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Livestorm is a browser based online web conferencing software used to share real-time live streams. It can be used to power remote live meetings, product demos, sales webinars, online lessons, onboarding sessions, more.

History
Livestorm was founded in Paris, France in 2016 by Gilles Bertaux, Robin Lambert, Vincent Garreau and Tom Forlini. It was born from the idea that web conferencing and webinar softwares could benefit from the WebRTC technology to provide a no-download, in-browser experience for participants. Other areas of improvements were addressed early on such as integrating the software with existing marketing platforms

Technology
Livestorm's core is focused on leveraging WebRTC and Web Sockets for real time, low-latency interactions. The video stream quality and format automatically adapts to each viewers' web browser to improve compatibility with all modern devices and browsers. The stream serves a WebRTC stream for compatible browsers including Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera, with a fall back on HLS on Internet Explorer and Safari.

The frontend runs on the Vue.js framework.

Editions and features
Livestorm comes with all the basic webinar UX requirements including: HD webinar and video streaming, Screensharing, Browser-based webinars, Text chat for participants, text Q&A for participants, Polls during webinars, Custom registration page, Replay available for streaming or download, inviting Guest presenters to the stage, sharing documents via upload, Iframe, or Youtube embeds, Multi-language support, recurring events.

It also provides features for marketing: Creating a custom registration form embeddable on any page, Source tracking, Analytics Report, Replay analytics, Email invitation supporting variables using the Liquid templating engine, Registrant profiles.