Use cases

Stream audio to a worldwide audience

LiveCast

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

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

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.
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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 audio coverage of sports and other events.

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.

Online audio classroom

Create an interactive, online audio classroom.

Provide an ultra-low latency classroom interactive experience from anywhere with Agora’s Live Audio Streaming. Agora’s intelligent routing with our SD-RTN™ network ensures audio streams in real time without stutter or delay, so educators can teach and students can learn effectively.

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 live shopping video session with woman showing off a blazer for purchase with gold coins with dollar signs floating around her highlighting monetization success.

Enable real-time shopper engagement at scale

Reach highly engaged viewers in real-time with shoppable live streams. Agora’s scalable global network enables you to live stream shopping events to millions of people anywhere in the world, on any device with confidence.

Reduce shopping cart abandonment

Today, static images on product pages are not enough to drive shoppers to make decisions and complete orders. Empower content creators in your marketplace to make human connections with live video and chat to increase sale completion.

Streamline social shopping

Empower the new creator economy on your marketplace. Support thousands of live streams every day with real-time bidding and auctions. Enhance audience interaction with content moderation and cloud recording for real customer testimonials.

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.
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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.

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Care Gaps

The World Health Organization predicts a shortage of 18 million physicians, nurses, and support staff by 2030.
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Leading players in the Healthcare industry are using virtual care and telehealth software to close gaps in care delivery and support.
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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.

Use cases

Delight audiences with fast, hyper-engaging live shopping

A live video auction with bidders bidding on a portrait.

Live auctions

Shorten the distance between talented influencers and completed sale transactions. Give content creators easy tools to showcase specialties or high-value items and create urgency-enabled “buy it now” moments with live bidding. Ultra-low latency live video shopping and real-time synced data ensure audience bids and social interaction are natural and trusted.

Live auctions

A customer service rep engaging in live video chat with a customer.

Video chat customer service

Allow customers to talk to an expert over video to simplify communication and customer service questions. Resolve issues or take orders in real time, without worrying about connection issues. Ensure high quality and reliable connections with customers around the world and on any device and platform.

Video chat customer service

A woman engaging with a personal shopper on a video call on her phone.

Personal shoppers & shop together

Socialize buying decisions with one-on-one or one-to-few sessions on how to accessorize with a personal shopper. For example, a personal shopper can conduct a live video call with a customer to suggest clothing items and ways to wear them for a special occasion. Alternately, a group video chat allows a mother not to miss her daughter’s wedding fitting.

Personal shoppers & shop together

A woman showcasing a dumbbell on a live shopping video call.

Shoppable live streams

Whether you’re showing new cosmetics and makeup techniques, the latest in athletic clothing, or tools to bake the perfect cupcake—spread the word live. Let hosts use interactive live streams to create an immersive environment, such as a dinner party with fancy outfits and décor to showcase products in a believable setting. Add audience chat, polling and controls to allow customers to talk in real-time.

Shoppable live streams

“We are absolutely thrilled to enable a paradigm shift in live selling with these features which will open up new ways for CommentSold sellers to gamify live selling shows and drive engagement. Now sellers can leverage professional hosts, celebrities and creators to co-host or host their live stream shopping events."

Andrew Chen

Chief Product Officer, CommentSold

"With Agora’s superior Video Calling, Chat and Signaling SDK, Palmstreet is empowering plant sellers to carry out one-to-many live video shopping. Plant buyers can chat with each other in real-time, enabling a community of 1M members to have an interactive experience.”

Chen Li

Founder & CEO, Palmstreet

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Accelerate sales with live shopping

Stream audio to a worldwide audience

LiveCast

Co-listening

Internet radio

Event commentary

Live online karaoke

Online audio classroom

Build multimodal AI experiences fast

Connect pre-integrated AI models

Enable immediate AI responses

Convert speech to text in real time

Give AI a voice with text to speech

Deploy multimodal AI agents

Ensure uninterrupted connections

Drive social engagement in any app

Enable real-time shopper engagement at scale

Reduce shopping cart abandonment

Streamline social shopping

Create interactive live streaming eCommerce experiences with ease

Live streaming shopping

Real-time signaling

Audience engagement

Content moderation

Boundless virtual education is here

Close Care Gaps

Engage Social Shoppers. Stream Live Auctions. Boost Upsell and Cross-Sell.

Limitless virtual worlds for your business to explore

Build a more engaging entertainment destination

Delight audiences with fast, hyper-engaging live shopping

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Close
Care Gaps

Engage Social Shoppers. Stream Live Auctions.
Boost Upsell and Cross-Sell.

Limitless virtual worlds for your business
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