Anyone can be a broadcaster on YouNow, and unlike some other live broadcasting platforms, broadcasts can be as long as users want, and broadcasters can engage with users in real time via comments.
"I will be taking a long, hard look at the balance of payments between broadcasters and platforms," said Javid, speaking at the Royal Television Society London conference on Tuesday.
The apps integrate into a broadcaster's platform to create these 'second screen' activities.
The line between broadcaster and technology platform will continue to blur — NFL games broadcast live on Twitter is just the beginning.
We don't want to see any broadcaster becoming a platform for religious proselytising".
First, Sky enlarged its subscription package to include broadcasters such as Disney, CNN and Nickelodeon, turning its brand from a broadcaster into a platform.
To argue you don't need regulation of some kind to balance the equation between public service broadcasters and pay platforms is dishonest".
The Special Broadcasting Service was launched by the then Liberal prime minister, Malcolm Fraser, in 1974, as a service for local non-English speakers but has evolved into a diverse, multi-platform broadcaster that provides more than just multilingual services.
To broadcast on the Sky Digital platform, a broadcaster must also secure an EPG slot allowing viewers to navigate to their channel using the set-top-boxes provided by British Sky Broadcasting.
The letter says that the eight-year-old digital broadcaster provides a "key platform" for the national Asian community "and offers creative British Asian talent an outlet which is demonstrably under-represented in the more mainstream BBC.
