Everything you should know about periscope before you start broadcasting!

1. PERISCOPE TIPS

2. BEFORE BROADCASTING:
Periscope is super simple. You can just open the app, hit the camera icon, type a title and hit
“Broadcast”. But there are some tips and are important to follow to make sure that the
broadcast is successful.
BIO
Some people defend that add your url in your bio is one of the most important things, is
the only place in periscope that you can add a link to external websites. But have some
limitations, the bio is limited to 160 characters, but it will only display between 117-122
characters, the rest of the bio will be hidden after the “…”, and this links are not clickable in
the mobile app, only on desktop app.

3. HEADLINE
You are allowed to have up to 120 characters for your broadcast’s headline, but it is
necessary to take into account that when your broadcast gets tweeted only 97 characters will
show up, since the link will occupy the remaining characters. So, don’t forget, only use MAX 97
CHARACTERS ON YOUR HEADLINE.

4. THUMBNAIL
When you hit the broadcast button whatever your camera is pointed will become the
video thumbnail. So use this as an advantage.
Add some context, like:
Show a graphic, website, image or… your face.
This will prevent the broadcast has a blurred picture or a photo of a wall, and allow
engage people before even begin to see the broadcast.

5. KATCH
Sign up in Katch.me.
"Katch came onto the scene in March when Meerkat was booming to provide you with a way
of saving your videos to YouTube by including #Katch in your posts title and tweeting it.
Four months on, Periscope is also on the scene and Katch has had a major upgrade. The
updated version has added Periscope support, instant replays, additional privacy controls and
the ability to download your videos.
To save your Periscope videos, it’s the same method as before – add #Katch to the title of your
video and tweet it. Alternatively, if you want to archive all of your posts, you can sign up on
the Katch website and it will do so automatically.
The service has moved away from hosting videos on YouTube and now hosts all of the content
natively."

6. DURING BROADCAST:
SHARE
In broadcast encourage sharing, its easy and highly effective, without spam of course.
In Periscope you can share directly in twitter, with all of your followers or just with specific
users, or you can share in facebook.

7. AFTER BROADCASTING:
MEASUREMENT
When you end your broadcast you’ll presented with the stats. With this stats you can
have an overview of the engagement and retention.
My advice is to take a screenshot of this stats for future reference.
One of the most important things is to follow up the comments, in Katch, you can go
back and pull the latest broadcast and see all he comments in a scrollable sidebar. In that you
can click on user or faces and link directly to their twitter profile.
The broadcast will live on Periscope for 24h, but with Hootsuite (or Buffer), you can
schedule out a re-share of the link. And with Katch its possible to have the broadcast available
at all times, but we will not be taking his goal of "immediate”?
So now you can start live streaming :D