Allow viewers to leave a reply on your video sharing page

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Brendan O'Driscoll
Who Can Use This Feature?
Self-Service Plans
Free Pro Plus
Business Plans
Essentials Growth Enterprise
On Business plans, users must have the Edit Sharing Pages permission enabled

The Replies setting allows you to add a public comments section beneath the video on your sharing page. This is a great way to open up conversation between you and your viewers.

Use Replies to encourage and set up additional 1-on-1 conversations, or as a way to gather collaborative feedback from your team about an ongoing project. The Replies comment section on a sharing page

Enable Replies on your sharing page

Select a tab to learn more:
  1. Select the Theme button from the menu on the left-hand side
  2. Select Customize to edit your sharing page designCustomizing your sharing page settings in Vidyard Pro
  3. Open the Video Details menu, then toggle Allow Replies to ON
    Please note: Replies will be automatically hidden from the sharing page if you change a video's access settings to Password Protected.
    Enabling the Replies setting in Vidyard Pro
Additional Requirements: to enable Replies, you must belong to a Team with the Edit Branded Sharing Pages permission enabled
  1. Select Channels > Sharing Page from menu on the left-hand side
    • If needed, use the Change Folder button to switch into the folder associated with the sharing page that you want to edit.
  2. Select Edit to customize your sharing pageEditing your sharing page setting in a Vidyard Teams, Business or Enterprise account
  3. Under the Settings tab, select Design
  4. Toggle Allow Replies to ON
    Please note: If you change a video's settings to restrict viewer access (i.e. add a password, IP restriction or secure with SSO), Replies will automatically be hidden from the sharing page.
    Enabling the Replies setting

How viewers leave a reply

Once enabled, the Replies section will appear below the video on your sharing page. Viewers can leave a reply in 2 different ways:

  1. Sign in to their Vidyard account and leave a reply (this automatically includes their profile name with the comment).

    Note: viewers may only sign in to their account if your sharing page uses the default domain share.vidyard.com. Vidyard is unable to authenticate viewers on pages with custom domain names.
  2. Leave a reply without signing in (for example, if they do not have a Vidyard account). Viewers have the option to enter their name along with the reply. If no name is provided, the comment will appear as from "Someone".

Leaving a Reply on a someone's sharing page

Delete a reply

Note: deleting a reply requires you to sign in to your Vidyard account on the video sharing page. Vidyard can only authenticate you if the sharing page uses the default domain share.vidyard.com. If the page uses a custom domain name, contact our Support Team to have a reply removed.


If you are the owner of the video, you can delete replies that viewers have posted on the sharing page.

A viewer may delete their own replies as well if they sign in to their Vidyard account.

  1. In a new browser tab, open the link to the sharing page with the reply that you want to delete 
  2. Scroll down to the replies section on the page, then select Sign in Here
    • If you are not already signed in, you will be prompted to enter the credentials for your Vidyard accountSigning in to your Vidyard account in order to delete a reply on your sharing page
  3. Select Delete next to the reply that you want to remove
  4. Select Yes, Delete Reply to confirmDeleting a reply

Notifications when you receive a reply

When someone leaves a reply on the sharing page for any video you've recorded or uploaded, you will receive a notification in your video library, the Vidyard browser extension, and the Vidyard desktop app.

The notification indicates who the reply is from (if provided) and a snippet of the reply itself. Click on the notification to open the video sharing page with the reply. 

Notifications in your video library

You can access your notifications from the notifications feed in your video library.

Select the notifications button  from the menu on the left-hand side.

The notifications menu in Vidyard Pro. Notifications about replies left on a video sharing page.

Notifications in the Vidyard browser extension & desktop app

You can also access notifications in the Vidyard browser extension (either in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge), or the Vidyard desktop application.

  1. Click on the Vidyard icon in your browser to open the extension, or in your program list to open the desktop app
  2. Select the notifications tab The notifications menu in the Vidyard browser extension

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