15 Periscope best practices:
- Have the right equipment—a rig or a tripod, a full battery and a smartphone or tablet with the app installed—if you don’t have the equipment you can find it on Amazon
- Make sure your smartphone is fully charged
- Make sure you have wifi or a 4G connection from the place you will be broadcasting from
- Appropriately title your broadcast
- Have a call to action in the title so people know what to do or ask when they open the broadcast
- Share it socially with your followers and friends
- Be consistent with hashtags and other conversations or broadcasts you are performing at the time
- Hold your smartphone vertically — changing to landscape doesn’t re-calibrate the broadcast and you end up with a weird viewing angle
- Use the top 3rd of the screen—commentary will block the view of what’s going on if it’s switched on
- Flip the camera, if you are interviewing yourself or talking to the audience have the camera facing you—if you’re shooting a scene, make sure you flip the camera
- Be aware of mirroring—if you are filming with the front camera, text and other gestures will appear mirrored and make it difficult for the audience to see
- Ask questions of the audience—everyone loves to give their opinion
- Answer questions in real-time to avoid frustration
- Encourage positive feedback by asking your audience to double tap to agree if typing isn’t conducive
- Remember Periscope is a mobile-first application and that your broadcast will be global. With that in mind, you may get unusual questions—luckily you can pause commentary and block offensive users. http://blog.ketchum.com/15-periscope-twitter-tips/