Ustream
First created in March 2007, Ustream.tv is a widely unknown website that consists of a large arrangement of various genred channels, providing an Internet platform for 'life casting' and live video streaming across the world. Today, the site has over 2,000,000 registered users who generate over 1.500,000 hours of freely available video content to be streamed live per month! The website normally gets around 10,000,000 unique hits per month, making the site a popular choice for big events, such as the 2008 US Presidential election. In this case, almost all of the major candidates used the site to aid their campaigns as this source of 'new media' has proved such a hit with the younger target voters. This enabled the voters to freely ask questions to the candidates that they may otherwise not have been able to ask.
The free availability of Ustream has one it several coveted awards, such as a 'Peoples choice award' and 'CNET webware 100' award.
RadioBOX
RadioBOX is a unique radio broadcasting platform that assembles most of the radio shows that are being broadcast across the Internet at one time into one place. This enables listeners to tune in worldwide to their station of choice with great ease. The many stations are categorised by their broadcasting country, or genre making them very easy to locate. Within the site they offer another free platform for the listener to use, this being an app for your iPhone. This brings an element of portability to the network, increasing the listening figures greatly.
RadioBOX recently started user submissions of radio stations, meaning that the database they use is increasing vastly on a daily basis.
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