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Meerkat Cameo — Invite viewers to take over your stream
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we just tried it in the PH office. it's a lot of fun. love that it's only 60 seconds. just enough time to share something. 👍killer new feature.
I saw a few pushes today from my friends who were making cameo's. Would be cool if the push came maybe 30 seconds before the cameo starts, so I'd have time to see my friends (maybe it already does 😃)
Once brands and celebrities take this into effect, there will be a lot of opportunity. Can't wait to see how the feature is adopted and all the creative ways influencers take advantage of it. Look out Periscope!, Meerkat ain't messing around :)
Congrats Ben and team. Well done!
congrats @benrbn and the team!
My dream Cameo is Tom Cruise - I had a crush on him when I was 8 y/o while watching Top Gun - so I ended up marrying a pilot ;) Bring Tom!
This has been an Epic week on Product Hunt, and this release is Huge! I can literally see this in every industry. How awesome would it be to have sports commentary from the athletes playing the game or if the @potus jumped on when regarding issues of national concern. My Dream Cameo would definitely be @tferriss
I’m really stoked to introduce Cameo, a new feature we’ve been working on for the last couple of months. Cameo lets the broadcaster invite viewers to take over their stream for up to 60 seconds. Meerkat is all about powerful spontaneous shared experiences, and Cameo is the strongest manifestation of this vision we've introduced yet. It's also just the beginning.
We’ve been quietly testing it out the past few weeks and it’s really fun — changes the whole dynamic of the stream.
We’ll streaming all day today from @AppMeerkat, tune in and we’ll cameo you in! #CameoParty 😎
I’d love to hear who your dream Cameo would be? Any feedback you have or what you think an interesting cameo use case could be. Leave your comments here.
As a bonus in this update… we’re introducing Facebook graph so you can extend your meerkat network to those you’re friends with or pages you follow on Facebook.
Hats down to @benrbn and team! Brilliant advancement to a great experience. Would love to be able to control the duration (60,90,120 sec) #ROCKON #meerkat
This is a really smart and powerfull feature that is going to be a key changer for people / brands who actually want to push participation a step forward. Huge win to choosing Meerkat over Periscope. You guys are totally reinforcing the Fear Of Missing Out trend and creating your own "Now Or Never" ;)
This looks so cool! My mind is currently exploding thinking of the possibilities.
@benrbn @jsneedles does this show the main stream and the cameo top and bottom (would be great for conversations), or does the cameo take over the entire screen?
I see Product Hunt has an upcoming community cameos stream scheduled. @rrhoover, what do you envision using cameos for?
@ninjudd we're always excited to experiment with new apps and ways to hang with the Product Hunt community. My first Meerkat stream was a walkthrough preview of an unreleased design update to producthunt.com on a Sunday afternoon. Hundreds of people joined instantly and provided feedback in real-time. Cameo will be a much more engaging and fun opportunity to do something similar and give some cool folks an opportunity to share their voice and thoughts.
There's a lot we can do. Maybe we should do Cameo elevator pitches. Other ideas? 😉
@benrbn Yeah. The latency is going to be challenging for interactive cameos. Perhaps using WebRTC to send the video peer-to-peer with the cameo guest and broadcasting the combined video from the stream owner's device would work.
@bentossell i think its a clever product :) but yeah it's a bit weird. we can learn a lot from how YY keeps people engaged and has strong community, same as YouNow. Great products that deal with live video and large communities in a unique way.
The first time I saw Meerkat it gave me the feeling it had contributed something different to online communication. It continues to revolutionize what was once just webinars, but is now a new arm of social media.
Love it!
Hey Ben + Meerkat team, congrats on the success you have earned so far! I've been following your journey from day 1 and it's been a pleasure to watch you guys grow and expand the app. Can you speak a bit more about the 60 second limitation for Cameo and why you chose to do it that way? I've thought about this feature for a while and envisioned a team of journalists such as the good folks at Mashable or TheVerge sharing a single broadcast between multiple journalists at the same time from different locations or offices. Another good example would be streaming Product Hunt events - if there are 50 events going on at the same time in different cities, it would be interesting if the original broadcaster could allow others from different cities to take over the broadcast and show us their perspective.
The name Cameo fits perfectly with the 60 second limitation, so kudos on the branding - but personally I think the feature is bigger than simply allowing someone to make a brief appearance. Would you say this is just an experiment for now? @benrbn
@madebyildi we start simple. the biggest lesson we learnt from @yevvo (live video product that can tweet live video to twitter, built by MK team) is that simple wins. 60 seconds is an appetizer to a whole radical vision of deeper human connection that happens in real time and in massive scale.
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