Bambuser AB is a Swedish company, founded in 2007. Bambuser provides a platform for mobile live video streaming. In 2014, Bambuser shifted focus to their B2B offering, providing mobile live video for brands, organizations and app developers. Bambuser's HQ is situated in Stockholm, Sweden, with an office in Turku, Finland. The Swedish office concentrates on business development, marketing and European sales, while the Turku office focuses on technology and development. In May 2017, Bambuser was listed on Nasdaq First North stock exchange.
Bambuser's Mobile Live Video Platform
Bambuser offers an end-to-end solution for live streaming that companies use to integrate live video in their workflows and apps.
Bambuser Broadcaster app
The broadcaster app allows users to go live directly from their iOS or Android device. Broadcasts can be managed live and has been
Bambuser SDKs allow developers to integrate live video broadcasting and playback in mobile apps.
History
Bambuser started out as an online community that was an interactive mobile videostreaming platform which enabled users to effortlessly stream and share live video using a smartphone or a computer equipped with a webcam. In addition to being accessible on the Bambuser website, broadcasts were also able to be shared on various social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Blogger, to name a few. The Bambuser community was a free to use service for private individuals and representatives of charities.
Bambuser Community in the Media
In 2010, Finnish broadcasting channel YLE adopted Bambuser as an alternative platform for their online and news broadcasts. This allowed YLE to get more live-coverage on their webpage, and allowed the viewers to interact with the reporters on the scene. In November 2010, Bambuser was one of the finalists in The Europas, the European Startup Awards. 33,126 votes were cast across 23 categories, and eight judges deliberated over the results. On January 1, 2011, the Swedish Pirate party celebrated its five-year anniversary with a Bambuser live broadcast with party leaderRick Falkvinge and vice party leader Anna Troberg. Live in the video, Falkvinge sent a tweet saying he stepped down as party leader, and he announced that his successor would be Troberg.
During the demonstrations in Egypt, Bambuser was blocked by the government. Shortly thereafter most of the country's internet traffic was restricted. During this blackout, Bambuser set up a special Egypt page on their website, collecting all the streams originating from Egypt and the protests on Tahrir Square. This page later evolved into the North Africa/Middle East page. During the protests in Bahrain, a similar situation emerged, as government officials blocked access to the Bambuser homepage. In the Syrian civil war, Bambuser was used to a great extent by citizen journalists in an effort to document and raise awareness of the events taking place inside the country. On 17 February 2012, Syria was reported to have blocked access to the Bambuser website. During the Gezi protests in Turkey, citizens started broadcasting the police violence and oppression of the AKP regime with the Bambuser app. As a response, the Prime Ministry banned Bambuser in Turkey illegally, without a court decision. The ban was still ongoing as 4 April 2014.
Associated Press
are stakeholders in Bambuser, and are active users. Thousands of AP reporters worldwide are equipped with the Bambuser app for capturing and broadcasting live video and photo content. AP entered into a partnership deal connected to the Bambuser Community in April 2012. Since then, users of the Bambuser service have had the option to share their broadcasts with the AP. The partnership enables AP to use Bambuser as a source for user-generated content coming from citizen journalists. In addition to sharing the actual content, users were required to disclose some form of contact information which enables AP to verify the authenticity of the broadcast material and properly credit the author. On June 20, 2013 the partnership between the two companies was extended when the AP announced their purchase of a minority stake in Bambuser.
