Livecast

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A webcast that is streamed live, often combined with an integrated chat forum for those watching.

    "Livecasts demonstrate the benefit of streaming technology. Listening to a one-hour livecast that is streamed to the user can be compared to a radio. As the livecast happens, it is streamed down and then becomes history."

Verb
  1. 1
    To create and broadcast a livecast.

    "For the first time, a joint press conference at the conclusion of the ECCU regional discussions was held at the ECCB and was livecast simultaneously to the press in all eight ECCU member jurisdictions (including Anguilla and Montserrat, the two non-Fund member territories of the United Kingdom)."

Example

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"Livecasts demonstrate the benefit of streaming technology. Listening to a one-hour livecast that is streamed to the user can be compared to a radio. As the livecast happens, it is streamed down and then becomes history."

Etymology

From live + -cast, from broadcast.

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