UB40 and live-streaming studio Bulldog DM announced the British band’s first-ever livestream performance will air on YouTube Wednesday during their live show at the Uptown Theater in Napa. The concert will be part of a two-hour broadcast on the band’s YouTube page starting at 8 p.m.
Read the article on Billboard here–> UB40 to Livestream Napa Show on YouTube
YouTube turned to the Bulldog DM team once again to help power and present ‘the first ever interactive gaming livestream’ – an interactive livestream experience on August 27th. The show featured 60 of the top YouTube gaming creators who collectively represent 400 Million subscribers and 150 Billion lifetime views. Viewers were able to play along by voting in real time on unique gaming challenges and influence how the stream will played out.
Watch the replay here –> YouTube Game On
CHIKA returned to the concert stage to take fans on a magical, musical journey in Los Angeles, including the live debut of selections from her hit 2021 EP, Once Upon A Time as part of the latest installment of AT&T’s Emerging Voices series. CHIKA performed at Valentine in Downtown LA on Thursday June 30 in a transformed setting that included a magic mirror experience where fans could interact with CHIKA and pose questions. AT&T turned again to Bulldog DM to produce and power the livestream on AT&T and CHIKA’s Instagram accounts as well as YouTube.
Visit AT&T Emerging Voices –> AT&T Emerging Voices
Spotify’s Spotify for Artists platform launched In Focus “a brand new interactive tool we’ve built to help artists of all shapes and sizes better navigate their careers, regardless of what they are trying to achieve. It’s like a magic 8 ball: tell us what you want to see in your music future, and we’ll give you what you need to achieve what matters most to you. Think of things like: level up your songwriting, tour smarter, build your brand, turbo-charge monetization.” In Focus features a podcast interview with Bulldog DM CEO John Petrocelli walking artists through the finer points and best practice strategies for livestreaming.
Visit In Focus here and hear the podcast on Spotify –> Spotify In Focus
Streaming Media’s Tim Siglin and Bulldog DM’s John Petrocelli discuss how tentpole live streaming events have changed over the last three years for the streaming pros who deliver them, the audiences that engage with them, and the brands that invest in them in this interview from Streaming Media East 2022 in Boston.
Watch here –> Streaming Media interviews Bulldog DM
Bulldog DM participated in Canadian Music Week’s 20022 40th annual conference on a panel discussion entitled: “Couch-ella: The Lingering Role of Live-streaming in Live Music”. The panel discussed lessons learned from the pandemic and where the music industry is headed with livestreaming. Participating companies included FlyMachine, Tiny Kingdom and Doze Management.
Visit Canadian Music Week –> Canadian Music Week
Bulldog DM Founder and CEO John Petrocelli participated in two panels at the streaming media industry’s leading trade conference, Streaming Media East in Boston. During the conference livestreaming at scale track, Petrocelli was a featured panelist for his expert insights on ‘Delivering Reliable Livestreams at Scale’ and ‘Scaling for the Demands of Live Audience’ with representatives from Akamai, StackPath, LiveX, Synamedia, and EZDRM.
Visit Streamingmedia.com –> Streaming Media
Multi-platinum rockers the Black Keys hit the stage at the iconic Troubadour in LA for an intimate performance on livestreaming platform Flymachine. Flymachine turned to Bulldog DM to support the multicamera video production and encoding for this dynamic performance ahead of the band’s new record release. Fans could buy tickets on the interactive Flymachine platform to enjoy and interact with their friends during the show.
Visit Flymachine for more live music –> Flymachine
Three-time GRAMMY® Award-nominated, multi-platinum, singer/songwriter Camila Cabello partnered with TikTok to present Familia: Welcome to the Family, an immersive and inventive music experience exclusively released via a TikTok livestream. “The performance was created using eye-popping XR, augmenting Camila’s singing and choreography with immersive visual effects bringing Camila’s creativity to her fans like never before.”
“Camila creates an engrossing virtual world for each song she performs, leading the audience on a surreal journey through an ever-shifting reality. Familia: Welcome To The Family is a one-of-a-kind experience you don’t want to miss.” TikTok engaged Bulldog DM to help execute the stunning broadcast experience and 3 global re-airings.
Read more here –> TikTok Presents an Immersive Musical Performance with Camila Cabello
AT&T’s Block Party experience at the Final Four culminated in a breathtaking concert by alternative rock icons, Arcade Fire from their adopted home city of New Orleans. AT&T offered viewers a curated live, choose your view concert experience from the AT&T 5G Concert Lens powered by Bulldog DM. Fans enjoyed instantaneous and immediate camera angle switching and stereo audio during the Arcade Fire set that regularly switched from black and white to color. Fans were also treated to sets from King Princess and Preservation Hall Jazz Band with aspects of the production workflow shot on Samsung’s new Galaxy S22 Ultra devices. The experience was simulcast on both AT&T and Arcade Fire’s instagram accounts using Bulldog DM’s premium IG live capability.
Visit AT&T 5G Concert Lens –> AT&T 5G Concert Lens