Bigo Live Glossary
24 terms covering Bigo lives, gifting, recording, and BigoRec features.
- Live
- A real-time video broadcast on Bigo. Creators stream to viewers, who can join, comment, and send gifts. Lives have no fixed time limit.
- Replay
- A recording of a finished live, made available by the creator after the broadcast ends. Optional and disabled by default. Most lives have no replay.
- Room
- Bigo's internal name for a live session. Each new live generates a fresh room ID. Rooms cannot be joined after the live ends.
- Room ID
- Numeric identifier for a specific live session. Used by recording tools to fetch the stream URL. Changes every time a creator starts a new live.
- FYP
- For You Page. Bigo's algorithmic feed of short videos. Lives can appear at the top of the FYP if the algorithm promotes them.
- Gift
- Virtual item viewers send to creators during a live. Costs Coins. Creators receive Diamonds in return, which can be cashed out.
- Coin
- Bigo's virtual currency, purchased with real money. Spent on Gifts. 1 USD buys roughly 65-70 Coins.
- Diamond
- Currency creators earn from Gifts. Two Diamonds equal one Coin in value. Creators withdraw earnings in Diamonds.
- Top Gifter
- Highest-spending viewer in a live. Shown publicly on the leaderboard. Often gets pinned messages or shoutouts.
- Mod
- Moderator. Trusted viewer with permission to mute or block users in a live. Appointed by the creator.
- Battle
- Bigo LIVE Battle. Two creators face off in a live, viewers send gifts to vote. The creator with more gifts wins. Common monetization format.
- Multi-guest
- Bigo feature allowing multiple creators in one live session. Viewers see a split-screen layout.
- LIVE Studio
- Bigo's desktop streaming software. Lets creators broadcast from a PC instead of a phone.
- LIVE Subscription
- Monthly subscription tier where viewers pay a creator directly for badges, emotes, and subscriber-only chat. Similar to Twitch Subs.
- Boost
- Paid feature that pushes a live higher in the FYP for a limited window.
- Watermark
- Bigo's overlay on downloaded videos. Lives recorded from the source via tools like BigoRec arrive without watermarks.
- Watchlist
- BigoRec's list of Bigo creators you want to auto-record. Add a username and BigoRec records every future live.
- MP4
- Standard video file format. BigoRec delivers all recordings as MP4.
- FLV
- Flash Video format. Bigo's live streams use FLV at the source. Recorders convert FLV to MP4 for compatibility.
- Source quality
- The original resolution and bitrate of a Bigo live, before any screen-recording compression. BigoRec keeps that quality when delivering the MP4.
- Watchlist recording
- A recording made because a creator was on someone's watchlist. Free to that user and to anyone else via the public archive.
- Past recording
- A recording from someone else's watchlist, made before you discovered the live. Free to open from the BigoRec website and delivered to your Telegram chat as an album with thumbnail. Each tracked creator has a dedicated archive at bigoliverec.com/missed/[username].
- Auto-record
- BigoRec mode where recordings start automatically when a watched creator goes live, with no manual intervention needed.
- Subathon
- Stream format where viewer subscriptions or gifts extend the live. Subathons routinely run 24+ hours.