Questions, answered

A run of show is the minute by minute plan for a live event: every segment in order, with timing, and the cues each one needs. NextShow turns that plan into a live shared document instead of a printed sheet.

Yes. The Free plan is fully usable: all your columns, View and Edit links, live mode, and password protection. The one limit is 5 segments per run of show. The $15 Event Pass removes that limit for one show.

No. A View or Edit link opens in any modern browser on any device. Nothing to install, nothing to sign into.

Never. The link is the run of show. Change a segment and everyone holding the link sees the new version instantly.

Yes. Share the Edit link with your co-producer, coordinator, or crew and build the run of show together. Password-protect it if you want to control access.

Yes. Free gives you every column, live sharing, and live mode. The only limit is 5 segments per run of show. Most people try a full small event before they ever hit it.

One run of show, fully unlocked, for 30 days. Ideal for a single conference, wedding, or gala when you do not need it year round.

Your shows are never deleted. If Pro lapses, segments past the free limit lock until you renew. Nothing is lost.

A corporate run of show is the minute by minute plan for a corporate event: every segment in order with timing, plus columns for talent, AV, lighting, and crew notes. It is the document the producer, the stage manager, and the AV team all run from.

By link. You send one View link to everyone who follows the show and an Edit link to the people who build it, with an optional password on either. Any change reaches every open link instantly.

As the show runs, you mark the active segment from your Edit view. Every open link highlights it and scrolls to it, and a drift indicator shows whether you are running ahead or behind schedule.

The agenda is the public schedule attendees see. The run of show is the production version behind it, with AV cues, room logistics, and the timing detail your team needs. Build the run of show and let the agenda be its public face.

Two ways that both work: keep parallel sessions as rows sharing a start time with a Room column, like the example above, or build one run of show per track and give each room team its own link.

Send the View link. It opens in the browser on the room laptop or the tech's phone, with no install and no account, and it always shows the current schedule and the live active segment.

A webinar run of show is the segment by segment plan for a scripted online event: what happens, who is on, how long it runs, and the cue each segment needs, from the pre-roll countdown to the closing call to action.

Send the View link for following along, or the Edit link if they help build the show. Both open in the browser with no account, so a guest host can read cues without any setup.

Give each segment a duration and watch the drift indicator as you run. When a segment stretches, you see it immediately, and the times ahead re-compute so you know exactly what to trim.

A wedding run of show is the timeline of the whole day, from guest arrival through the last dance, with a start time and duration for each moment and notes for who does what. Coordinators build it so the couple and every vendor work from one plan.

Send one View link. It opens on any phone with nothing to install, and it cannot be edited, so the version the DJ reads is always the version you wrote.

Yes. Edit from your phone or laptop and every open link updates instantly. When the ceremony runs long, change one time and the rest of the timeline re-times itself.

Same idea, two rooms. The order of service is the worship-team term; the run of show is the production term. In NextShow it is one document: segments in order, with the timing and cues each ministry area needs.

Send the View link in your team chat. It opens in the browser on any device, with no account and nothing to install, so a first-week volunteer can follow the service plan as easily as your tech director.

Yes. Mark the active segment from the Edit view as the service moves. Every open link highlights it and scrolls to it, so the camera operator and the streaming volunteer always know what is next.

A gala run of show is the minute by minute plan for the whole evening: reception, seating, welcome, dinner, program, the appeal, and the close, each with timing, talent, and AV notes.

One View link covers everyone, from board members to the caterer. It opens on any phone or laptop with no install and no account, and it always shows the current plan.

Set durations, lock the hard points like dinner service, and watch the drift indicator as the night runs. When something stretches, the times ahead re-compute so you can protect the ask.

The booth day in order: open, demos, presentations, giveaways, staffing rotations, and breaks, each with a start, a duration, and columns for staff, demo content, and AV.

Send the View link in the team chat. It opens on any phone with no app to install, so everyone on the floor reads the same current schedule.

Yes. Any edit reaches every open link instantly, and the active segment marker shows the floor team exactly where the day is.

A stream run of show is the segment plan for a livestream or live podcast: what happens, who hosts it, how long it runs, and the OBS scene it expects, from the starting-soon loop to the outro.

Send the View link for following and the Edit link for building. Both open in the browser, so a remote co-host can read the rundown next to the call window with no setup.

Durations plus the drift indicator. You always know if the show is running ahead or behind, and when a segment stretches, the rest of the rundown re-times itself so you can plan the recovery.

A run of show template is a pre-built table for planning a live event: segments in order, start times, durations, and columns for talent, AV, and notes. You fill in your own segments instead of building the structure from scratch.

Create a sheet with the template's columns, Segment, Start, Duration, Talent, AV, and Notes, then add one row per segment, like the example above. The columns work as they are, or add and remove them to fit your show. You can chain the times with formulas, though they only hold while nobody inserts a row or types over a cell.

Open the template in NextShow instead of a spreadsheet. Same table, but the start and end times compute from your durations, changes reach every open link instantly, and you can mark the active segment as the show runs.

An event agenda is the ordered schedule of an event: each item with its time, owner, and location. It is the public face of the plan, the version attendees and staff read.

The agenda is the public schedule. The run of show is the production plan behind it, with cues, crew columns, and timing detail. In NextShow you can build both from the same kind of table.

Share it as a live link instead of a file. Send one View link and every schedule change you make appears instantly for everyone holding it. No re-sending, no version confusion.

An event timeline is the full schedule of an event day laid out in order, from load-in through strike, with a start time and duration for each item. Teams use it to see how the day fits together and where their part lands.

The timeline is the wide view of the whole day, including setup and teardown. The run of show is the minute by minute plan for the show itself. In NextShow both are the same kind of table, at different zoom levels.

Keep it live instead of printed. In NextShow you change the item once, the rest of the day re-times itself, and everyone holding the link sees the new timeline immediately.

Rundown Studio has a free tier, and so does NextShow. The difference is shape: NextShow Free is the full tool with a cap of 5 segments per run of show, and a $15 Event Pass lifts the cap on one show for 30 days.

Compare the event options directly. NextShow's Event Pass is $15 and unlocks a run of show for 30 days. Rundown Studio sells event access over shorter windows. For a conference week or a wedding month, the longer window is the practical difference.

Yes. Only the show owner needs an account. Everyone else opens a View or Edit link in the browser, on any device, with an optional password.

Shoflo is now part of Lasso and is sold as Lasso Rundown; the shoflo.tv site redirects to lasso.io. The product keeps its enterprise event-production focus. The brand and the packaging moved.

For the core job, yes: a live, shared run of show your team follows in real time. NextShow is self-serve and free to start. What it does not try to be is an enterprise platform with hands-on onboarding, add-on modules, and per-user licensing.

NextShow is free to start, $15 for one fully unlocked show, or $129 per year for everything. Shoflo Rundown is licensed annually per user through Lasso. If you want simple public pricing with no seats, that is the difference to check first.

Television and radio newsrooms. It specializes in broadcast workflows, with a two-column TV script format and integrations for newsroom hardware and graphics systems.

NextShow is built for live events, streams, and shows of every kind rather than newsroom production. If you need broadcast hardware integrations, Rundown Creator is built for that. If you need a live run of show anyone can open by link, that is NextShow.

NextShow has a real free tier, then $15 for one event or $129 per year for everything. Rundown Creator is a per-user subscription billed monthly or yearly, with a free two-week trial; its pricing page lists no free plan.

A run of show is the minute by minute plan for a live event. It lists every segment in order, with start and end times, and the cues each segment needs: who is on, what plays, what the crew does.

List your segments in order, set a start time and a duration for each, add columns for the cues your show tracks, lock the segments that cannot move, and share it with your team.

How to create a run of show, step by step

An agenda is the public schedule attendees see, with session names and times. A run of show is the working production plan behind it, with the timing detail and cues the crew needs to run the event.

In live production, a rundown is the ordered list of a show's segments with timing and cues. Outside production the word means a quick summary; in broadcast, streaming, and events it is the working document the crew runs the show from.

Yes. A rundown and a run of show are the same document under two names. Rundown is the common term in broadcast and streaming; run of show is more common in corporate and live events.

Broadcast and news teams, streamers and live podcasters, and event producers. The format is the same everywhere: segments in order, with the timing and cues to run them.

A production cue sheet is an ordered list of every cue in a live show, with its timing, the department responsible, and the action to take. Lighting, audio, video, and stage crews work from it so every transition lands on time.

A run of show is the whole plan for the event, segment by segment. A cue sheet zooms in on the cues inside it. On smaller shows the two live in one document: segments as rows, cue detail in the columns.

Share it as a live link instead of a printout. In NextShow you send one View link that opens in any browser, with no install and no account, and every change you make reaches the whole crew instantly.

A production schedule is the master timeline for producing an event. It covers every phase from load-in and rehearsal through show and strike, with a time, a duration, and an owner for each phase.

The production schedule is the wide view of the whole production day, from load-in to strike. The run of show is the tight, minute by minute view of the show itself. Producers build both.

Send one live link. A View link in NextShow opens on any device with nothing to install, so riggers, AV, catering, and venue staff all read the same current schedule instead of a printout that went stale at load-in.

Show calling is running a live show in real time: reading the run of show, watching the stage, and calling each cue out loud, standby then go, so lighting, audio, video, and stage crew all act on the same beat.

The jobs overlap. In theater the stage manager calls the show. In corporate and live events the role is usually a dedicated show caller. Either way, the work is turning the run of show into real time cues.

A headset to reach the crew, a timer to stay on schedule, and a run of show everyone trusts. A live, shared run of show helps most: when the schedule shifts mid-show, the caller and the crew are still reading the same version.

No. The control link carries its own access, the same way the Edit link it comes from does. If the Edit link has a password, add it to the control URL as a password parameter.

The active segment: next, previous, and jump to a specific segment by number. It is the same action as pressing the segment in Show Control, so every open View and Edit link follows instantly.

Yes. Any tool that can fire a plain web request can use the same control links: a vMix shortcut or script, an OBS automation plugin with an HTTP action, or even a browser bookmark on the producer laptop.