The short answer
If your church streams to its Broadcasteer address with Stream Cloud, every service is already being kept. To share one:
- In the Studio, open Settings › Stream Cloud.
- Find the service in the Stream Cloud library on the right.
- Give it a proper name with Rename.
- Press Copy link and paste it wherever you need it: a WhatsApp group, an email, the church newsletter.
The person who opens it gets that one service, playing at your address, with nothing else on the page. The same services are also listed under your live player as Past services, so anyone visiting your address can find last week's sermon on their own.
Stream Cloud and its library come with the MAX tier plus the Stream Cloud add-on, and are included on ALPHA. The rest of this page covers what gets kept, for how long, and the handful of things worth knowing before you rely on it.
What gets kept, automatically
You do not press record for this. When you stream to your address, the service is saved as it goes, and when you stop it lands in the library.
Two rules decide what stays:
Five minutes or longer. Anything shorter is treated as a test stream and thrown away. That keeps the library from filling up with thirty-second "is this working?" checks from Saturday afternoon.
Two copies, if you streamed above 720p. A 720p copy of every service is kept for as long as your address is active. If you streamed at 1080p or higher, that higher-quality copy is kept for two years as well. After two years the HD copy expires and the 720p copy carries on.
The way I think about it: the resolution fades, the sermon doesn't.
A practical side effect of the two copies: phones tend to settle on the 720p version and a big TV picks the higher one, and the player lets a viewer switch between them without losing their place.
Finding your way around the library
The Stream Cloud tab in Settings is split in two. On the left is your address, what the watch page says, and the viewer PIN. On the right is the library.
Stat tiles and a meter at the top show how many services you have and how much space they take, split between HD and 720p.
Search takes titles or dates. Once you have a few months of services, this is how you find "the one with the baptisms in March".
Sort by newest, oldest, largest, or HD expiring soonest. That last one is useful if you want to re-share a high-quality copy while it is still available, before it steps down to 720p.
List or tiles. Pick whichever you prefer; it remembers.
Each service shows its length, its quality, and for HD services a countdown to when the HD copy expires. A service in progress shows as Live now.
Naming a service so people can find it
A fresh service may arrive with a generic name, or none at all. Click the name, or use Rename, and give it something a member would recognise. "Sunday Service, 21 September" is better than nothing. "Sunday Service, 21 September... Baptism Sunday" is better still.
The new title shows on the public Past services list within about a minute. It is also the title people see when the link is shared.
Sharing a single service
Copy link gives you a link to that one service at your own address. It opens straight into the player for that service, not the live page.
A few things to know:
- The viewer PIN still applies. If your address has a PIN, the past service link asks for it too. That is deliberate... a PIN that protected the live service and not the recording would not be much of a PIN. Send the PIN along with the link to the people who should have it.
- The preview card is text only. When you paste the link into WhatsApp or a similar app, the preview shows the service title but no picture. That is why the name matters.
- Test the link from outside the building. Open it on a phone using mobile data, not the church Wi-Fi, before sending it to two hundred people.
Deleting a service
Some services should not be kept. A funeral the family asked not to publish. A Sunday where the stream picked up something it should not have.
In the library, use Delete… on that service. It asks you to confirm, and then the recording is removed from the cloud. It is gone for good; there is no bin to restore from.
Delete lives in the Studio and only there. It never appears on the public watch page, so a visitor can never remove anything, and you do not have to worry about a button being where it should not be.
If you need a whole account's recordings removed, that is a request to support rather than something the library does in bulk.
Before you rely on it
Your upload matters more when you stream above 720p. Keeping two copies means sending two versions of the stream while you are live. The Studio shows the extra upload it needs before you start. On a modest church connection, 720p is often the sensible choice anyway, and the 720p copy is the one that is kept forever.
Streams shorter than five minutes vanish. If you are testing whether the library works, test with a real six-minute stream.
Nothing to install for the library itself. Past services, the share links and the Stream Cloud tab all come with the Studio and your address. Keep the Local Server and Stream Module up to date and the rest follows.
Why this exists
For years, "can you send me last week's sermon?" in our church meant someone scrubbing through a long platform upload, or a file on a laptop that nobody could find. The service had been streamed. It just was not anywhere you could point to.
Now the answer is a link. The first real run of this, a cell group streamed from one phone for two and a half hours, landed in the library as one service, about four gigabytes at 720p, with its own link. That is the whole feature working as intended: you stream, it is kept, you share it.