Seizing on the rise of Meerkat and Periscope, GLOW – a New York-based digital marketing and creative agency – has developed two destination sites that aggregate content from the live streaming platforms. MeerkatStreams and OnPeriscope, which officially launched last week, are designed to organize what can be an overwhelming amount of content in-app. MeerkatStreams also has a DVR feature that allows viewers to record future broadcasts.
“What YouTube did for web video content and what Vine did for social short form content, we believe MeerkatStreams will do for live streaming, said Peter Levin, CEO and co-founder of GLOW. And while still young, the space already has credibility; Madonna, NY Daily News, Mashable, Disney, NHL, other TV networks have all jumped on board and are broadcasting regularly. We’re on the cusp of a whole new movement and shift in broadcasting, which the new Live Video Recorder for MeerkatStreams fits in to so viewers can record upcoming streams even if they aren’t available to watch live.”
Levin may be overzealous, but both OnPeriscope and MeerkatStreams are certainly good efforts to sift through the noise. At this point, though, Meerkat and Twitter are almost certainly working on enhancing their own YouTube-like aggregators for the content being created on their platforms.
By registering on MeerkatStreams.com through Facebook or Twitter, viewers can set recordings by person, type of content and times, and have access to unlimited recording, unlimited queue, up to 60 minutes of recording per video as well as full chat transcripts of recorded videos.
