Introduction

Building interactive live streams into your app is hard. You need to combine many different elements, including audio, video, and interactive elements, into a single user experience. You will want to customize it with your unique value add, integrate your monetization strategy, and ensure it is reliable at scale. HotMic provide a complete toolset to launch creator-led live streams into your app with ease.

HotMic customers use the following components to launch a live-streaming product in their apps.

  1. Easy to use SDKs for installation in your IOS, Android, and web properties.
  2. Customized white label live streaming production studio with:
    • Tools to onboard content creators
    • Live streaming production for your content creators
    • Monitoring and management tools for producers
  3. Management tools for admins to manage users and measure results

Quick and easy POC

HotMic allows companies to set up a proof of concept free of charge. Since HotMic is designed to be configured to your needs, it's best to chat with our team first. The typical steps are:

  1. HotMic provisions a white-label portal with your feature requirements
  2. You install a sample app
  3. Go live from your portal into your sample app to test features

Definitions

  • Organizations - This can be your entire companey or specific groups with access to specific tools.
  • Sub-Organizations (optional) - These are typically teams or sub-brands.
  • Organization administrators - These are typically producers or other administrators of themes.
  • Creators - These are typically those making the content on the streams.
  • Streams - These are what the creator makes, and consist of many possible elements. Creators can use:
    • Creator Audio/Video - Creators can themselves be present in a stream with audio or audio/video.
    • Shared Media - Hosts can share content from their computer or from a shared CMS with video, images, overlays, or even live sports content
    • Guest Audio/VideoChat - Users can request to join a host live via video or audio
    • Chat - complete with moderation, emoticons, replies, and reporting
    • Polls - Producer or host created polls
    • Contests - A real time leaderboard can be added for polls with correct answers
    • Ads - Banner ads can be added manually or via GoogleAd Server
    • Products (Live Shopping) - A product catalog can be pulled in from Shopify
    • Tips or donations - this can be enabled by creator, by stream, or for an entire org
  • Viewers - These are the people watching a stream. Viewers can interact with all the elemement above based on how the stream is set up.