After testing the feature for a few weeks with a few select users, Google+ Hangouts on Air opens up Live Q&A for all broadcasters to take question from audience.
Google+ Hangouts on Air has been popular way to broadcast live to millions of users. Many high profile people and events have used Hangouts on Air, from Barack Obama to the Red Bull Stratos Space Dive. To improve audience precipitation during live broadcasts, Google has today introduced a new feature called 'Live Q&A', which will be the first of many new features to improve viewer engagement.
Do you plan on setting up any Hangouts on Air using the new Live Q&A feature?
Google's Live Broadcasting tool, Hangouts on Air, has today improved communication with audience to the broadcaster by adding live Q&A. Allowing users to ask questions during a Live Hangout on Air.
With Live Q&A, broadcasts can now take questions from all viewers, select and answer the question live. Questions can be then marked as answered, which will timestamp the question in the YouTube recording. Viewers watching the broadcaster later from YouTube, will be able to see the questions in the comments field and use the timestamp to find them.
In addition, viewers watching the broadcast live can ask questions and vote on questions to be answered.
The Live Q&A feature will be rolling out to Hangouts on Air over the next few days, users can use the feature on desktop and view-only on Android.
While you wait to the use the new feature, you can check out an interview that Vic Gundotra did using the new feature.
Do you plan on setting up any Hangouts on Air using the new Live Q&A feature?