Social Solutions

Power up your social app with real-time engagement

Drive conversations and create community by embedding real-time voice, video, messaging, and chat into your social app.
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Stream audio to a worldwide audience

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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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

Quickly build and deploy seamless AI experiences across voice, video, and chat, with ultra-low latency and top-tier performance, no matter the network conditions.

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Connect pre-integrated AI models

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

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

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Outstanding quality and reliability

Agora’s real-time engagement technology ensures the highest Quality of Service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) on both sides of a conversation. Agora’s real-time network provides a smooth experience so your users can focus on each other—not the technology.
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Make user-generated-content shine

Better engage your users with smooth, reliable interactive streaming. Creative options for AR facial masks and filters keep users having fun and excited about coming back. Agora’s platform includes voice effects— from sound mixing to reverb—and the ability to suppress local background noise and add sound effects.
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Increase user monetization and satisfaction

Maximize revenue opportunities and market share by shrinking your time-to-market. Agora’s live interactive streaming enables you to integrate video chat, live voice or video calls from participants, in-stream stats, merchandise sales, and virtual gifting. These features enhance social apps with more engaging experiences.

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Your building blocks for an engaging social experience

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Voice and video

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Interactive live streaming
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Chat and messaging

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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.

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

Bring your marketplace to life with human interaction. Decrease shopping cart abandonment and increase cross-sell by encouraging customers to socialize with each other and influencers to purchase an entire look, find seasonal necessities, get expert advice, and more.
According to McKinsey & Company, live-commerce-initiated sales could account for 20 percent of all e-commerce by 2026.
The live streaming shopping market in the US is estimated to be worth $35 billion by 2024.

Limitless virtual worlds for your business
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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.
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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

Engage friends. Form communities. Reach fans.

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Dating Apps
Millions of people meet, chat, and fall in love on social dating apps. Apps like The Meet Group use Agora to provide real-time video, voice, and messaging with pre-integrated content moderation solutions to ensure user safety.
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Dating Apps
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Creator Platforms
Reward creators with features that support fan-driven monetization. As the creator economy flourishes, users expect high quality experiences. Agora helps creators maximize earning potential through engaging interactive features and a reliable, scalable network.
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Creator Platforms
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Virtual Watch Parties
Let users enjoy their favorite shows with their favorite people anywhere in the world. Enable global watch parties with low-latency and scalability, from a small handful of viewers to hundreds of thousands, thanks to Agora’s unique network architecture. Screen a film debut to thousands of fans or enable users to watch a beloved family movie with far-flung relatives.
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Virtual Watch Parties
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Online-KTV/Interactive Live Music
Users don’t need to be in the same room to jam out with friends. Create an online karaoke (KTV) experience for small or large groups anywhere in the world with Interactive Live Streaming video and audio from Agoa. Ensure synchronization and smooth streaming on any device, anywhere in the world.
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“Agora’s customizable APIs allowed us to optimize real-time connectivity and network traffic while reducing latency to milliseconds during live streaming and interactive sessions between creators and fans.”
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Co-Founder, Fanory
“Agora’s Adaptive Video Optimization (AVO) drastically improved the real-time video experience in our app. Users get smooth, high-quality video without freezes—even on slow connections and older devices. Since implementing AVO, we’ve seen a 30% increase in session length and engagement.”
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Ellard Capiral
VP of Engineering, KUMU
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