Live Streaming & Premieres
Premiere countdown
Also called: countdown theme, premiere timer
A Premiere turns an uploaded video into a scheduled event, and the countdown is the waiting room in front of it. Viewers arriving early see a timer and a theme you picked during setup, and chat is live throughout, which is the whole point: it gathers everybody into the same moment so comments and reactions land together at the start. Creators can also upload a short trailer to play in place of the standard countdown. Anyone arriving after the Premiere has begun joins partway through, the same as a live stream, so the countdown is your only chance to gather the room.