Periscope (app)

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Periscope
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Example of live stream being broadcast on Periscope for Android
Original author(s) Kayvon Beykpour
Joe Bernstein
Aaron Wasserman
Tyler Hansen
Geraint Davies[1]
Developer(s) Twitter
Initial release 26 March 2015; 9 years ago (2015-03-26) 1 year ago
Development status Active
Written in Go (server-side)[2]
Operating system iOS, tvOS, Android
Available in Multilingual[3]
Type Video streaming
Social networking service
Website www.periscope.tv

Periscope is a live video streaming app for iOS and Android developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein and acquired by Twitter before launch in 2015.

History

Beykpour and Bernstein came up with the idea for Periscope while traveling abroad in 2013. Beykpour was in Istanbul when protests broke out in Taksim Square. He wanted to see what was happening there, so he turned to Twitter. While he could read about the protests, he could not see them.[4]

They started the company in February 2014, under the name Bounty.[5] They raised $1.5 million from Founder Collective, Scott Belsky, Maveron, Google Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Bessemer, Stanford – StartX and Sam Shank in April 2014.[6]

Periscope was acquired January 2015 by Twitter before the product had been publicly launched. One investor source says the acquisition amount was "sizeable", above $50 million. Another says it fell between $75 and $100 million. A third says the deal was "small-ish".[7]

The acquisition was officially announced in a tweet from Periscope and retweeted by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on March 13 after the rival video streaming app Meerkat was a breakout hit at South by Southwest 2015 (March 13–17).[8][9][10] Meerkat became the talk of SXSW partially due to Twitter cutting Meerkat off from its social graph just as the festival was starting.[11]

Periscope was launched on March 26, 2015.[12][13] Later, on May 26, 2015, Periscope was released for Android.[14]

On August 12, 2015, Periscope announced that it had surpassed 10 million accounts, four months after it was launched. At the same time, the company noted that the amount of video being watched had reached a level of "40 years per day".[15] On December 9, 2015, Apple named Periscope as the iPhone App of the Year.[16] On January 26, 2016, the company released an update that allows users to stream live from GoPro.[17]

In April 2016, as part of a wider partnership with Twitter to stream selected Thursday Night Football games, the NFL announced that Periscope would feature ancillary behind the scenes content from these games.[18]

Service

Periscope users have the option to tweet out a link to their Live Stream.[19] They can also choose whether or not to make their video public or viewable to only certain users.[20] Scopes can be LBB (Limited by Broadcaster) which disallows comments.

Periscope allows viewers to send "hearts" to the broadcaster by tapping on the mobile screen as a form of appreciation. Up to 500 hearts can be given per session and users can log out and log back in to give more hearts.[citation needed] The maximum number of users that can be followed is 8,000.[21]

Both the scoper and viewers of the scope are able to block viewers. When blocked by the scoper, users are added to a blocked list, and booted from the scope. If enough scopers block a user, they are blocked from the scope.[citation needed]

On September 8, 2015, Techcrunch reported and later confirmed that Periscope was building an AppleTV app.[22] On September 10, 2015, Periscope added the ability to broadcast live in landscape view.[23]

Copyright issues

As actress Alyssa Milano autographs copies of her graphic novel during an appearance at Midtown Comics in Manhattan, her assistant, Kelly Kall (left foreground) streams video of the event on Periscope.

The app can be misappropriated for copyright infringement, an issue that came to the forefront around the time of the app's launch when several users of the service used it to air the fifth season premiere of HBO's Game of Thrones live; that network made the claim that the service needed better tools and policies to deal with copyrighted content.[24]

These issues were magnified further by a professional boxing event on May 2, 2015, Floyd Mayweather, Jr. vs. Manny Pacquiao, which was televised via a pay per view that cost approximately US$90, but saw wide unauthorized distribution through streams of various quality on Periscope.[25][26][27] Periscope's terms of service specifies that rebroadcasting copyrighted content violates the service's TOS, and can result in suspension or banning the offending account.[28]

Other complaints have come from firms acting on behalf of the NFL, the Premier League, the U.S. Open Tennis Championship and Taylor Swift, according to data from Chilling Effects, which tracks online takedown notices and was started by attorney Wendy Seltzer, several law school clinics and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.[citation needed] The Ultimate Fighting Championship, which has kept a close eye on people it believes are illegally streaming its pay-per-view mixed martial arts matches, has sent more than 650 takedown notices to Periscope, according to data from Chilling Effects.[29]

TV Channel

In August, 2015 the first TV like channel launched on Periscope. Parachute TV was created by Caroline Lesley, Jon Erlichman & Seth Cohen. The channel features 50 shows a week from over 100 creators complete with a "TV guide." Parachute TV has everything from cooking shows, crafting, comedy, red carpets, breaking news to puppets. http://www.parachutetv.com


On February 11th 2016 Parachute TV won the Digital Entertainment World (DEW) Startup Award beating out 200 other entries and 12 finalists.

Events

#Perigiving

On Saturday December 5th, 2015 ParachuteTV (Periscopes first TV like Network) hosted an all-day event in collaboration with Roker Live (Al Rokers company) on @ParachuteTV1 dedicated to charity and the spirit of giving. They teamed up with charities like Make A Wish & Project Nautilus, which is a non-profit with the goal of breaking the world record for longest saltwater scuba dive...and in the process, raise $1 million for Make-a-Wish. Other charities that were involved included Treats 4 Toys (Kelloggs Rice Krispies), Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation and Feeding America. http://www.parachutetv.com/perigiving/

Periscope Summits

A New York summit was held September 22–25, 2015.[30] The New York summit had popular scopers Jon Erlichman, Tasmin Lucia-Khan, Alex Pettitt, Alex Khan, Amanda Oleander and Bree Olson and Brian Fanzo was a Keynote speaker.[31] Another Summit was held in San Francisco in January 2016 and had popular scopers Jon Erlichman, Caroline Lesley (Co-Creators of Parachute TV), Grace Smith, Jason Stolken and many others speak.

Scope Day

On November 7, 2015, 56 broadcasters in 37 cities on 6 continents showcased destinations in their respective cities/countries over the course of 16 hours. All broadcasts were saved to a custom page at: katch.me/pages/scopeday.[32] The creator of Scope Day is Mike Lin who created the event in a Bipolar state of mind. Issac Duckett, the CEO of SCL Brands / Slickchix acquired the rights to Scope Day in December of 2015 with plans to create Scope Day Live Expos in major cities.

Coopie Awards

The 1st annual Periscope Awards will be held on Sat, April 2nd 2016 and are presented by Slick Chix Lifestyle and iCom solutions group.

Resources

Although scopes disappear from www.periscope.tv/username after 24 hours,[citation needed] users were able capture their scopes, and other live streaming apps, using Katch.me. It stopped collecting videos on April 22, 2016 and shut down on May 4, 2016.[33] A television channel based around Periscope is PeriscopeTV [21]

See also

References

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