My concept of an app Google could develop if they decided to enter the mobile live stream space.

What’s the first website you think of when I say “video”?

For most people, the answer is probably YouTube. Why then has it not entered the mobile live stream space yet?

With the introduction of Facebook Live, it won’t be long before Google releases their version of a broadcasting app. As of today, the space is mainly dominated by three services, Meerkat, Periscope, and Facebook Live.

Rather than create a completely new service, I believe Google would use the existing infrastructure of YouTube and introduce their mobile live streaming service as YouTube Live.

YouTube already has a live streaming feature, however, it’s built for the web and it hasn’t caught on by the general public due to that fact. More and more people are carrying around a smartphone where they are not only consuming content, but creating it too. It would only make sense to target this audience with a mobile-specific experience. And that’s where YouTube Live will come in: