Hangouts On Air from Google+: a video broadcasting channel for everyone

Google+ developers continue to work on their brainchild, adding new features, and making the social network all the more interesting for users. Now, as far as can be judged, Google+ is Google’s top priority. The other day, developers have opened to everyone "Hangouts On Air". This is a video broadcast service that is associated with YouTube.

Hangouts On Air allows each user of a social network to open their own “TV channel”, i.e. broadcast video in real time. Google+ was a video conferencing right away, but Hangouts On Air is a more advanced service than a simple conference. Thus, the created channel can be broadcast to an unlimited number of viewers (although there can be a total of 10 participants of such a video broadcast, there are active participants).
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Google developers believe that their service is suitable for journalists, for webinars and conferences, for organizing round tables. It’s just not possible to launch Hangouts On Air - in order to start broadcasting, you need to work with both YouTube and Google+ (accounts of these two services must be linked). When broadcasting, a video recording takes place, which, after the end of the broadcast, remains on YouTube and Google+.

It is worth noting that Hangouts On Air is not the newest feature of Google+, but so far this service has been available to a limited number of users. The service will be open to all for a couple of weeks.

Via pcworld