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Facebook Live Description

Facebook allows you to live stream a chat or show, Q&A or virtual event or sell products through a video. Facebook Live allows you to make connections and share experiences. You can live stream your Page, group or event via the Facebook app on your smartphone or with a camera and streaming software (also called an "encoder") Live Producer is the best choice if you want to broadcast live using a camera and an encoder. Live Producer will automatically redirect you to your desktop or laptop if you are going live from a computer. This is the same way you can go live on Facebook using higher-end streaming software and production equipment. Live polls allow you to create polls and share them with your fans during a broadcast.

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Reviews - 10 Verified Reviews

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Company Details

Company:
Meta
Year Founded:
2004
Headquarters:
United States
Website:
live.fb.com

Media

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Product Details

Platforms
SaaS
iPhone
iPad
Android
Customer Support
Online

Facebook Live Features and Options

Live Streaming Software

Access Control
Audience Analytics
Audience Engagement
Browser-based
Customizable Branding
Encoding
Event Scheduling
Live Streaming Production
Moderation
Monetization Tools
Multi-Screen / Split-Screen
Multiple Camera Feeds
Multistreaming
Session Recording
Social Media Integration
Streaming Platform Integration

Facebook Live Lists

Facebook Live User Reviews

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Marketing Analyst
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Yearly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Always adding new features

    Date: Sep 19 2021

    Summary: Overall, an easy-to-use live experience that makes it easy for others to interact with. I highly recommend this live experience.

    Positive: Facebook live is always adding new features from other live-streaming platforms so it's always up to date with the latest trends.

    Negative: Sometimes there can be lag and delay, but that's usually due to connectivity issues with one's internet.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Digital Marketing Admin
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Monthly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1,000 - 4,999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Great for Customer Engagement and Interaction

    Date: Jun 11 2021

    Summary: Not applicable for every context, but a great avenue to provide unique content in real time and share experiences with customers.

    Positive: Love how you press one button and are able to broadcast live to all of your Facebook followers. Ability to receive feedback and answer customer questions in real time is priceless in the digital environment.

    Negative: Choppy internet connection can affect the quality of stream. Content must be consistently engaging to keep followers on the stream.

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  • Name: Rishikesh M.
    Job Title: Software Engineer
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Large Scale Brodcasting

    Date: Dec 24 2020

    Summary: No other platform is as big as Facebook provides for broadcasting. Live streaming medium for international broadcasting.

    Positive: Very easy to broadcast to a live audience on the largest scale possible. Have a great audience reach.

    Negative: The support feature provided by Facebook can be improved.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
    Length of product use: Less than 6 months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 5,000 - 9,999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Good for general livestreaming

    Date: Aug 29 2020

    Summary: Facebook Live is one of the number of features on the social media platform Facebook. It can be used by anyone to go live from anywhere make it widely accessible and easy to use for general public.

    Positive: Simple as it Works from within Facebook.
    Easy to get audience.
    Works from both desktop and mobile.
    Supports multi stream softwares like Restream.

    Negative: No analytics feature.
    Full of low quality streams ( content wise ).

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  • Name: Chet N.
    Job Title: Ceo
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Monthly
    Role: User, Administrator
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Great!

    Date: May 05 2020

    Summary: Overall I'd recommend that any business owner uses Facebook Live often to engage with their following.

    Positive: Great way to engage with your page followers and to interest them in immediate information with your business.

    Negative: None that I can think of right now as it's easy to use.

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  • Name: Harrizon R.
    Job Title: Technical Support Analyst
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    A good one available to keep business activities functional

    Date: Dec 07 2020

    Summary: Facebook Live was really crucial. Being able to relay activity solutions from anywhere during quarantine, as well as continuing to do so after the quarantine has increased, has in fact been a substantial property for our company. In addition, it offers us an easy-to-use mentoring approach, so site visitors can inspect us before speaking in person.

    Positive: It is easy to use in the application or with a computer system internet browser, and also quite reliable. Furthermore, the analysis and metrics offered are extremely valuable, as well as allowing you to customize your discussion to better reach your target market. In addition, I particularly valued the choice of using a wireless microphone connected to a laptop for the programs; this has ensured that our visitors hear with exceptional quality.

    Negative: Sometimes it will certainly remove a longer webcast, however, there are ways to resolve this hassle. Analyzes are also not readily available on the mobile app, you can only access them on a computer system. Not a big problem, but it would certainly be appropriate to be able to consult them on the go, rather than having to wait until you are back at work.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Software Developer
    Length of product use: 1-2 Years
    Used How Often?: Monthly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 100 - 499
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Go Live on Facebook

    Date: Jul 15 2020

    Summary: Facebook Live is a live streaming feature built in Facebook itself. It is really simple to use and fulfills basic needs but lacks a host of features provided by other similar apps. The major plus point is that it is accessible from Facebook homepage but It needs a lot of work to challenge the likes of Instagram or YouTube Live.

    Positive: Easy to use.
    Works right from Facebook website or app itself.
    Decent video quality & low bandwidth usage.
    Watch party feature.

    Negative: Needs moderation on content .
    No innovative features.
    Doesn't not allow collaborative streaming - like Squad streaming feature of twitch.

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  • Name: Anonymous (Verified)
    Job Title: Business Analyst
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Yearly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 500 - 999
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Facebook Live - Review

    Date: Jun 13 2020

    Summary: Facebook Live is one of the first live streaming applications around the world. Facebook live is pretty good and you have many features to put filters in videos, hashtagging and live commenting, and many others. On the negative side, there is no way to stop malicious content being posted on Facebook live which is not a good sign. On an overall level, it is a very good way to interact with people.

    Positive: (+) Super easy platform, very good interface.
    (+) Has a lot of features like hashtags, filters for streaming video.
    (+) You can stream on both computers and laptops.
    (+) Better engagement with your followers, feedback, and many other advantages.

    Negative: (-) There is no way to stop malicious content being posted in live stream.
    (-) It becomes difficult to analyze all of the content flowing through your feed in live, you will have to go through comments manually.

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  • Name: Nitin C.
    Job Title: Student
    Length of product use: 6-12 Months
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User, Administrator
    Organization Size: 20,000 or More
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Audience builder tool

    Date: Apr 20 2020

    Summary: Overall it is good to built-in audience, encouraging people and also one can integrate with their workflow.

    Positive: Using Facebook Live API you can stream from high-quality cameras and integrate with your working staff.

    Negative: You can only search the content within Facebook itself.

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  • Name: Simon C.
    Job Title: Owner
    Length of product use: 2+ Years
    Used How Often?: Weekly
    Role: User
    Organization Size: 1 - 25
    Features
    Design
    Ease
    Pricing
    Support
    Likelihood to Recommend to Others
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

    Horrible for Small businesses

    Date: Jul 24 2023

    Summary: Terrible, it hides small businesses from their regular customers that WANT to see them. Myself and at least 15 other small business owners I know are being drowned because Facebook basically sabotages our accounts, even if we're paying an outrageous amount for their ads that don't work. Don't waste your time

    Positive: Easy to use when it actually works. Other than that not much is really good about it. It rarely does.

    Negative: No reach, viewers, visibility, hides comments, cuts out, kicks off viewers, cuts out sound.

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