Instead, those who want to live stream from anywhere on mobile have had to turn to services like Periscope and Facebook, who were early into mobile live streaming game. The new function will come with all regular features included in videos. In 2012, it streamed Felix Baumgartner’s supersonic freefall from space.
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Most recently, the industry saw a prime example of streaming apps’ potential to democratize news and events, when U.S. Democratic representatives staged a 25-hour sit-in on the House floor. The company is one of the pioneers of the whole live streaming trend.
With the introduction of YouTube Red late previous year, the site took its first step on the long road to competing with the likes of Amazon Prime Video, Netflix and Hulu.
Since the upcoming feature will be embedded into the core of the YouTube mobile app, users wouldn’t have to spend too much time getting familiar with it. Users won’t need to download further complements. There will be a new “capture” button in the app; after hitting that, you can shoot a photo to use as a thumbnail, add a quick description and start broadcasting. It’s updating its mobile app so that the ability to go live will be baked right in.
The offering is now available only to some high-profile YouTube content providers but will soon be available to all users, the business said.
YouTube’s mobile app will soon gain its own live streaming capabilities for content creators, just as they have had using YouTube’s Web-based platform since 2011.
In the YouTube live streaming UI, you can check to see how many people are watching, how many likes you’ve gotten, and tap an always-there button to flip your camera over. Users have the option to make the live streaming viewable to everyone.
These Live streams will also show up in your recommendation and playlist menu. The Coachella live stream YouTube is talking about brought in more than 21 million viewers, which it points out is almost twice as many who flipped on their televisions to watch the season finale of American Idol, in case you need a point of comparison. She stated that VidCon was more than screaming fans pursuing internet stars.
As for the new YouTube for Creators program, YouTube will begin offering perks for channels that reach 0, 100, and 10,000 subscribers.
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YouTube live-streaming: How does it work? Both Periscope and Facebook Live have been enjoying loads of positive reviews from users these days; with loads of adoption as well. Ms. Candance was invited to Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, to enjoy a guidded visit with Chewbacca.
