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. It does not consume that user's public archive allowance.
- Past recording
- A recording from someone else's watchlist, made before you discovered the live. It can be opened from the BigoRec website within the user's rolling archive allowance and delivered to Telegram with a 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.