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Most video watched on the internet is recorded by a creator, uploaded to a viewing platform like Facebook or YouTube, and watched by the viewer when the viewer clicks “play.” This is called “on-demand video” and often referred to as VOD (video on-demand).

Livestreams, by contrast, are videos that are created and viewed live. The key components to livestreaming are that the video the creator appears in is being streamed in real time to the viewer, kind of like a Facetime call, and that there is interactivity happening between the creator and the viewer, usually through a chat window that the creator reads and verbally responds to as viewers post to it.

Technically, major concerts like Coachella are livestreamed on YouTube because the concert is happening as the viewers are watching it. For the sake of this conversation, we’ll refer to those as live broadcasts since there is often no interactivity from the audience.