Livestorm
 | |
| Developer(s) | Livestorm, SAS |
|---|---|
| Initial release | February 2016 |
| Written in | Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Vue.js, GraphQL |
| Operating system | Web-based |
| Available in | 25 languages |
List of languages English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian, Vietnamese, Arabic, Austrian German, Swiss, Finnish, Greek, Lithuanian, Japanese, Croatian, Slovenian, Czech | |
| Type | Web conferencing, Video conferencing |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | livestorm |
Livestorm is a browser based online web conferencing software used to share real-time live streams. It can be used to power remote live meetings, product demos, sales webinars, online lessons, onboarding sessions, more.[1][2][3]
History
Livestorm was founded in Paris, France in 2016[4] by Gilles Bertaux, Robin Lambert, Vincent Garreau and Tom Forlini.[5]
Technology
Livestorm's core is focused on leveraging WebRTC and Web Sockets for real time, low-latency interactions.[6] The video stream quality and format automatically adapts to each viewers' web browser. The stream serves a WebRTC stream for compatible browsers including Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera, with a fall back on HLS on Internet Explorer and Safari.
The frontend runs on the Vue.js framework.[7]
Editions and features
Livestorm comes with HD webinar and video streaming, screensharing, browser-based webinars, text chat for participants, text Q&A for participants, polls during webinars, custom registration page, replay available for streaming or download, inviting guest presenters to the stage, sharing documents via upload, Iframe, or YouTube embeds, multi-language support, recurring events.
It also provides features for marketing: creating a custom registration form embeddable on any page, source tracking, analytics report, replay analytics, email invitation supporting variables using the Liquid templating engine, registrant profiles.
See also
References
- ^ "Livestorm, la startup qui facilite l'organisation de vos conférences virtuelles". Maddyness.
- ^ "5 outils pour rendre vos réunions (vraiment) plus productives". Maddyness.
- ^ "The State of B2B France's Tech in 2017". G2 Crowd.
- ^ "13 WebEx Alternatives for Hosting an Extraordinary Webinar". Capterra.
- ^ "Livestorm information on Crunchbase". Crunchbase.
- ^ "Real-time video streaming: Who Needs It and Why?". Tokbox.
- ^ Guillaume Chau (28 February 2018). Apollo, GraphQL and Vue the ultimate stack.
{{cite conference}}: Unknown parameter|publicationdate=ignored (|publication-date=suggested) (help)