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Periscope
Original author(s)Kayvon Beykpour
Joe Bernstein
Aaron Wasserman
Tyler Hansen
Geraint Davies[1]
Developer(s)Twitter
Initial release26 March 2015; 9 years ago (2015-03-26)
Operating systemiOS, tvOS, Android
Available inEnglish
TypeVideo streaming
Social networking service
Websitewww.periscope.tv

Periscope is a live video streaming app for iOS and Android developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein.

Beykpour and Bernstein came up with the idea for Periscope while traveling abroad in 2013. Beykpour was in Istanbul when protests broke out in Taksim Square. He wanted to see what was happening there, so he turned to Twitter. While he could read about the protests, he could not see them.[2]

They started the company in February 2014, under the name Bounty.[3] They raised $1.5 million from Founder Collective, Scott Belsky, Maveron, Google Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Bessemer, Stanford – StartX and Sam Shank in April 2014.[4]

Periscope was acquired January 2015 by Twitter before the product had been publicly launched. One investor source says the acquisition amount was "sizeable", above $50 million. Another says it fell between $75 and $100 million. A third says the deal was "small-ish".[5]

The acquisition was officially announced in a tweet from Periscope and retweeted by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on March 13 after the rival video streaming app Meerkat was a breakout hit at South by Southwest 2015 (March 13-17).[6][7][8] Meerkat became the talk of SXSW partially due to Twitter cutting Meerkat off from its social graph just as the festival was starting.[9]

Periscope was launched on March 26, 2015.[10][11] Later, on May 26, 2015, Periscope was released for Android.[12]

On August 12, 2015, it was announced that Periscope had surpassed 10 million accounts, just four months after it was launched. It was noted that over 40 years of video was being watched per day.[13] On December 9, 2015, Apple named Periscope as the iPhone App of the Year.[14]

Periscope was featured on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" with Kayvon Beykpour as a guest on December 18, 2015. In addition to sharing the inspiration for Periscope, its sale history included meeting Periscope's mission, which was to get it into as many hands as possible, thus Twitter. Beykpour gave Colbert a one-on-one tutorial, which was recorded live then edited for its showing three hours later.

Service

Periscope users have the option to tweet out a link to their Live Stream.[15] They can also choose whether or not to make their video public or viewable to only certain users.[16] Scopes can be LBB (Limited by Broadcaster) which disallows comments.

Periscope allows viewers to send "hearts" to the broadcaster by tapping on the mobile screen as a form of appreciation. Up to 500 hearts can be given per session and users can log out and log back in to give more hearts.[citation needed] The maximum number of users that can be followed is 8,000.[17]

Both the scoper and viewers of the scope are able to block viewers. When blocked by the scoper, users are added to a blocked list, and booted from the scope. If enough scopers block a user, they are blocked from the scope. [citation needed]

On September 8, 2015, Techcrunch reported and later confirmed that Periscope was building an AppleTV app.[18] On September 10, 2015, Periscope added the ability to broadcast live in landscape view.[19]

As actress Alyssa Milano autographs copies of her graphic novel during an appearance at Midtown Comics in Manhattan, her assistant, Kelly Kall (left foreground) streams video of the event on Periscope.

The app can be misappropriated for video piracy, an issue that came to the forefront around the time of the app's launch when several users of the service used it to air the fifth season premiere of HBO's Game of Thrones live; that network made the claim that the service needed better tools and policies to deal with copyrighted content.[20]

These issues were magnified further by a professional boxing event on May 2, 2015, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao, which was televised via a pay per view that cost approximately US$90, but was widely pirated through streams of various quality on Periscope.[21][22][23] Periscope's terms of service specifies that rebroadcasting copyrighted content violates the service's TOS, and can result in suspension or banning the offending account.[24]

Other complaints have come from firms acting on behalf of the NFL, the United Kingdom's Premier League, the U.S. Open Tennis Championship and Taylor Swift, according to data from Chilling Effects, which tracks online takedown notices and was started by attorney Wendy Seltzer, several law school clinics and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

The Ultimate Fighting Championship, which has kept a close eye on people it believes are illegally streaming its pay-per-view mixed martial arts matches, has sent more than 650 takedown notices to Periscope, according to data from Chilling Effects.[25]

Periscope Summits

A New York summit was held September 22-25, 2015.[26] The New York summit had popular scopers Tasmin Lucia-Khan, Alex Pettitt, Alex Khan, Amanda Oleander and Bree Olson and Brian Fanzo was a Keynote speaker.[27]

A second summit was held Jan. 14-17, 2016 in San Francisco. Nearly 1,000 Scopers converged at the Park Central Hotel. During the conference, it was announced that Periscope Summit was officially changing its name to Summit Live, to represent the entirety of the live-streaming community. The conference was co-hosted by Brian Fanzo and Tasmin Lucia-Khan, and included keynote speeches from Joel Comm, Shawn Thomas, Africa Miranda, Kim Garst, AJ Joshi and others. Speakers included Amanda Oleander, Robert Scoble, Geoff Golberg, Caleb Maddix, John "Chocolate Johnny" Kapos, Shaan Puri, Alex Pettitt, Alex Khan and nearly 100 others.

It was announced later in January 2016, via Periscope, that future conferences would continue to be held in San Francisco, including Summit Live 2017, scheduled for Feb. 9-12.

The summits are organized by Ryan A. Bell.

Scope Day

On November 7, 2015, 56 broadcasters in 37 cities on 6 continents showcased destinations in their respective cities/countries over the course of 16 hours. All broadcasts were saved to a custom page at: katch.me/pages/scopeday. [28]

Resources

Although scopes disappear from www.periscope.tv/username after 24 hours[citation needed], users can capture their scopes, and other live streaming apps, using Katch.me.[29] A television channel based around Periscope is PeriscopeTV [17]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Periscope: Anglesey man behind video streaming app". BBC News. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  2. ^ Shontell, Alyson (26 March 2015). "What it's like to sell your startup for ~$120 million before it's even been launched: Meet Twitter's new prized possession, Periscope". Business Insider. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Product Hunt Live". 27 August 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Periscope". angel.co.
  5. ^ Shontell, Alyson (9 March 2015). "Twitter quietly bought a video startup that hasn't been launched yet, Periscope". Business Inseder. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  6. ^ Koh, Yoree; Rusli, Evelyn M. (9 March 2015). "Twitter Acquires Live-Video Streaming Startup Periscope". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  7. ^ Hachman, Mark (13 March 2015). "Twitter buys Periscope as its livestreaming response to Meerkat". PCWorld. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  8. ^ "Periscope on Twitter". Twitter.
  9. ^ Bohn, Dieter (13 March 2015). "Twitter cuts Meerkat off from its social graph just as SXSW gets started". The Verge. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  10. ^ Pierce, David (26 March 2015). "Twitter's Periscope App Lets You Livestream Your World". Wired. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  11. ^ Weil, Kevin (26 March 2015). "Introducing Periscope". Twitter Blog. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
  12. ^ Baldwin, Roberto (26 May 2015). "Twitter finally launches Periscope for Android". Engadget. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  13. ^ "Periscope, by the Numbers". Medium. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
  14. ^ Warren, Christina (9 December 2015). "Apple names the best iOS apps of 2015". Mashable. Archived from the original on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2015. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ "Twitter's Launches Periscope, Its Own Live Video Streaming App". Eyerys.
  16. ^ Segall, Laurie. "Meerkat who? Introducing Periscope". CNN. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
  17. ^ a b "PeriscopeTV".
  18. ^ Josh Constine. "Periscope Is Secretly Building An Apple TV App". TechCrunch. AOL.
  19. ^ "Periscope goes wide with new 'Landscape' streaming feature". CNET. CBS Interactive. 10 September 2015.
  20. ^ ""Game of Thrones" hit by piracy from Periscope". CBS News. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  21. ^ "Periscope Piracy Sets Up Grudge Match: Hollywood vs. Twitter". Variety. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  22. ^ "Periscope proves a new method for pirating Mayweather-Pacquiao". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  23. ^ Warren, Christina. "I watched the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight on Periscope and saw the future". Mashable. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  24. ^ Kastrenakes, Jacob. "HBO says Periscope could be a tool for 'mass copyright infringement'". The Verge. Retrieved 15 April 2015.
  25. ^ "Anti-Piracy Battle Unfolds in Real Time on Periscope". Mercury News. Retrieved 22 December 2015.
  26. ^ "Exclusive: Periscope users conference set for SF, NYC as app expands to Android". siliconbeat. Retrieved 26 May 2015.
  27. ^ "Periscope Is A Bigger Opportunity Than Twitter Itself". Seeking Alpha. Retrieved 19 November 2015.
  28. ^ "Scope Day on Katch".
  29. ^ "Katch".
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