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title: "7. Create A Channel"
url: "https://support.sardius.media/knowledge-base/7-create-a-channel"
category: "Getting Started (Level 1)"
updated: 2026-08-20
summary: "In this episode of our Onboarding Tutorials, you will learn how to create a Sardius channel. You will also be introduced to several of the default layouts already available within your account."
---

# 7. Create A Channel

**Video**

> **Transcript:** Welcome back to our onboarding video series. In this video, we will learn about channels and how they can operate within your workflow. At Sardius, we believe that the most crucial piece to your streaming workflow is how your viewer interacts with your content. We package this experience in a product called Sardius Channels. These channels can provide anything from a simple player that can be embedded into websites, a video on demand library, a church service, or even a full blown conference with chat, breakout rooms, and more. In order to produce a live stream, you will need to create a channel in order to carry and deliver live content for your viewers. Let's create a channel channels under experiences in the sidebar. You can create a channel by clicking create channel in the middle of the screen or create channel in the upper right corner. You will have three different options available to you; Online Events On-Demand Library Platform, or Stream only. The option you select here will determine how you set up your channel. Each of these is set up just a little bit differently, and we will explore each of them in future videos. For now, we're going to stick with our default option, The Online Events. Click next. can now enter in basic information for your channel. We're going to start with a name and a description. This description will be for internal use. may be asked to enter a date for your event. Single events are perfect for conferences that will be meeting for two or three days. Recurring events are ideal for workflows that will have repeat events every week. Next, we will customize our subdomain. And we can select additional features that we would like for our channel. Again, not every channel setup will have these options. For now, we are not going to select any of these. Finally, we can customize our channel card appearance. We can upload an image. We can click once to upload and select anything from our gallery. And you'll notice in the upper corner, This channel card our preview will show in the Channels menu after we've created this channel. We can also change the color We'll hit, save and continue and then we will be prompted to pick a layout. Most clients will have the following options available to them in the Sardius Control Panel: Player Only, Slate, Collection and Chat. layouts will be released on your account as they become available. you have questions or want to see other layouts, please reach out to your account manager. For now we are just going to select the Slate layout and then we'll hit create channel. Awesome. We've now created our channel. All of these options we will explore in upcoming videos. Thanks for joining us. And we'll see you in the next video.

In this episode of our Onboarding Tutorials, you will learn how to create a Sardius channel. You will also be introduced to several of the default layouts already available within your account.

**Onboarding Video Series (Level 1)**  

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