In-house product · in development for iOS and Android
Every news channel is live. That's why live tells you nothing.
NewsLives watches 302 newsrooms around the clock and tells you the moment one starts covering something. Not that it's on air. That it's moving.
- Free
- iOS and Android
- No account needed to watch
- Al Jazeera EnglishQatar 1.1× baseline
- Channels TVNigeria BREAKING
- Sky NewsUnited Kingdom 1.3× baseline
- NDTV 24x7India 0.9× baseline
- France 24France 1.2× baseline
Tick marks the 2.5× threshold. Each channel against its own baseline.
A channel doesn't go live. It gets busy.
So NewsLives doesn't watch for a broadcast starting. It watches the audience. Every channel is measured against its own running baseline, never against another channel's.
- Signal
The broadcaster says so
A stream retitled to "Breaking", "Special report" or "Urgent" is the clearest signal there is, on the occasions they bother to retitle it.
- Signal
Or the audience says so
Viewers past 2.5× the channel's own moving average, and past an absolute floor. Forty viewers becoming a hundred and twenty is three people telling their friends, not a news event.
- Release
Then it lets go
The flag clears after three consecutive quiet checks, or ninety minutes, whichever comes first. A permanent alert is the same as no alert.
It's a measurement, not an opinion. NewsLives has no view on whether a story matters, only on whether a newsroom's audience thinks it does.
302 newsrooms, and not one of them ours.
Every channel is the broadcaster's own official stream, played through their own player. NewsLives is the instrument pointed at them.
What it doesn't do.
Write the news
Not a word of it. NewsLives is a directory and a viewer; each broadcaster is responsible for its own output.
Rank by viewpoint
Order is: breaking first, then your own country and language, then live audience. Nothing else goes into it.
Track you
No location, no contacts, no advertising identifiers, no third-party ad networks. Watch without an account at all.
Alert you constantly
Alerts fire when coverage breaks, not when a channel goes on air. Otherwise they'd fire all day and you'd switch them off.
Be told, not notified.
NewsLives is in development for iOS and Android. Ask for early access and you'll hear when there's a build to try.
NewsLives is built by Dexter Cyberlab, Abuja.