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Live Center - Live Reporting

Score7.5 out of 10

2 Reviews and Ratings

What is Live Center - Live Reporting?

Live Center is a customizable live-blogging solution that enables journalists to deliver up-to-the second live news coverage, such as sports events, elections, breaking news, weather and other streaming or time-critical news.

The solution offers a mobile-friendly editor, allowing reporters to work from their desk or right from the heart of the action. With Live Center, journalists are able to create content and pull in social media posts, capture videos and upload them directly to the platform, or enrich the reader experience through icons, giphies, and live chat functionality. With its customization possibilities, Live Center appears as native to customers' platforms and further enables the embedding of blogs within articles, news portals, apps or on front pages. It also integrates with existing CMS, media libraries, or other third-party systems, allowing users to reuse content elsewhere on their platforms and increase the overall ROI from live blogs.

Make headlines by breaking real-time news:
Live Center empowers journalists to break news as it happens and develop rich live blogs for better storytelling, based on a range of features, such as creating a custom byline, custom themes, highlight key posts and third-party data or social media integration. Live Center also supports monetization strategies, enabling embedding of ads or subsciber-only content to increase subscriber conversions.

Deliver play-by-play live sports experiences to win over fans:
With Live Center's sports mode, news publishers are able to add a sports theme for their live blogs and deliver an enhanced fan experience with specific sports features, such as scoreboards, countdowns, sports icons, live chat and comment moderation.

Categories & Use Cases

Media

Mobile-friendly editor which dynamically renders to different screen sizes.
Interface with real-time preview of posts.
Customizable design allowing for a blended live blog design with the rest of a site.
Ability for users to create custom post types and post elements to enhance their live coverage
Flexible integration avaialble - choose between Iframe, JS, API, or AMP enables emnbeds
Sport scoreboards with user-expandable elements available for sports live blogging
Graphs and charts can be created natively in the solution to visually present data and statistics
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Easy blog writing tools for content creator

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a separate page for our blogs where we update about learning and academics. But to integrate those blogs in our home page was a very difficult task. To simplify that we onboarded to Live Center. Here we get a lot of unique features which we were not using in our blog.

Pros

  • We get a very easy and simple way to integrate/ embed this blog to any website.
  • Here we get lot of option for integration such as WordPress, twitter automation
  • Its subscription feature is also good where we can charge our users for reading blogs and we can put ads on the blog as well in a very simple manner.

Cons

  • Pricing is too high as compare to the services offered. Same thing can be done by other platforms as well in a very cheap price.
  • Doesn't get a lot of options for customization of the blog. We have to rely on the themes offered by them

Most Important Features

  • Support from Live Center is awesome and their documentation is also very detailed and covers every thing.
  • Subscription extension is also good for charging users

Return on Investment

  • As compared to the services we were getting from Live Center was not worth the price we were paying.
  • There are many blog writing tools which have a lot of customization option and they are cheap as well.

Live Blogging has Elevated our Engagement!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Live feeds are all the rage right now and buyers are looking for up-to-date content at their fingertips. Live Center - Live Blogging has enabled us to create a live stream feed with elevated content and peer-to-peer connection. By allowing subscribers to connect, comment, ask questions, etc - it provides an engaging experience.

Pros

  • Increased engagement with video
  • Auto Publish
  • Ability to monetize

Cons

  • The flow of comments could be improved.
  • The ability to turn off auto updates on a live blog doesn't exist.
  • Could add more reporting functionality.

Most Important Features

  • Mobility
  • User friendliness
  • Reporting

Return on Investment

  • Increase engagement
  • Better content output
  • Higher morale