Meanwhile, social live-streaming platforms that got their start enabling people to either vlog or watch video gaming are expanding to all sorts of live broadcasting: Twitch averaged 1 million viewers at any given point of day in January, and there were 3.5 billion broadcasts over Facebook Live in the first two years after it launched (with 2 billion users viewing at least one).
No. Because, come on, if you squint, he very slightly resembles the person in that old blurry photo that might be him, and look, I know you thought Banksy was some sort of radical hero broadcasting uncomfortable truths but he is your father.
Mark once told me that he uses Cyber Dust as a sort of "dark Twitter," broadcasting messages, photos and tidbits about the Mavs to his legions of fans.
In his latest incarnation – as a sort of vigilante vlogger broadcasting via his personal YouTube account – he has gathered a significant follower base, whose growth has coincided with a period in which the UK has seen a rise in "explicit racial, ethnic and religious intolerance" as a result of the Brexit referendum, according to the recent findings of a UN expert.
Attempting to interact with those comments, or switch between tabs, also caused the feed to freeze – sort of undermining the benefits of broadcasting online.
National Public Radio, America's sort-of BBC, surprised some in the industry by not broadcasting Serial on traditional radio, perhaps to make a statement about the power of modern podcasting.
When the station's license expired in 2007, the F.C.C. pointedly declined to renew it, but didn't revoke it either, leaving the station in a sort of limbo — able to continue broadcasting for the time being, but uncertain about its future.
As I was prohibited by man code to ask anyone for suggestions on where I might go instead, it took me three more tries to find an alcohol-serving venue that was broadcasting any sort of "big game".
