Livestreaming
Native company livestreaming for town halls, all-hands, leadership Q&A, training and safety briefings — broadcast in-app, auto-recorded for on-demand playback, and metered per broadcast minute.
MangoApps
Overview
Livestreaming keeps a broadcast inside the same workspace as everyone's calendar, internal comms, and news feed, instead of handing the room to a separate webinar tool. Hosts point any RTMPS encoder — OBS, Wirecast, Zoom, or Teams — at MangoApps and go live; employees watch on web or mobile, with live chat, upvote-Q&A, and polls updating for everyone instantly.
Because the stream is a native object, what happens around it doesn't need a manual follow-up: a scheduled stream can mirror onto the company calendar, going live can draft a "we're live" post for an admin to publish, and a finished recording can land in the News Feed on its own. AI helps with the surrounding grind too — clustering duplicate audience questions for the host, and recapping what a late joiner missed — only when a person asks for it.
Access follows the tenant's own roles rather than a separate guest list: admins decide whether hosting stays with them or opens to any employee, moderation is anchored to the host and the person who scheduled the stream, and recordings play back through short-lived signed tokens instead of a shareable public link. Billing is metered on broadcast minutes alone, so the size of the audience never changes what a town hall costs.
Highlights
Capabilities
Broadcast & recording
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RTMPS encoder ingest (OBS / Wirecast / Zoom / Teams)
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In-app HLS player on web and /m/ mobile
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Host console — ingest URL, stream key, go-live / end controls
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Live viewer count from heartbeat presence
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Auto-record broadcast to on-demand VOD playback
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Signed, short-lived playback tokens (access-controlled) Falls back to public playback when no signing key is configured
Live audience engagement
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Live chat with Turbo Streams fan-out
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Upvote-Q&A (ask, one vote per viewer)
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Host moderation — mark answered / dismiss questions
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Moderator soft-remove of chat (audit-preserving)
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In-stream polls — launch, vote, close, live tally
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Cross-viewer live fan-out of Q&A and polls
AI assist
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"Catch me up" AI recap for late joiners Throttled per viewer to control LLM spend
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AI Q&A clustering / dedup for hosts
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AI post-event recap (summary, highlights, questions)
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Auto-captioning of recordings (Mux ASR) When auto-transcribe is on
Connected apps & comms
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Mirror scheduled streams onto the company Calendar, with a reminder an hour before
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Open a stream for registration on Calendar's Events tab (Company Events)
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Watch live / Watch recording from the calendar event; viewers count as Attended
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Draft a 'We're live' Broadcast on go-live Posts as a draft for an admin to publish
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Auto-post recordings to the Communications feed Off by default; Communications keeps its own contributor switch
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In-app / push 'go live' notification
Admin, access & metering
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Who-can-host setting (admins only / any user)
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Per-event manage gating (host, creator, or admin)
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Enterprise bring-your-own provider via Integrations Mux; configured under Admin → Integrations
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Per-tenant defaults for recording, captions, calendar, Broadcast, feed & reminders
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Sample / demo data — load and clear
Limits & Specs
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Metering unit: Broadcast minutes — stream wall-clock, audience-independent
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Billing model: Pay-as-you-go, per broadcast minute (no floor)
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Streaming provider: Mux (managed) or enterprise bring-your-own
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RTMPS ingest endpoint: rtmps://global-live.mux.com:443/app
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Signed playback token TTL: 6 hours
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Live-viewer heartbeat window: 2 minutes
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Chat message length: 500 characters
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Question length: 1,000 characters
Use cases
Resources
FAQ
Livestreaming is pay-as-you-go, metered by broadcast minute — the stream's wall-clock duration, rounded up to the next minute when the stream ends. Metering is audience-independent, so how many employees watch never changes the bill, and there is no monthly floor.
Point any RTMPS encoder — OBS, Wirecast, Zoom or Teams — at the ingest URL and stream key shown in the host console, then click Go live. Browser-native broadcasting (no encoder) is on the roadmap.
By default streams auto-record to on-demand playback, and recordings are AI-captioned when auto-transcribe is on. If recording is turned off for an event, the auto-created recording is deleted at the provider so nothing is stored.
On the in-app watch page (web and /m/ mobile) viewers get live chat, upvote-Q&A — anyone can ask, one vote per viewer, so the questions people care about rise to the top — and in-stream polls they vote in. New questions and poll results fan out to every viewer live over Turbo Streams, with no page reload.
A late joiner can tap "Catch me up" for an AI recap of what they missed (throttled to about one request a minute per viewer since each call is LLM spend). Hosts get AI clustering that groups the flood of audience questions into themes, and a post-event AI recap summarizing the session, highlights and top questions.
When the matching options are enabled, a scheduled stream is mirrored onto the company Calendar with a reminder an hour ahead, and the host can open it for registration so anyone finds it under Calendar's Events tab. The calendar event offers Watch live while it airs and the recording afterwards, and viewers count as Attended on the roster. Going live sends an in-app/push "we're live" notification and drafts a Broadcast for an admin to publish, and the finished recording can auto-post to the News Feed.
A tenant setting controls who can schedule and host — admins only, or any user; admins and app-admins can always host. Managing or moderating a specific stream (edit, end, answer/dismiss Q&A, remove chat) is limited to that stream's host, its creator, or an admin, not to anyone who merely has the hosting capability.
Streams use signed, short-lived playback tokens (about a 6-hour TTL) so a leaked URL can't be watched from outside your organization; when no signing key is configured playback falls back to public. Enterprise tenants can bring their own Mux account by configuring it under Admin → Integrations; otherwise streaming runs on the managed account.
Livestreaming is one-to-many live video — a host broadcasts a town hall or training from an encoder and the whole company watches an HLS player with live chat and Q&A. Broadcast is targeted text/media announcements (no live video) pushed to specific recipient groups. Live Assist is small-group WebRTC video — a remote expert joins a worker's phone-camera POV to guide a fix — not a company-wide broadcast.
