Vine Creators Announce Live Video Streaming App 'Hype'

[MacRumors]

The creators of discontinued short-form video service Vine have announced a new live streaming app for iOS called Hype.

Hype will have to compete with existing live video streaming platforms including Periscope and Facebook Live, but its creators Colin Kroll and Rus Yusupov are betting on its success because it offers some additional features that the others don't have.

Going in its favor, Hype lets users add media to their live video streams, such as photos, music, and animated GIFs. Users can also play music from their iTunes library and choose themed backgrounds for their streams where text and emojis can be added.

Viewers meanwhile can comment on streams and participate in polls, while broadcasters can favorite comments, offering more interaction than Hype's rival live streaming platforms.

Twitter announced plans to shut down Vine last week. The social media company plans to discontinue the mobile app in the coming months, but did not give a specific timeline.

Hype is a free download for iPhone and iPad from the App Store. [Direct Link]

Article Link: Vine Creators Announce Live Video Streaming App 'Hype'

 

[Mac Fly (film)]

The worse the icon the more successful the app. It'll do great!

 

[Dilster3k]

Can someone please kill off Music.ly? It's the most insulting thing to mankind. #ripyouth

 

[Douglas B]

Who's paying the licence fees on the streamed music?

 

[ck2875]

Who's paying the licence fees on the streamed music?

That was my first thought. You would theoretically need a license to broadcast the song.
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The worse the icon the more successful the app. It'll do great!

It's just future-proofing themselves. When this app inevitably shuts down they can just rotate the eyes 45 degrees and the mouth 180 to signal it has died.

 

[miknos]

Almost as ugly as Instagram icon.

 

[adamjackson]

A live streaming application that only works on mobile? Good luck with that.

I'm not going to blow through my data, kill my battery life and hold my phone for hours while people deal with stuttering issues while my Verizon connection craps the bed. Why can't they just work with iSight and bring back Justin.TV? That's what everyone wants. I want to stream from my Mac where I have a good connection and no battery life issues.

 

[peterh988]

A live streaming application that only works on mobile? Good luck with that.

Oh, they work, just filled with 'wannabe famous' people with stupid hair doing the bottle flip challenge.

 

[bitslap47]

This just in:

In the past few hours, Hype was purchased by Twitter. Facebook and Periscope then added features to let users add media to their live video streams, such as photos, music, and animated GIFs. Users can also play music from their iTunes library and choose themed backgrounds for their streams where text and emojis can be added.

Twitter has now announced Hype will be shutting down in 30 days.

 

[Porco]

I wouldn't think Tumult Inc will be happy.
http://tumult.com/hype/

 

[duervo]

That icon looks like a member berry.

"Member when app icons didn't look so crappy?"
"Oooh, I member!"

 

[sudo1996]

Never name a company after teenager slang. You think it makes you look cool, but it doesn't.

 

[SeaFox]

Who's paying the licence fees on the streamed music?

That was my first thought. You would theoretically need a license to broadcast the song.

That wont be the app maker's problem.
Since it is technically possible to record your own music and have it in your iTunes library, they will just argue that was the true intent of the feature, regardless of the fact 99% of users will use copyrighted songs from their music libraries instead.

 

[pcmacgamer]

This won't be a success

 

[lolkthxbai]

Wow. I can't believe I've been beta testing this for several weeks now and I've been broadcasting with Colin and Rus without even knowing who they were :0

 

[Douglas B]

That wont be the app maker's problem.

I think it might be. Because YouTube has to deal with this.

And I'm not saying that YouTube always removes videos with someone else's music. I think they have a system to recognize music in a video and divert any income earned to the music publisher.

 

[petsounds]

This just in:

In the past few hours, Hype was purchased by Twitter. Facebook and Periscope then added features to let users add media to their live video streams, such as photos, music, and animated GIFs. Users can also play music from their iTunes library and choose themed backgrounds for their streams where text and emojis can be added.

Twitter has now announced Hype will be shutting down in 30 days.

Periscope is owned by Twitter.

 

[yillbs]

I think it might be. Because YouTube has to deal with this.

And I'm not saying that YouTube always removes videos with someone else's music. I think they have a system to recognize music in a video and divert any income earned to the music publisher.

YouTube hosts the music, they are in violation of digital milenial copywrite law, completely different set of rules over streaming.

 

[SeaFox]

YouTube hosts the music, they are in violation of digital milenial copywrite law, completely different set of rules over streaming.

YouTube hosts the music. They are in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It is a completely different set of rules for streaming.

The automatic spell checker included in all modern web browsers should have warned you about some of this before you posted it.

 

[bitslap47]

Periscope is owned by Twitter.

So was Vine

 

[yillbs]

YouTube hosts the music. They are in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It is a completely different set of rules for streaming.

The automatic spell checker included in all modern web browsers should have warned you about some of this before you posted it.

My phone didn't seem to notice. Also, it appears you were able to figure it out. That's a win in my book.

 

[petsounds]

So was Vine

So then you already know there's no reason for Twitter to buy Hype, as they already have a flourishing livestream service. Periscope is not going to be shut down because it has monetization potential; Vine was practically dead on arrival, at least as it existed as a separate service.

 

[bitslap47]

So then you already know there's no reason for Twitter to buy Hype, as they already have a flourishing livestream service. Periscope is not going to be shut down because it has monetization potential; Vine was practically dead on arrival, at least as it existed as a separate service.

Went way over your head.... it was sarcasm. Not serious in the least and was meant to make no sense. The acquisition and subsequent sunset patterns have become entertainment (to me at least.)