While Facebook might be making a serious push into streaming live video, Periscope was there first – and the CEO of the Twitter-owned company has called Facebook’s own efforts “flattering”.
In an interview with The Guardian, Periscope’s 27-year-old founder and CEO Kayvon Beykpour opined that the service “will continue to thrive – because we have built something that is interesting enough that other people want to shamelessly get in the space. If anything, that’s just flattering.”
However, while calling Facebook’s policy of paying for live video content “an effective and aggressive way to play catch-up”, he insisted that, “philosophically, we want to make sure that we’re always building something that people inherently want to use, without using economics as a crutch.”
Still, Beykpour strongly hinted that Periscope’s future will involve “incentivizing creators”, pointing out that Twitter has “a whole division called Niche that works with creators to help pair them with brands that want to sponsor content and help them make a living.”
Periscope is available as a free iOS app, and its functionality has recently become even more firmly integrated into the platform’s free Twitter app.
