ZIP Canvases — audio and video
ZIP is Zayvay's audio-and-video format. It's what you use for podcast episodes, video essays, talks, interviews — anything where listeners o…
What is a Canvas?
A Canvas is one piece of work on your Vault. Every video, every podcast episode, every essay, every ebook chapter — each one is a Canvas. Th…
Publishing your first Canvas
From Forge, click New Canvas in the top right. Pick the type — writing, ZIP, ebook, or video. The next steps depend on the type, but the bon…
The Cut
The Cut is the small set of Canvases you hand-pick as your best, or the place a new visitor should start. It appears at the top of your Vaul…
Editing a Canvas
Open the Canvas from your Canvases list in Forge. You can change: Title. Body text (writing Canvases). Cover image. Description. Collection …
Adding transcripts to a ZIP
Transcripts make a ZIP searchable, accessible, and Echo-friendly. There are two ways to add one. Auto-transcribe (recommended for most) From…
Ebook rights attestation
Before you can publish an ebook on Zayvay, you check a box that says you own the rights to publish it. That box is a real legal thing, not a…
Vault layout and theming
Two places to customize your Vault: Vault Layout and Vault Options in Forge. Vault Layout controls what shows up where: Whether The Cut appe…
Unpublishing and deleting a Canvas
Two different actions. Unpublish keeps the Canvas in Forge as a draft. It disappears from your Vault, stops earning brand revenue, and stops…
Collections
A Collection groups related Canvases together. A podcast season, an article series, an album, the chapters of a book — anything where the pi…
Writing Canvases
Writing Canvases are for essays, articles, short fiction, journals — anything text-based. The Forge editor is a clean rich-text experience. …
The ZIP timeline editor
The timeline editor lets you add interactive events at specific moments in a ZIP Canvas. It opens automatically when you create a ZIP, or yo…
Replying to an Echo
You can reply privately to any Echo on your work. The reply goes only to the viewer who left it. To reply, open the Echo from the Canvas Ech…
Marking a Canvas as explicit
On any Canvas, you can toggle an Explicit flag. Set it for content that contains strong language, sexual themes, graphic violence, or other …
Importing a show from RSS
If you already host a podcast on Buzzsprout, Acast, Anchor, or anywhere else, you can mirror the entire feed into Zayvay without re-uploadin…
Video Canvases
For a plain video — no interactive timeline, no slide events, just a clean player — pick Video when creating a new Canvas. The flow: Click u…
Echoes on your work
Echoes are private viewer reactions, anchored to a specific spot in your work. They're the closest thing Zayvay has to feedback — and we kep…
Uploading an ebook
To publish a book or long-form text on Zayvay, upload it as an EPUB. From Forge, click New Canvas → Ebook. The flow: Upload the EPUB file. Z…
Canvas types
There are four kinds of Canvas you can publish, plus one you import. Writing Essays, articles, short fiction, anything text-based. Viewers c…