live feeds

Instant video transmissions

Live feeds are real-time broadcasts or streams of video, audio, or data—content transmitted as it happens rather than recorded for later viewing.

News networks show live feeds from correspondents in the field.

Social media platforms let users broadcast live feeds to followers.

Security systems display live feeds from surveillance cameras.

The plural emphasizes multiple simultaneous sources: The control room monitors live feeds from cameras throughout the building.

Opposites
temporal immediacy

live feedsrecordings

Stored audio or video

replays · playback · reruns · VOD · delayed broadcast

content dynamism

live feedsphotographs

Light-captured images

snapshots

content currency

live feedshistorical recordings

Archived sound from earlier times

back catalog · legacy media

Family

live, lively, alive, survive, revive, livestock, revived, livelihood, enliven

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G