This column is going to focus on Periscope, Facebook Live, and YouTube Mobile Live Streaming. They represent the lions and tigers and bears, oh my, in the live streaming app category. What about Meerkat? Well, if I’d written this column at the beginning of the year, then it might have been titled, “Meerkat, Periscope, and Facebook Live, oh my!” But, the landscape in this category shifted a few months ago, and, with the roll-out of YouTube Mobile Live Streaming, something had to give. Hey, I’ve never heard a joke that starts, “Four people with live streaming apps walk into a bar….”
