Livestorm

Livestorm
Livestorm logo
Developer(s) Livestorm, SAS
Initial release February 2016 (2016-02)
Written in Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Vue.js
Operating system Web-based
Available in 14 languages
List of languages
English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Korean, Russian, Danish, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Norwegian, Italian
Type Web conferencing, Video conferencing
License Proprietary
Website livestorm.co

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

  1. ↑ "Livestorm, la startup qui facilite l'organisation de vos conférences virtuelles". Maddyness.
  2. ↑ "5 outils pour rendre vos réunions (vraiment) plus productives". Maddyness.
  3. ↑ "The State of B2B France's Tech in 2017". G2 Crowd.
  4. ↑ "13 WebEx Alternatives for Hosting an Extraordinary Webinar". Capterra.
  5. ↑ "Livestorm information on Crunchbase". Crunchbase.
  6. ↑ "Real-time video streaming: Who Needs It and Why?". Tokbox.
  7. ↑ Guillaume Chau (28 February 2018). Apollo, GraphQL and Vue the ultimate stack.
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