TikTok’s reside video push continues with new options for creators and viewers

TikTok has introduced a slew of new live video features coming to the favored video app platform for each creators and viewers, together with scheduled “events,” picture-in-picture help for iOS and Android, and group livestreams with two customers. It’s a part of the corporate’s elevated efforts to push customers to create and watch live videos.

Plenty of the brand new options deliver TikTok’s reside platform as much as par with different reside video companies, including the power for creators to schedule a stream prematurely (which TikTok calls a “Live Event”) that viewers can register and obtain notifications for. Creators can even be capable of add countdown timers to common TikTok movies within the type of a sticker to assist promote their upcoming streams, too.

Also new is the power to co-host a livestream with a second particular person (though TechCrunch reports that TikTok is testing bigger shared streams for the longer term, too).

TikTok can also be increasing the rollout of its already introduced Q&A characteristic for reside movies to make it simpler for hosts to have interaction with viewers in the midst of a stream. In an analogous vein, although, TikTok is including new remark filtering choices to ban particular key phrases from reside chats, and the power to designate moderators who can ban and mute misbehaving viewers.

Lastly, the corporate is making it simpler to seek out and browse livesteams with a devoted “Live” button that’s already began rolling out to viewers’ feeds. TikTok additionally helps iOS and Android’s picture-in-picture modes, permitting you to proceed to observe TikTok livestreams even when not within the app.

TikTok’s livestreaming options are nonetheless comparatively new, particularly in comparison with trade mainstays like YouTube or Instagram, however the brand new options which can be rolling out immediately ought to assist the social video platform higher compete going ahead.