British Arts Festivals Association

British Arts Festivals Association 2015 - ARCHIVED

Extend The Audience (ETA) uses between 3 and 5 mainstream social media platforms to structure a curated program of online activity for a registered audience. Each ETA supported event has a page like this one to share with the wider web audience who follow mainly via Twitter.

BAFA used

Periscope to live stream
Blab to host online Q&A panel discussion
Appear to provide an online video chat space
BEME to live-cast a guided tour from multiple perspectives.

Listen to how they all fitted together. This audio is 13min 48secs
The documents and platforms referenced in the recording are all on this page. Casey's intro video to BEME is below too.

BAFA15 snapshot moments

BAFA15 - Extend The AUdience

2015 BAFA Conference for Festivals Program
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BAFA15 Extend The Audience Program
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What can you do to extend the reach of your audience? Live Streaming has been with us for several years now but it can be costly to commission when factored in to the budget of value vs tickets sold.

During the Mind The Gap conference PCM worked with BAFA, the delegates and volunteers to explore a set of mobile apps selected with extending audience reach in mind.

This was a great opportunity to showcase the ETA program concept, its potential and capability dovetailing nicely with the event's Mind The Gap focus theme.

Audiences Selecting preference

Choose the BAFA PM breakout session topic livestreamed on periscope 4-5pm 12/11/15

* Indicates required field

Which one would you like to see? *

Making the most of new technologies Cultural Tourism Festivals as Extreme Sports for the Arts

I want to watch... this one

Self-Cast Live streaming APP Showcase hub
All links for BAFA's Extend The Audiences apps

Periscope

Explore the world through someone else's eyes. Periscope we realized there is no better way to experience a place right now than through live video. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but live video can take you someplace and show you around.

Periscope was acquired Jan, 2015 by Twitter before the product had been publically launched. The acquisition was officially announced in a tweet from Periscope and retweeted by Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on March 13 after the rival video streaming app Meerkat was a breakout hit at South by Southwest 2015

Appear

Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login required — no installs

During the conference BAFA has what is affectionately calling a CLOUD LOUNGE for all the digital bidies people to use should they feel the need.

The long term ambition for appear.in is to create a global video communication service that users love and use frequently.

There are apps in respective app stores but hey, you don't need them. CLICK HERE for the BAFA-CLOUD-LOUNGE

Create your own Create a room and invite up to 8 friends

Create a Room
Copy and Share the link
Appear together!

POBIT

Self broacast, live internet streaming at professional quality.
A full substitute for Outside Broadcast facilities. Under complete real time control. At remarkably low cost.

This solution does require a ethernet connection to broadcast.
You buy the Pobit box of tricks (its rack mountable) plug in a camera, a laptop and away you go.

Its built in features enable overlay captions and ticket sales but free events coverage can be provisioned. This is what BAFA is showcaseing during the afternoon keynote, Identifying the Gap - Festival Leadership in Turbulent Times.

TO VIEW THE KEYNOTE.

Download the App for your devise (Mobile Only)
Sign Up (you will receive an activation code)
Open App (Activate)
Click the BAFA Banner
Click START when the time is right

Only available for viewing on the dedicated app (Nov 2015)

Pobit LIVE - briefing document
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Blab

The internet’s most interesting interviews, talk shows, casual hangouts, debates, discussions, and live workshops in one place.. Blab lets anyone have thier own chat show.

Watch in a browser LIVE - blab.im

BEME

I will let BEME's creator Casey Neistat introduce his app. Watch the video, please download it and start BEMEing.

MEERKAT

Meerkat is a mobile app that enables users to broadcast live video streaming through their mobile device. Once signed up, Meerkat users have the option of connecting their Facebook and Twitter accounts, and stream directly to their followers as soon as they go live.