Ustream cans its Live Mobilizer app in favour of Mobile Roadie deal

Livestreaming service's broadcasters will now be invited to use Mobile Roadie's platform to broadcast - and charge viewers.

Livestreaming video startup Ustream is discontinuing its Live Mobilizer mobile application, which its users have been broadcasting live video from their phones with.

Instead, the company has inked a deal with apps platform Mobile Roadie, and will be encouraging its users to migrate to the latter's apps to continue their livestreaming.

The new platform will enable users to send push notifications to their audiences when they start broadcasting, check in to streams to share them on Facebook and Twitter, collect real-time analytics and location data on viewers (opt-in, presumably), and allow those users to chat to one another while watching.

Perhaps most importantly, partnering with Mobile Roadie will allow Ustream broadcasters to charge for mobile access to their streams on a one-off or monthly subscription basis. That could be useful for a number of the music artists using Ustream, for example.

Ustream has more than 50 million unique views of its streams every month, so it's a sizeable deal from Mobile Roadie's perspective.