What is Agora’s Media and Entertainment solution?

Agora provides real-time voice, video, streaming, and engagement tools that help developers build interactive media and entertainment experiences including live streaming, OTT platforms, and social entertainment apps.

How does Agora help create interactive entertainment experiences?

Agora enables real-time audience participation through features like live chat, emoji reactions, virtual gifting, co-hosting, immersive audio, and interactive live streaming.

What types of media applications can I build with Agora?

Developers can build applications for live concerts, sports streaming, OTT platforms, news broadcasting, live shopping, and social entertainment communities.

How does Agora support large-scale live streaming?

Agora’s global real-time network is optimized for low latency and scalable streaming performance across more than 200 countries and regions.

Can Agora help improve audience engagement and monetization?

Yes. Agora provides features such as live chat, virtual gifting, co-streaming, and audience participation tools that help increase engagement, retention, and monetization opportunities.

What tools are available for media and entertainment developers?

Agora offers immersive audio, analytics, moderation and transcription, and interactive live streaming capabilities that developers can combine to create customized entertainment experiences.

Use cases

Stream audio to a worldwide audience

LiveCast: Global Podcast Streaming

Stream live podcasts to a worldwide audience.

Whether it’s a hot take with a celebrity or trending topics with tech executives, allow your audience to drop in on live discussions. Agora’s interactive audio streaming ensures your livecast streams smoothly to anyone, on any device, anywhere in the world.

Co-listening: Social Music Streaming

Build a platform for people to enjoy music together.

If you’re creating the next music streaming app, make it an interactive experience for your listeners.
With Interactive Live Streaming, create drop-in audio chat rooms for new album releases, live DJ sets, and virtual concerts that easily scale from a few listeners to thousands.

Internet Radio with Two-Way Interaction

Make radio engaging with live host and audience interactions.

One-way communication is boring. Give your host the ability to pass the mic so attendees can ask questions, offer comments, or enter contests in real time during the live audio stream.
‍
Agora’s audio streaming lets you keep the action going during broadcasts with reliable, high-quality connections reaching people all over the world.

Event commentary

Stream live sports commentary or news coverage with real-time audience sync.

Bring live event action and excitement to fans who can attend from anywhere. Whether it’s commentary for the World Cup or in-depth reporting of a major news event, with ultra-low latency, everyone experiences each moment at the same time, allowing them to interact with each other as if they were together in person.

Live online karaoke

Keep them singing with online karaoke.

You don’t need to be in the same room in order to jam out with friends.
Create an online karaoke (KTV) experience for small or large groups, anywhere in the world with Interactive Live Streaming audio from Agora.

Build multimodal AI experiences fast

Connect pre-integrated AI models

Get to market faster with seamless pre-integrated connections to leading Large Language Models (LLMs).

Enable immediate AI responses

Agora’s real-time infrastructure enables AI communication with minimal lag or delay, mimicking natural human to human conversation.

Convert speech to text in real time

Use pre-integrated real-time transcription to convert live speech to text (STT) and feed it directly to an LLM for immediate AI responses, insights, or suggestions.

Give AI a voice with text to speech

Deliver precise text-to-speech (TTS) output, offering a range of voice options tailored to your communication needs.

Deploy multimodal AI agents

Enable users to communicate with AI in real time via voice, video and chat. Integrate with avatar services to give your AI a face.

Ensure uninterrupted connections

Agora’s global real-time network and last mile technology provides the highest quality voice, video, and chat interaction regardless of network conditions and user’s location.

Drive social engagement in any app

A person sits on a couch using a laptop. 3D-like floating icons and images around them include photos, chat messages, and emojis, creating a dynamic digital interaction scene.

Ingest: Live stream from anywhere

Ingest live audio and video from any location worldwide, unconstrained by local network conditions. Enable production teams to shoot live content anywhere or capitalize on the lower cost of user generated content.

Engage: Make your user experience interactive

Encourage stickiness with an interactive experience, elevating live content and breathing new life into existing media. Enable social interactions directly on your platform to reduce attention to social media.

Monetize: Boost audience-facing revenue

Capitalize on new forms of monetization ranging from live shopping to exclusive interactive virtual events. Enable micro-transactions like virtual tipping or early content access to expand consumer-facing revenue.

Distribute: Reach a global audience

Remove the limitations of CDNs to deliver the live content in the highest quality without latency. Agora’s global edge network allows you to reach your audience worldwide, unconstrained resource-intensive points of presence (POPs).

Boundless virtual education is here

Break free from one-size-fits-all video conferencing solutions that ignore your students’ needs. When it comes to your video platform for education, say goodbye to unstable connections, high latency, and scalability issues.
‍
Agora’s education solutions give you the building blocks to assemble a custom, branded live virtual classroom at any scale, with a diverse set of engagement and collaboration tools that work reliably across the globe.

awarded with

Close
Care Gaps

The World Health Organization predicts a shortage of 18 million physicians, nurses, and support staff by 2030.
‍
Leading players in the Healthcare industry are using virtual care and telehealth software to close gaps in care delivery and support.
‍
Leverage the latest real-time engagement solutions to provide quality care from anywhere in the world.

Limitless virtual worlds for your business
to explore

Agora’s Metaverse solutions give you the building blocks to create branded virtual worlds at any scale, with a diverse toolset that works reliably across the globe and across any industry vertical such as gaming, enterprise, collaboration, education, and many more.

The global AR, VR, and MR market is projected to grow significantly, reaching approximately $521.28 billion by 2031.

The augmented reality market is also forecasted to reach a value of $340 billion by 2028.

By 2030, the market for VR headsets is projected to reach around $59.63 billion.

Build a more engaging entertainment destination

Stop losing eyeballs to social media. Make your app the destination for your fans with interactive live content featuring immersive audio and video with native social interactions. Open up new possibilities for monetization with exclusive access, virtual tipping, and live shopping overlays.

Media & entertainment brands are investing in more live, digital content

In 2023, U.S. adults and Gen Z are forecast to spend more time watching digital video than traditional linear TV.

In 2022 Google, Apple and Amazon invested $6B to stream live sports broadcasting.

US adults ages 18 to 24 spend less time watching traditional TV than any other age group. They consume digital video on social media.

Convo AI Studio:
Design Your AI Workforce‍

Build, Configure, and Scale without the Complexity

The Convo AI Studio is a UI-friendly command center that allows Product Managers and Ops leaders to architect sophisticated AI agents through easy menu selections and configuration features.

Build

Configure your AI agent with your preferred AI vendors, instant testing, and optimized audio (VAD, voice lock, noise cancellation).

Deploy

Connect a phone number, assign the agent, and run personalized, scheduled outreach with smart call and voicemail handling.

Optimize

Review analytics and transcripts to evaluate performance and refine your agent over time.

Use cases

Engage audiences. Drive monetization.

Use cases

Bring any experience to life with Agora

View All

Provide remote healthcare in
real time

Telehealth

Accelerate sales with
live shopping

Live Shopping

Build custom virtual
learning experiences

Education

Intensify gaming with real-
time engagement

Gaming

A player dunking a basketball on a live stream sports game.

Make your media experience social and interactive

Entertainment

A live concert with band on stage and crow interacting and waving hands in the air.

Live concerts

Sell virtual concert tickets to home viewers and add virtual fan walls. Increase fan excitement by streaming multiple camera angles. Add value and social engagement to VIP tickets with private online concerts and virtual artist meetups. Enable new revenue streams for artists with virtual tipping. Support new immersive experiences with augmented or extended reality and spatial audio.

Live concerts

News

Create a mobile-friendly video ingest app to enable citizen journalism and never miss a breaking news story again. Conduct remote guest interviews even in demanding low-bandwidth environments with Agora’s global network providing ultra-low video latency and fewer packet loss errors. Optimize the sound quality of user-generated live streams with AI Noise Suppression.

News

A live sportscast of a soccer game featuring items for purchase.

Sports events

Add more value to your apps by enabling real-time interaction between fans and sportscasters, athletes, and influencers. Incorporate live chat, podcasts, data overlays, and live auctions of merchandise and memorabilia. Stream more camera angles with ultra-low latency. Keep the fan conversation going in your space with fan communities rather than driving to 3rd party social media apps.

Sports events

Live shopping

Seamlessly integrate live shopping into any live broadcast. Present items in an interactive overlay on a live stream or add a compelling live shopping experience to your static online store.

Live shopping

An OTT live talkshow between a woman and a man.

OTT

Reach global audiences with ultra-low latency live streaming that enables audience interaction. Scale for millions. Create connected TV apps with real-time engagement functionality for live trivia, shopping, subscription-based VIP live streams and fan chat sessions.

OTT

Use cases

Engage audiences. Drive monetization.

Live concerts

News

Sports events

Live shopping

Seamlessly integrate live shopping into any live broadcast. Present items in an interactive overlay on a live stream or add a compelling live shopping experience to your static online store.

Live shopping

OTT