Bigo Live - Live Streaming App

Bigo Live is a live streaming platform with more than seven hundred million users, covering both sides of the exchange: watching and broadcasting. As a viewer you find streams around the clock across chatting, singing, dancing, gaming and whatever else people choose to do on camera, with the selection matched to what you have watched before. The appeal of live over recorded video is that it is happening now and you can affect it. Comments are read out, requests are answered and a room responds to who is in it, which makes watching participatory rather than passive. That is also why streams have communities of regulars rather than audiences. Interaction goes beyond comments. Video chats, voice calls and interactive games let you engage directly rather than only through a chat window, which is where friendships on the platform actually form. Broadcasting yourself is the other half, and Bigo Live is built to make starting straightforward: go live, find an audience and build a following over time. Streamers can earn through the platform's gifting system, which is how the economics work here and on every similar service. It is free to watch and free to broadcast, with virtual gifts and premium features paid for.