. Write as though someone is finding it six months from now, because they will be.

Is it accurate?

Live sessions drift. If you planned 45 minutes on breathwork and spent most of it on sleep, the description needs to say so. A member who arrives expecting one thing and gets another will leave, and we will not publish a replay whose listing does not match what is in it.

Worth checking

• Remove dates, days of the week and references to the live session being upcoming
• Update the description to reflect what you actually covered, in the order you covered it
• Check the trailer still represents the session. If the event went somewhere else, the trailer needs to change
• Make the takeaway clear in the first line, since that is what members read before they tap

Be mindful of what is in the chat

The chat is part of what gets published. Members often share openly in a live session, and what felt safe in a room of 30 people reads differently as a permanent listing anyone can find.

Stay aware of the conversation as you host. If someone shares something personal, difficult or identifying, notice it in the moment.

If you want to protect that openness, say so at the start of the session: tell people whether you intend to publish, so they can decide what to share.