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{{Infobox project
| title = Livestream
| logo = Vimeo-livestream-logo.png
| image = Livestream-screenshot.png
| URL = https://livestream.com/
| description = Video hosting site
| project_status = {{closing}}
| archiving_status = {{saved}}
| archiving_type = DPoS
| lead = [[User:arkiver|arkiver]]
| irc = deadtrickle
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/livestream-grab livestream-grab], [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/livestream-items livestream-items]
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/livestream/ livestream]
| data = {{IA id|archiveteam_livestream}}
}}

'''Livestream''' is a general-purpose live streaming video website, originally started in 2007 as Mogulus, and gained its well-known name in May 2009. Though it offered free options to ordinary users like its competitors in [[Ustream]] and [[Justin.tv]], Livestream was most popular amongst businesses and other well-off organizations (including Gannett/USA Today, NPR, Global TV, C-SPAN, [https://web.archive.org/web/20090930094516/http://www.livestream.com/platform/customers and many others]) who were able to afford [https://web.archive.org/web/20091224061340/http://www.livestream.com/platform/premium_features_and_pricing its premium offerings] that featured ad-free streaming as well as enhanced encoding limits and higher VOD storage quotas. It was most successful during the turn of the 2010s.

Livestream's popularity waned considerably throughout the mid and late-2010s as Justin.tv's successor [[Twitch]] allowed general-purpose/"IRL" streams and as other platforms like [[YouTube]] and [[Facebook]]/[[Instagram]] allowed for live streams on their sites as well. This did not discourage premium video host [[Vimeo]] from purchasing the service in 2017 though, and in the years since Vimeo integrated Livestream's premium plans and functionalities into its own site and adapted its encoder, Livestream Studio, for use on Vimeo.

== Shutdown ==
Vimeo began in 2023 [https://help.vimeo.com/hc/en-us/articles/18937759902225-FAQs-Migrating-from-Livestream-to-Vimeo a process to discontinue Livestream as a discrete service], instead pushing remaining users onto Vimeo's own livestreaming plans. Vimeo stated a January 2025 EOL, but no specific date the plug would be pulled was shared. Vimeo also stated that it would continue development of Livestream Studio even after Livestream is unplugged.