Livestreaming

VTubing Is More Than Just Livestreaming With Cute Anime Avatars

There’s a new type of livestream building steam: It’s called VTubing, and for many people, it might only exist as thumbnails in YouTube’s recommended videos section. But VTubing is way more involved than just clips that feature kawaii anime avatars. It’s an important evolution of our social media landscape. Until fairly recently, VTubing was a…

Internet Sam Rutherford Feb 10

Microsoft Is Killing Mixer and Moving Everything to Facebook Gaming

Despite signing a number of major streamers including Ninja and Shroud, Microsoft’s livestream platform Mixer just couldn’t break through. So starting today, Microsoft is moving all of Mixer’s content over to Facebook Gaming before Mixer gets shut down completely on July 22. In a post on the Mixer blog, Microsoft said that even with numerous…

Tech News Sam Rutherford Jun 22

Microsoft Snipes Another Streamer From Twitch as Shroud Moves to Mixer

First, it was Ninja, and now it’s Shroud, as Microsoft has inked a deal that will have yet another one of Twitch’s most popular streamers switch exclusively to Mixer. While details of the deal have not been announced, Microsoft is surely forking over a significant amount of cash as Shroud—who is best known for playing…

Games Sam Rutherford Oct 24

I Liked Something Online Today

It’s hard to shock the staff of Gizmodo dot com. Collectively, we’ve spent millions of hours online, covering everything from fishman dildos to catfish fetishists. Today, however, we discovered something truly surprising: Reddit Public Access Network, the platform’s new experiment with livestreaming, is honestly pretty good. Launched on Monday as a five-day test, RPAN invites…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Aug 22

Internet Celebrity Imprisoned for Short, Goofy Rendition of China’s National Anthem

Yang Kaili, a young internet star in China, was detained for five days for singing the country’s national anthem in a non-serious manner during a livestream. On October 7, clad in a fuzzy antler headband, Yang waved her hands around as she sang the national anthem for about 10 seconds. “The national anthem is an…

Tech News Melanie Ehrenkranz Oct 16

Let’s All Be Charmed by This Chinese Man Who Makes a Living Live-Streaming Farming

So much of our extremely online lives now revolves around things like the president of the United States threatening to either nuke North Korea or show them his genitals (not sure which!) or worrying about massive security breaches. But hey, some of it also rules. Per NPR, one of the hottest trends on Chinese social…

Tech News Tom McKay Jan 4

Users Looking for Child Pornography Are Gathering on Periscope, Twitter’s Forgotten Video Service

As 2017 wheezes to its merciful end and the social media titans reckon with growing backlash, Twitter’s largely forgotten video streaming app Periscope has gained an insidious second life as a hub for seekers of child pornography. Gizmodo’s search of the platform over the course of a single afternoon uncovered dozens of accounts—50 in total—which…

Tech News Avery Ellis Dec 15

House GOP Passes New Rules to Punish Livestreaming Protests from Congress

Voting largely along party lines, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives approved new fines on Tuesday against lawmakers who use electronic devices to take pictures or broadcast from the chamber, prompting a barrage of flashes as Democrats snapped photos in defiance of the rules. Majority Leader Paul Ryan proposed the fines in response to one of…

Tech News Hudson Hongo Jan 3

Why the Hell Did It Take So Long for YouTube to Do Live Streaming for Mobile?

On Thursday, YouTube announced the launch mobile live streaming capabilities for select users, a service that will compete with Periscope and Facebook Live. “We’ve been offering live streaming on YouTube since 2011, before it was cool,” the blog post publicizing the news began, which sounds an awful lot like the rationalization of a company that…

Tech News Sophie Kleeman Jun 24

North Dakota Cops Are Periscoping Traffic Stops and It’s Not Going Well

Police in Fargo, North Dakota have started livestreaming traffic stops via Periscope in an experiment for all the world to see. And so far, it’s been an embarrassing failure. But the Fargo PD doesn’t see it that way. “We just learned about the app a couple of nights ago so we thought, ‘let’s just get…

Tech News Matt Novak Aug 21

Silicon Valley Had Exactly the Right Ending This Season

“Two Day of the Condor” is one of the strongest episodes of Silicon Valley yet, turning California labor law and server stability into compelling television. It didn’t have the equivalent of last year’s perfect dick joke, but it had something better: Dramatic tension, and sweet lady justice. Last week, Richard admitted that he used a…

Television Kate Knibbs Jun 15

Meerkat and Periscope Can Really Chew Through Your Precious Data

New livestreaming apps Meerkat and Periscope help people share snippets of their lives—but they also gobble down data. Enough data that you might blow past your data cap. If you’re serious about streaming, you might need a bigger data plan! When we put both apps to the test, we measured usage of over 250 megabytes…

Tech News Kate Knibbs Mar 31

Rumor: YouTube Close To Adding Live-Streaming Functionality?

After live-streaming U2 concerts, Indian cricket and even Tiger Woods’ confession, it looks like YouTube might be close to opening up live-streaming for all. Screenshots of a new YouTube toolbar with ‘Live Stream’ added suggest so, anyway. TechCrunch spotted the toolbar addition on a YouTube employee’s help page, so it’s possible this employee uses it…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jun 4

Cerevo Cam Now Supports Ustream Life-Casting—US Release This Summer

Japanese maker CEREVO’s innovative product should’ve really gone on sale a couple of years ago when iJustine and co were at their peak, but I do appreciate a good camera with a unique twist—in this case, Ustream support. While it’s only available in Japan for now, a western-world release is slated for this coming summer.…

Tech News Kat Hannaford May 19

VTubing Is More Than Just Livestreaming With Cute Anime Avatars

Microsoft Is Killing Mixer and Moving Everything to Facebook Gaming

Microsoft Snipes Another Streamer From Twitch as Shroud Moves to Mixer

I Liked Something Online Today

Internet Celebrity Imprisoned for Short, Goofy Rendition of China’s National Anthem

Let’s All Be Charmed by This Chinese Man Who Makes a Living Live-Streaming Farming

Users Looking for Child Pornography Are Gathering on Periscope, Twitter’s Forgotten Video Service

House GOP Passes New Rules to Punish Livestreaming Protests from Congress

Why the Hell Did It Take So Long for YouTube to Do Live Streaming for Mobile?

North Dakota Cops Are Periscoping Traffic Stops and It’s Not Going Well

Silicon Valley Had Exactly the Right Ending This Season

Meerkat and Periscope Can Really Chew Through Your Precious Data

Rumor: YouTube Close To Adding Live-Streaming Functionality?

Cerevo Cam Now Supports Ustream Life-Casting—US Release This Summer

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