This article is about the registration page that was introduced in June 2025. Please read this article instead if you’re still using the previous version.
Still using the previous version but want to switch over to the new one? Check this article.
Webinars, by default, require registration to be watched. However, if you want to share your webinar and don’t want to collect data such as email addresses, you can also send people the direct link. This link allows viewers to watch the webinar without registration; you can either require only their first name or no information at all. It makes watching webinars really easy for your attendees, at the cost of viewer data.
The ‘View without registration’ link always leads to the current or next broadcast in the webinar. You can’t select a specific broadcast for it.
Using a ‘View without registration’ link
The ‘View without registration’ link is quick and easy for both you and your viewers. Follow the steps below to find out how to enable and share your ‘View without registration’ link.
Find your webinar in your webinar overview and click its title
Click the ‘Edit webinar’ button
Go to ‘Registration’
Scroll down to ‘View without registration’
Make sure the switch next to ‘Enable direct link’ is enabled
Copy the link by pressing the icon with two sheets
Share it with your audience!
You can also find the ‘View without registration’ link in your webinar’s overview.
Disable the first name requirement for viewers
By default, even the ‘View without registration’ link asks viewers for their first name. This is so that we know what name to show if they participate in the chat. However, you can also make it so that they don’t have to enter any information at all. Follow the steps below to turn off the first name requirement:
Find your webinar in your webinar overview and click its title
Click the ‘Edit webinar’ button
Go to ‘Registration’
Scroll down to ‘View without registration’
Turn off the switch next to ‘Require first name’
When this setting is disabled, viewers that use the ‘View without registration’ link will be immediately sent to the webinar without having to enter their first name. They will receive a randomly generated English name that shows up when they send a chat message. These randomly generated names consist of a color adjective and a noun (e.g. Blue Colombia, Yellow Enterprise).
Automatically enter first name when opening the link
You can also configure the ‘View without registration’ so that it automatically fills in the viewer’s first name. This is done by adding a ‘firstname’ parameter to the URL. By filling in the name of the participant in the URL, the first name field is automatically filled for the viewer.
A public viewing link with a ‘firstname’ parameter looks like this:
You have to enter the first name of the recipient at the end of the URL, like so:
When someone uses this link to watch your webinar, the first name field will automatically be filled with ‘Dewi’. Then they only have to click ‘View webinar’ to get started with watching, but they still have a recognizable name!
You can use this link in some pretty handy ways. For example, if you send the link from WebinarGeek’s email system, you could change it to look like this:
Our system will then automatically replace {{first_name}] with the first name of the recipient, because {{first_name}} is a variable in our system. This means the link will automatically be ‘created’ for that particular person, and then you don’t even have to specify their name in the link yourself!
Important things to remember
Viewers who use the ‘View without registration’ link don’t receive emails because we don’t have their email address. This means they also can’t receive the webinar replay.
You cannot use the ‘View without registration’ link for on demand webinar series, paid webinars or just-in-time-only webinars.
Be careful with where you share the ‘View without registration’ link. It makes anyone able to watch your webinar.
Viewers can be found in your statistics and CSV exports with the first name they enter or their randomly generated name.
The viewers can see and interact with your interactions (polls, quizzes, call-to-actions). The statistics we keep use the first name (or randomly generated name) of the viewer.