livestream

Formslivestreams, livestreaming, livestreamed

1. 1
   verbtransitive

   To broadcast an event or performance over the internet as a live stream, in real time as it occurs.

   The university livestreams its graduation ceremony every spring.

   Local stations plan to livestream the debate alongside their regular television coverage.

   Similarstream

   Note

   Built from live + stream, the verb takes as its object whatever goes out over the connection: a tribute concert, a debate, a session of online games. It also takes a reflexive object followed by an -ing clause (she livestreamed herself painting) when the streamer is also what appears on screen. Its forms are regular: livestreams, livestreaming, livestreamed.

2. 2
   verbtransitive

   To receive and watch a broadcast over the internet as a live stream.

   Millions of viewers livestreamed the rocket launch on the agency's website.

   Commuters often livestream the morning news on the train.

   Similarstream, watch, view

   Note

   Here the subject is the audience, not the broadcaster. It is the same verb read from the other end of the connection. Because the spelling is shared with the broadcasting verb, a sentence like I'm planning to livestream the football game this weekend can mean watching it or putting it online. When the difference matters, watch the livestream says plainly that you are the viewer.

3. 3
   noun

   Alternative form of live stream.

   Over ten thousand people joined the livestream of the product launch.

   The museum's livestream lets visitors tour the new exhibit from anywhere.

   Note

   The noun written closed, as a variant of the two-word live stream. For the verb, the arrangement is reversed: livestream is the main form and live stream the variant. Careful writers can therefore keep a live stream but to livestream, though the closed noun is common in reporting (watching his livestream on YouTube). Either way the plural is regular: livestreams.

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