YouTube has announced that it can be broadcast live from its iOS and Android application. The announcement by YouTube comes just after Twitter incorporated Periscope into its own application for streaming video sharing and Tumblr announced that it was going to allow this functionality in its application, jumping on the bandwagon of the live video broadcast that is so popular. lately.
YouTube boasts that more than 21 million people connected to see the Coachella music festival in its latest edition. Also of other events that they broadcast in streaming such as the jump of Felix Baumgartner from the stratosphere in 2012.
The company has said that live broadcasting from mobile platforms will be very simple and you will not need a different account which we already have on YouTube. Users will only have to press the button to broadcast live to be able to be broadcasting to the whole world quickly.
It seems that the interface while the user broadcasts live will be similar to the one we can find in Periscope, where we see the number of people connected to our streaming, the comments of other users who make through the integrated chat and, of course, the button allows us to end a transmission.
YouTube wants to treat these streaming videos like any other normal video get on the platform. This means that users will be able to search for live broadcasts just as they do with any other video, either by direct search or by recommendations. YouTube wants to protect the misuse of streams, this means that it will restrict some broadcasts such as a broadcast from a movie theater. The video platform says its streaming service will be "faster and more reliable than anything else out there."
YouTube will gradually incorporate this option to all users, since it is now in the testing phase with some accounts. If you are fans of streaming playback, you are sure to give Google's application a chance, which has the widest catalog of users who consume video.
