INTRODUCING PLANET CROSSWORD. Planet Crossword is a massively multiplayer crossword game optimized for groups of any size. It’s playable natively in the places where we already hang out online - YouTube, Discord, Zoom, Twitch, etc. You can play now at hovercats.gg 😼
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Looking back at 100 episodes of Live@Expo : Over the course of 6 months, Live@Expo had 470,000 live views across Twitch, Youtube, and Facebook, and 15 million VOD. Our expert guides visited 300 pavilions and food stops throughout the Expo grounds. Last but certainly not least, Live@Expo was nominated for a Producers Guild of America Innovation Award. We’re incredibly proud of our work on this project and are looking forward to pulling some key learnings from this experience into interactive virtual tours in the future. Stay tuned 👀
#livestreaming #virtualtours #gamification #interactivelivestreaming #expo2020
Meet the Donation Badge:
It’s a creative way to recognize a group of donor names and show the collective impact of grassroots donations. Social proof has never looked better.
Donation badges can look like anything you want. Literally anything: Postage stamps, bricks, jalapeños, football helmets, snorkels, ticket stubs, Pokémon. The list goes on.
Swipe to check out how Emerge and Save the Redwoods League deployed donation badges during fundraisers last year.
Shoot us a DM to schedule a demo and learn how to use donation badges to visualize your fundraising now.
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We're ecstatic to be nominated for The PGA Innovation Award! Live@Expo is an audience-controlled tour of Expo 2020 in Dubai. It’s part TV show, part game, and part social. #pgaawards
We’re honored to be surrounded by such an incredible list of nominees! @producersguild
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Picture this, you’re throwing a virtual event. A big one. A nice one.
You want to build a sense of community and show the smiling faces in your audience. But you can't fit the whole crowd on video – that’s chaos. Introducing the live stream photo booth from Hovercast.
It’s simple -
* Ask your audience to upload photos on your landing page
* Curate the best ones
* Show them on screen in your graphics
* Download the images when you’re done
We love this feature because of the power photos have to capture emotion. And it lets your audience feel and be seen without forcing them to upload a photo to social media. (You can do that with Hovercast, too, but it may not be right for, say, your business' all-hands.)
The best part? The photo booth feature is included as part of your Hovercast Event Page.
Reach out to learn more about how to boost engagement with photo booths, or head to our website to schedule a demo.
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Last October we launched a six month journey through Expo 2020 in Dubai. It’s an interactive live stream series where the audience controls an onsite guide exploring the Expo and broadcasting their adventures using a small camera and backpack-based streaming hardware. The audience is collectively working together to complete a goal to create the future, unlocking badges and contributing to Expo’s larger seeds of change initiative that will give real monetary donations to the causes the audience choose.
The groundbreaking aspect of this series is that all engagement is gamified and viewers participation directly ties into their position on an ongoing leaderboard. The audience can communicate directly with the Guide by typing comments into a chat window, creating a feedback loop that leads to exciting quests, captivating interviews, and a global community of participants. Live @ Expo is cross-streaming on Twitch, Youtube, and Facebook.
Standout stats:
* Viewership: The Live @ Expo team has received over 50 million impressions and 6 million views across 58 of the 100 episodes and we expect this number to double.
* Engagement: Viewers have interacted over a million times across episodes with likes, poll votes, comments and shares.
* Gameplay/ Seeds of Change: Audience members have earned over 11,000 points which will be converted into real life carbon neutral initiatives.
* Leaderboard: We’ve had thousands of unique viewers climb the leaderboard.
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Feature Highlight: Meters
Showcasing a meter is incredibly effective while streaming because you can use the built-in urgency of being live to motivate your audience. We’ve made some major innovations in Meter Technology that will knock the socks off viewers and help you drive action.
With Hovercast, you can:
-Design your meter with custom images & videos. The sky’s the limit 👏
-Celebrate with animated GIFs or stickers when you hit your goal using our built-in Giphy integration 🥳
-Create stretch goals automatically when you hit your initial goal 📈
For fundraising, you can count the total raised or the number of individual donors. You can also use meters to track mentions of a hashtag on social media, emojis in the chat, or even a custom action (think email signups, petition signatures, or any activity accessible via API).
Meters are way better when they unlock a reward during the stream. Make your emcee dance or show her yearbook photo if you hit your goal. In a fundraiser with the cast of Hamilton, Jonathan Groff & Sasha Hutchings promised to swap outfits when they hit their first goal. Spoiler: they did (swipe for a sneak peak ➡️)
Want to learn more about how to motivate your audience and level up your stream with meters? Send us a DM or email to schedule a demo now.
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As we kick off 2022, we want to share one of the biggest new features of Hovercast Pro: Live Stream Gamification. With Gamification, you can:
- Award points + badges for audience participation 🕹️
- Track points from one broadcast or across a series of broadcasts 📊
- Show top-scorers on a leaderboard🏅
It's no secret that gamification boosts participation, but more importantly, it’s fun. And what better way to foster community in your stream than some friendly competition. With gamification, you can reward audiences for featured chat, voting in a poll, or answering trivia.
We’ve already seen this approach work wonders as part of the interactive, audience-controlled tours at Expo 2020. The best part is, gamification works across all streaming platforms.
Want to learn how to add gamification to your stream? Send us a DM or email to schedule a demo.
Interactive widgets credit: Live @ Expo.
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In May, HBO Max invited select super-fans to watch the Friends Reunion premiere at an outdoor screening at the iconic Hollywood Forever Cemetery. The experience featured live pre-show entertainment that streamed worldwide. Hovercast provided interactive polls, trivia, and featured chat from Facebook and YouTube, allowing the virtual audience to participate from across the globe.
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E3 Expo 2021 was a global, interactive broadcast of the iconic international video game conference. Hovercast powered the dynamic graphics for the event, including featured chats and live, cross-platform polls.
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