Live Broadcasts
A room, not an audience.
A webinar puts your people in rows, facing a screen. An interactive meeting puts them in a room together — every face live, every voice in the conversation.
What we mean
Most online events are a broadcast in the older sense of the word: one signal, many receivers. People watch. They can type in a box. The organiser hopes the questions come, and mostly they do not. Everyone is an audience, and an audience is passive by design.
An interactive meeting is built the other way around. Each person joins on their own camera, and a director chooses, second by second, who fills the screen: one speaker, two side by side, or three in conversation. Names and titles appear as people speak. Slides and graphics arrive on cue.
Participants are inside the conversation, not watching a stream of it.
The effect is a room. People turn to each other. They interrupt, they agree, they lean in. Nobody is waiting for their turn in a queue, because there is no queue — there is a director reading the conversation and showing the room what it needs to see. That is the whole point, and it is hard to picture until you have sat inside one.
How an interactive broadcast works
The frame is directed, not fixed.
Full frame
Two speakers
Three speakers
Real moments from our live broadcasts, showing how the picture changes as the conversation moves.
- The director
- One person watches every stream and decides, second by second, what the room sees. It is the same instinct that runs a live outside broadcast, applied to a meeting.
- The control desk
- The director’s control desk puts two or three people on screen together and cuts between them cleanly, so the picture always follows the conversation.
- Names and graphics on screen
- Each speaker’s name and title appears along the bottom of the screen, with your branding, right on cue.
- Every voice, front and centre
- Each person joins on their own camera, which lets the director choose who fills the screen instead of everyone shrinking into tiles.
Where we have run it
We have directed interactive broadcasts for organisations that could not afford the day to fail.
- University of Cape Town
- Vodacom
Owner slot: a short line on each named interactive broadcast — what the event was, who was in the room, and what it achieved — belongs here, with the client’s permission to name it.
Six years inside Office Hours Global
Office Hours Global is a daily international production community, and we have been part of it for six years. Dr Hasmukh Gajjar sits on the panel. That is where the interactive-meeting craft is practised, argued over and refined every day — which is why the format runs cleanly when the date cannot move.
Bring us the date. We will make it a room.
Tell us what the event is for and who needs to be in it. A free 15-minute consultation is usually enough to say whether an interactive broadcast is the right shape.
Need a room to broadcast from? The studio is available to hire, with or without our crew and cameras.
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