Advantages of Periscope – Ecuavisa

Four months after its launch, the application to broadcast live video Periscope has already exceeded 10 million registered users.

This was confirmed by the company, owned by Twitter, and published statistics to celebrate what he considers a “milestone”.

The app was released last March for Apple iPhone smart phone, and weeks later, in May, for the Android operating system.

It allows any user to broadcast live or livestreaming images taken with your smartphone to other users Periscope.

And also promote the issue in the social network Twitter to attract more viewers.

It allows any user to broadcast live or livestreaming captured images

with your smartphone to other users Periscope.

As a result, and according to its figures, has about two million daily active users and those displayed in that period totaling 40 hours of video.

“Time display is what concerns us most. It’s what best reflects the value we are creating for the people and the world. Success for broadcasters is a longer view of emissions, “said the company.

But despite its success, this application is not alone when streaming from cake.

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The video site YouTube has also moved in this field with Live.

But its main competitor is Meerkat.

was released shortly before Periscope and in the first weeks grew to 700,000 users. By May already had two million, but since then has not published any statistics.

And these two were just joined Facebook, adding the live option (live) to your app Mentions.

Its main Meerkat competitor is.

In principle this new functionality was aimed at celebrities, so they could interact with their followers, but according to the digital medium specializing Mashable, Facebook aims to extend to all its users.

The broadcast is therefore very appealing to tech giants.

A Periscope for now seems to be going well, and we explain why.

Advantages of Periscope

1. Periscope transmissions can be displayed in both a Web browser and Twitter. And this integration allows users of the social network also connect to your transmission, thus multiplying the displays.

2. Enables privacy control. You can choose to broadcast live only visible to your contacts or the public.

Periscope save the video for 24 hours.

3. Upon completion of the streaming , the video may be in the application for users who could not see the live do so in within 24 hours.

4. With the button location you can put a geotag or geo tag your video. And this same lets you discover content depending on the area in which it was created.

and disadvantages

1. Integration with Twitter also a disadvantage, or at least an added obligation. And you need an account on the social network support for Periscope.

2. also Periscope only reports of transmissions in Twitter, but not on other social networks, as Facebook, or the app WhatsApp instant messaging and free.

3. Start a streamingtarda up to 10 seconds , depending on the internet speed that is available. And although it seems a short time, it can be vital in the live broadcast of an unrepeatable event.

4. If you use often without connecting to a wireless Internet network, consume a lot of data from your cell phone contract.

In some live broadcasts a delay of 10 seconds can be vital.

According to the report 10 Hot Summer Trends for 2015 (10 trends for summer 2015) prepared by the department ConsumerLab Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson, in five years will be consumed more hours of streaming content in a conventional manner.

Who knows who then lead these broadcasts.

But for the time being headed Periscope the list.