Calisto TV

Post your video where the audience already is.

A video platform with viewers on it. Post, and the front page, the trending row, topic browsing and search put you in front of people who have never heard of you. Upload, trim it on a timeline, go live, and send the same file out to the platforms you already publish on.

Free to watch, no account needed · Upload, trim and publish without leaving the browser · Goes out to your own pages and the platforms you already publish on

TV · Channel
Calisto TV

A Place to Watch, and a Place to Be Watched

Free to view for anyone who lands on it. Post to it, and the platform is what carries you to people who were not looking for you.

Watch

Open it and there is already something to watch.

The free side. It opens on a home feed rather than a search box, and everything on that feed was posted by somebody else on the platform. Browse by category, see what is trending, scroll a vertical shorts feed, drop into whatever is live, and search across all of it. Watching costs nothing and needs no account. Signing in is what adds the things that are yours.

Discover

A home feed on arrival, plus browse, trending, a vertical shorts feed, live now, community and search across every channel on the platform.

Player

A full player with title, description and creator. Like, save and comment. Watch signed out, or sign in to keep what you did.

Your library

Every viewer keeps their own subscriptions, saved library, continue-watching and history.

HomeBrowseTrendingShortsLiveCommunitySearch

Season Opener

Calisto Main · 12K views

Studio Walkthrough

Tutorials · 4.8K views

Live: Q&A

Behind the Scenes · LIVE

Get Found

Somebody who has never heard of you finds the video anyway.

You are not posting into an empty room. Every upload lands on a platform that already has viewers on it, with a front page, a trending row, topic browsing and a search box they are all using.

Trending

The videos people are watching right now, on the way in, ranked by what is actually being watched. A video that catches gets carried by the platform rather than by your promotion budget.

The home feed

Everybody arrives on a feed rather than a search box, so a new upload has somewhere to appear on the day you post it.

Topics

Everything is browsable by topic. Somebody looking for what you make finds the shelf it sits on without knowing your name.

Spotlights

Featured channels get a spotlight on the front page, so the platform can put a channel in front of people rather than wait to be searched for.

Search

One search across every video and every channel on the platform, not only across yours.

Subscriptions and notifications

Anyone who follows you is told when you post, go live, or reply. The next upload does not start from zero.

The Player

Like it, save it, say something about it.

The watch page is the product for everyone who is not uploading. Likes and saves go to a library that is theirs, comments sit under the video, and a related row means finishing one thing leads to the next.

TV · The Player
Building the whole thing in one weekend
1,284 views · Posted 3 days ago
♥ LikedSaveShare
2 comments
Amina Yusuf 2 hours ago
Found this on trending and went straight through the back catalogue. Subscribed.
Diego Ferrer Yesterday
The bit at 4:10 is the clearest version of this I have seen anywhere.

One tap to say it was good, one to keep it. Saved videos go to a library that is theirs.

A thread on the video itself, moderated from your side, so a channel is not choosing between conversation and control.

A related row beside the video, so finishing one thing leads to the next instead of a dead end.

Anyone who lands on a video plays it. Signing in is what adds the library, the history, and the ability to say something.

That is what a viewer opens. This is what you get to post with.

Channels

Run more than one channel without losing track.

Channels are the containers for your video content. Create a channel, customize its name, description, and branding. Manage all your channels from one list. Open a channel to see its videos, settings, and performance. One business can run multiple channels, a main channel, a tutorial channel, a behind-the-scenes channel, each with its own identity.

Channel List

All your channels in one view. Name, video count, follower count. Create new channels from the list.

Channel Detail

Open a channel and see everything: videos, settings, branding, performance. Edit channel metadata. Manage the channel’s content library.

Calisto Main

124 videos · 8.2K followers

Tutorials

47 videos · 3.1K followers

Behind the Scenes

18 videos · 1.4K followers

Upload

Drag a video. Set the details. Choose visibility. Publish.

A four-step wizard. Drag the file in or browse for it, and the upload survives an interruption. Set the title, description, tags, category and thumbnail. Choose public, unlisted, private, or scheduled for a time you pick. Publish, and it is live.

Upload

Drag the file in. The upload resumes where it stopped, so a dropped connection costs you the chunk and not the file.

Details

The title fills in from the filename. Add a description, tags, a category and a thumbnail.

Visibility

Public, unlisted, private, or scheduled for a date and time you set.

Publish

Review and publish. The video processes and appears on your channel.

Drag & drop your video

or browse

my-video.mp4: 67% uploaded

1 Upload2 Details3 Visibility4 Publish
Go Live

Point your encoder at it and you are on.

Set a title, description and category for the stream, then point any encoder or hardware at the RTMP endpoint and start. Viewers are watching about three seconds behind the room. The panel shows live status, viewer count as it moves, how long you have been on, and the control that stops it.

Stream Configuration

Title, description, and category for the live stream. Set the metadata before you go live.

Stream Key & RTMP URL

A unique stream key and RTMP URL for your encoder. Show or hide the key, and copy either to your clipboard.

Live Dashboard

Live/offline status indicator. Real-time viewer count polling. Stream duration. Start and stop controls.

Stream Key
••••••••••••••••Reveal
RTMP URL
rtmp://live.calisto.tv/stream
LIVE1,247 viewers
Duration: 1h 23m
Stop Broadcast

Getting it up is one thing. Making it worth watching is the work.

Production

Cut it down before anybody has to sit through it.

A timeline for trimming, clips pulled out of longer cuts, chapters so people can skip, and captions so they can follow without sound.

Video Editor

Cut it down, mark it up, and let people follow without sound.

Three production tools. The video editor opens a timeline view for trimming: set start and end points, cut the clip, export. Chapters add named markers to a video timeline. Viewers jump to specific sections. Captions manage subtitles: add, edit, and sync caption tracks to video content.

Video Editor

Timeline editor for trimming video. Set trim points. Preview. Export.

Chapters

Named markers on the video timeline. Add chapter titles and timestamps. Viewers see a chapter list and jump to any point.

Captions

Subtitle and caption management. Add caption tracks. Edit timing and text. Sync captions to video.

00:00 Intro02:15 Setup05:30 Main Topic12:00 Wrap Up
[00:02:15] Welcome to today's episode...
Hosting and delivery

Your video, at every size a connection can take.

Send a file up to 30 GB and 24 hours long. It comes back as six streams from 240p to 4K, and the player hands over whichever one the viewer's connection can actually play.

Source fileUp to 30 GB · 24 hours
Renditions240p · 360p · 480p · 720p · 1080p · 4K
DeliveryAdaptive HLS + full-quality MP4
UploadResumable, straight from the browser
Live ingestRTMPS → low-latency HLS
Live delayAbout 3 seconds
The masterStays in your own file store

The master stays in your own file store, so what you keep is the file you uploaded and not a copy of it. Uploads go straight from the browser and pick up where the connection dropped. Delivery is adaptive over a CDN, with a full-quality MP4 beside it for anyone who needs the file itself.

Distribution

Upload once. Publish wherever you already publish.

Straight to your YouTube channel over a connected account, out to your social accounts, and onto your own pages, screens and apps.

Distribution

See what went out, and what did not.

Connect your YouTube channel once and push videos straight to it. Send them out to the social accounts you already have connected. Drop them onto your own pages, apps, and screens with an embed snippet. One board tells you what is connected, what has published, and what has not.

YouTube

Connect YouTube over OAuth and upload your Calisto-hosted videos straight to your channel.

Social

Share a video to your connected social accounts through Calisto Impreta.

Your Own Pages

Drop a video onto a website page, into a mobile app, or onto a screen in a room, with one embed snippet.

YouTube

47 published

OAuth connected

Connected

Social · Impreta

23 shared

Embed on your own pages

Connected
Audience

Who watched, who stayed, and who keeps coming back.

Views, watch time, engagement, and how each moved over time. Beside it, who follows your channels, when they started, and when they last watched something of yours. Comments come through a moderation queue rather than straight onto the video. Following costs nothing, and pre-roll and mid-roll ad slots run against your videos when you want them to.

Analytics

Viewer metrics over time. Views, watch time, engagement rates. Content performance.

Followers

Follower roster with name, email, channel, date followed, and when they last watched. Follows cost nothing, and there is no paywall.

Analytics

12.4K views this week

Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri

Followers

Alex M.

Calisto Main

Followed Mar 4

Watched 2 days ago

Jordan K.

Tutorials

Followed Feb 18

Watched today

Sam R.

Behind the Scenes

Followed Jan 9

Never watched

The tools that get a video posted are already next door. None of them is a second subscription.

Pricing

No setup cost. Pay when you start using.

Video streaming for your audience.

Included with your Account

Streaming platform.

0Additional Cost

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Works well together.

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Calisto Studio

Content creation tools.

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Calisto Direct

Creator monetization platform.

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Calisto Depot

Calisto Work

Documents, spreadsheets, slides, forms, and file storage

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Calisto Live

Calisto Live

Live chat on your website and mobile site.

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Calisto Display

Calisto Display

TV and screen management.

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Calisto Impreta

Calisto Engage

Social media publishing.

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Everything. One Price.

Everything included in Calisto TV.

Watch
  • Home feed, browse, trending, live, and search across every channel on the platform. No cost to view, no account needed.
The Watch Page
  • Like, save, share by link or embed, a related row, and a comment thread on the video itself.
Shorts
  • A vertical short-form feed alongside the full-length catalogue.
Spotlights & Topics
  • Featured channel spotlights, and everything browsable by topic for anyone arriving without a destination.
Community Posts
  • Channel posts between uploads, so a channel is not silent between videos.
Continue Watching
  • Everything you started and did not finish, resuming where you stopped.
Library, Playlists & History
  • Save anything for later, build your own ordered lists across channels, and keep what you watched.
Viewer Notifications
  • Told when a channel you follow posts, goes live, or replies, with the list kept to catch up on.
Premium
  • A gated tier for members, with everything else open to anyone who lands on it.
Channels
  • Channel directory with branding, metadata, and content management. Channel detail view.
Videos
  • Video library across channels. Browse, search, and manage all uploaded content.
Upload
  • Resumable drag-and-drop upload. Title, description, tags, category, thumbnail. Public, unlisted, private, or scheduled visibility.
Schedule
  • A read-only view of upcoming timed releases. The release time is set on the upload visibility step.
Go Live
  • RTMP live streaming. Stream key and URL. Real-time viewer count. Start/stop controls.
Playlists
  • Organize videos into ordered playlists for curated viewing.
Video Editor
  • Timeline trimming. Set start and end points. Preview and export.
Media Library
  • Every video asset in one place: uploads, thumbnails and the files that go with them. Browse, search, and pick assets for use across your channels.
Source Files
  • Up to 30 GB and 24 hours per video. H.264 in any common container, 360° supported, ProRes RAW is not.
Renditions
  • Encoded to 240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p and 4K, up to the size of the file you sent.
Delivery
  • Adaptive HLS over a CDN, plus a full-quality MP4 for anyone who needs the file itself.
Resumable Upload
  • Bytes go straight from the browser in chunks, so a dropped connection costs the chunk and not the file.
Live Ingest
  • RTMPS in, low-latency HLS out, 240p to 4K, about three seconds behind the room. Stream as long as you like; recordings are split every 24 hours.
Your Master
  • The source file stays in your own file store. Renditions are rebuilt from it rather than re-requested from anyone.
Clips & Export Queue
  • Account-wide roll-ups of trimmed clips and export jobs with processing status.
Chapters & Captions
  • Named timeline markers with timestamps. Subtitle track management.
Distribution
  • Push to your YouTube channel, out to connected social accounts, and onto your own pages, apps, and screens. One board for what published.
Analytics
  • Views, watch time, engagement, and trends. Content performance metrics.
Followers
  • Follower roster with name, email, channel, date followed, and when they last watched. Follows cost nothing.
Comments
  • Comment moderation across channels and videos.
Video Ads
  • Pre-roll and mid-roll ad slots with companion banners, served against your videos.
Approvals & Reports
  • Content approval queue and video performance reporting.
Honest answers

Questions about Calisto TV

Both. A home feed, shorts, live, subscriptions and a player that remembers where you stopped, plus upload, streaming, a timeline editor and distribution out to wherever else you publish.

Yes. Distribution goes outward to the platforms you already use, so your own app and the public platforms are two destinations rather than two workflows.

In the shared file store, which is why a clip can be dropped onto a site, a screen or a kiosk without being uploaded a second time.

Yes, with metadata. Subscriber counts on third-party platforms stay with those platforms, since they were never yours to move.

The pricing section on this page reads the live catalogue and is the authority. TV works without the rest of Calisto Create.

Yes. Masters and edits export from the shared store in original formats.