Posts Tagged ‘livestream’

Posted on September 10, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

LiveStream launches custom interactive events with Facebook & Twitter similar to uStream

LiveStream’s new service features:

• Fully branded user experience on your website, syndication partners website, Livestream.com and Facebook.
• Viral At The Core – Through chat, your viewers promote links to your live event and destinations using Twitter and Facebook status updates.
• Social At The Core – Watch within Facebook, build followers for your Twitter profile and Facebook pages/applications.
• Scalable – The Livestream Platform can handle hundreds of thousands of simultaneous viewers.

More info: http://cdn.livestream.com/services/customevent/

Here’s a screen shot from Ustream’s Facebook live event page.

Ustream’s service features:

• Ability to customize headers and banners
• Live interactive video to promote upcoming projects and engage fans
• Ability to chat with millions of fans simultaneously
• Facebook live stream box allows fans to communicate with their favorite brands and artists and to spread their comments virally among friends

More info: http://www.ustream.tv/facebooklive

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Both services seems to target bands and artist who want to broadcast live and interact with fans on Facebook and Twitter. While I think this is a great idea and plug for both platforms including Facebook. My question is why host a live video on Facebook when you can host the event on your main website? But I do get the simplicity factor since bands, artist  and people spend so much time on Facebook, so just add the ability to host a live video show directly from a fanpage. hmmm

Has anyone used either one of the services from within FaceBook and you’re not a in a band or a music artist? If so how was your experience?

Posted on June 23, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Tuesday on Talk Social News: Live video streaming and promoting your broadcast.

For those of you who don’t know, Monday thru Friday, Kipp Bodnar and I record a daily video/audio podcast called Talk Social News. We started off as a weekly podcast around September of 2008 where we would interview leaders in online technology and social media. We have interviewed people such as Louis Gray, Martin May, Allen Stern, and Peter Shankman and went on to record a daily podcast from SXSW 09. After SXSW we decided to make the transition from a weekly podcast to a daily video show lasting around 10 minutes each, still providing an audio mp3 file to listen to. Since we have moved to the daily video format Kipp and I have recorded over 61 daily video podcast on Talk Social News.

Today on Talk Social News podcast, Kipp and I discuss something I’m very passionate about, real-time live video streaming. (WayneSutton.TV coming soon) We mostly talked about desktop live video streaming services like ustream.tv and livestream and ways to promote your live broadcast using social media / social networking sites. Take a look at the today’s show and let me know what you think.

We’re also looking for sponsors / advertisers, if you’re interested send us an email at contact@talksocialnews.com.

Also see: What equipment do I use for recording video & live streaming and My 4 favorite WordPress Video Blogging Themes

What live streaming video site do you use? Do you watch or create live video shows?

Posted on May 20, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

Twitter Tees via Threadless, Livestream.com & why Watchitoo is the future of TV – episode 40

Today on Talk Social News Kipp and Wayne discuss Threadless twitter tees, Livestream.com and why watchitoo is the future of tv

The Video:

The podcast:
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