Can you name that Holiday ad while we dog food StreamAlive?
The latest news from StreamAlive and the world of online, offline, and hybrid live events.
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Join us for the holiday ads trivia quiz livestream!
Why we’re going back to dog-fooding our product
Get up to $100 when you refer a friend
Can you name that holiday ad?
If you think you know your holiday ads and like a bit of trivia, then please join us today (December 12th) at 11am EST || 4pm GMT || 5pm CET.
We’ll be streaming live at the same time on YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitch, and Kick so you can join in and test your Holiday ads knowledge on your preferred platform!
What is “dog fooding”?
In the SaaS world, dog fooding your product means that you use your product in the same way that you hope your customers will use it.
For example, if Mailchimp built, managed and broadcast its emails using its own app, then in tech terms, it’s dog fooding its product.
The biggest reason to do this is that it provides the company employees with real empathy for the challenges and roadblocks that their users might face.
In other words, walk a mile in someone else's shoes to understand their problems.
Dog-fooding StreamAlive. Again.
Last year and earlier this year we ran the StreamAlive showcase events where we brought experts from different walks of life to talk with the StreamAlive community.
We used a simple Zoom set up to run these events, and overall they were very successful - nearly 3,000 people joined us in the events.
The down side was that finding experts, coordinating schedules, promoting the events, and the general logistics involved was taking up more and more time.
We want to continue to use StreamAlive and dog food the product, but this time we’re going to take a different approach.
Public livestreaming instead of closed events
Now that we have the StreamAlive Chrome Extension available, it opens up StreamAlive to be used on multiple streaming sites via platforms like Restream, StreamYard, and the fast growing EVMux (will soon be supported by StreamAlive).
To get the word out that StreamAlive is for any type of live session, we’re going all-in on livestreaming.
This is the goal: Every day we’ll be streaming about something. Whether it’s for 20 minutes or an hour, or longer, we’re going to be streaming every day.
Our livestreaming schedule
Hopefully you can join us today (no registration required, just turn up on the livestream) for our Holiday Ads live quiz on one of the streaming platforms, but trivia isn’t the only thing we’ll be streaming about.
(Lux and Donkin probably won’t be hosting all our livestreams, but they look so handsome we decided to use their profile pics on the banners!)
MVP Mondays
Did you know that we make product updates twice a week? In MVP Mondays we’ll be covering what’s new with StreamAlive.
Testing Tuesdays
We want you to break our app! Have you faced any bugs or found something that didn’t work the way you wanted it? Testing Tuesdays is a livestream of our weekly internal testing session but now it’s open for everyone to join!
Workshop Wednesdays
We’re inviting interesting guests to join us for a fireside chat with the floor open to questions from the entire audience.
Trivia Thursdays
We’ll be running a weekly quiz livestream using StreamAlive’s quizzing interaction. Test your knowledge on a variety of topics!
Freestyle Fridays
We’ll be taking the biggest news of the week and discussing it in a freewheeling conversation where you are welcome to join and give your thoughts!
Keep up to date on all our livestreams on our Luma page.
Give your friends 10% off StreamAlive, and you get up to $100
We now have a way for you to gift your friends (colleagues, acquaintances, peers, social media followers, etc.) 10% off when they upgrade to any paid plan on StreamAlive.
As a thank you for referring your network, we’ll give you a 20% recurring commission up to $100 on each user you refer.
Our referral program is open to every StreamAlive user (get your free account if you don’t already have one).
How to get started
Log in to your account, find the Refer a friend option in the menu and you will find a unique referral link to share.
Good to know…
The referral program is open to anyone who can accept PayPal or Venmo payments.
You’ll be paid at the end of each month for the previous month’s commissions.
You can use your referral link on social media, in private message groups, on your website, or anywhere else you have an audience.
Got any questions? Email us at hi@streamalive.com.
Catch us on our social pages
If you haven’t already, check out our social media pages to stay updated on our quirky takes on the latest social media trends and the occasional piece of engagement-related advice.
All the best,
Peter and the StreamAlive team