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.
- Easy to use SDKs for installation in your IOS, Android, and web properties.
- 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
- Management tools for admins to manage users and measure results
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:
- HotMic provisions a white-label portal with your feature requirements
- You install a sample app
- Go live from your portal into your sample app to test features
- 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.