How do I gain fans? How do I get a lot of money? So, I do not blame Broadcasters when they opt for sexier content, but enough not to get in trouble with Bigo Live’s vague rules. However, in my own experience, if my goal was to earn as much money as I could, I’d be thinking of surefire easy ways to get viewers’ attention. The Broadcasters genuinely can make a big sum of money a month being themselves. I had a lot of fun being on Bigo, but would I consider being on the platform more? Probably not due to the amount of effort Bigo Broadcasters have to do in order to get cash-flow. I tried to catch people’s attention with the concept of “playing with make-up”, and it eventually became me trying to make people laugh by turning myself into a cartoon character.
My experience was only a mere 45 minutes, but in that short time I got myself about 60 people who watched, gained 3 fans (3 more than I thought I would get) and a few very nice comments (as well as some I could have done without). Mike noted that “not everybody can be in front of a screen 8-10 hours a day”. Isadora gave solid advice like the type of content that works and doesn’t work. I previously asked Isadora, Jaysung and Mike for advice when it comes to going live on the Platform. My experience was positive, and as someone who likes to talk about themselves, live-streaming was almost second nature to me. I truly couldn’t speak about Bigo without trying it myself, which is exactly what I did. If they ‘perfected’ it, why is there still a lot of unregulated content? Trying Bigo myself While it seemed like he answered my questions, there were still concerns a few days after my conversation with him. “We have sort of perfected a system whereby (Bigo) is able to detect any undesirable content and take them down within 60 seconds,” said Ong, “Let’s say if you are livestreaming a session and you have a picture of a gun, that is next to you, immediately the system will pick it up and it will stop the livestreaming.” I asked him about Bigo’s disturbing brush with child pornography in the past, and he mentioned that “it was a very steep learning curve for (Bigo)” and that they have “continued to evolve along the way”. I had to ask a Bigo insider, and I luckily was able to talk to the Vice President of Bigo Technology Mike Ong. The concern I had for that is ‘what about content that isn’t reported?’ According to Bigo
I know!'” said Isadora.īesides that, they shared how people who enter a room to find inappropriate content needs to press ‘report’ to get the stream investigated. But then he said ‘No, but I saw her Live upstairs. I already told the receptionist to not say anything, because it’s for my safety, too. He went to my office and asked ‘Does Isadora work here?’. They know where our office is, and what we say. “Because we’re live every day, and we tell them where we are. Isadora opened up about how she had a stalker walk right into her office to look for her. However, with such a big audience, they have to be careful balancing between their own lives and their lives on Bigo. Their fans and viewers would send ‘Beans’, which turn into real money-just like ‘ Bits‘ on Twitch. They mentioned that they’ve earned up to RM15,000 a month through live-broadcasting. I talked to Jaysung and Isadora, popular local Bigo Broadcasters, about the questions I’ve had after looking through Bigo Live myself. Although you don’t see them besides their feet, it’s still a bit sick. There’s also a livestream of someone taking a shower. The comment section is sometimes severely blunt, asking the broadcasters to “turn around” and “dance pls”-among other things. But what I couldn’t believe was how easy it was to find content of people with low cut tops, or dance seductively. Most of them are just individuals talking to their fans, or audiences. However, those only made up a small percentage of the ‘Showbiz’ content page. There are plenty streams of religious sermons, as well as DJ sets and exercise classes.