Live streaming

Live streaming is proving itself a successful emerging technology across the world right now, and some predict the industry could grow to a global value of .2 billion by 2027. Streamers and streaming fans have risen dramatically since Facebook made it mainstream in 2017, but existed at online casinos years before this. 

With theaters closed due to Covid, actors and audiences must settle for virtual encounters from separate worlds through live-streaming. "You may have a big audience in many parts of Greece, but the silence is disconcerting," says Yiannis Stankoglou, one of four actors currently appearing in live-streamed plays who were interviewed by Kathimerini.

Twitter's live-streaming service Periscope will be blocked during Turkey's top football league matches, an Istanbul court has said in a landmark ruling.