Bigo Live starts education channel to reach tier-II & III audience

The app, which has over 100 million installations on Google Play Store, is starting with English and soft skills training classes through live streaming and aims to include other subjects gradually

Live streaming platform Bigo Live has said it has launched an education channel, in an attempt to move away from the earlier focus on entertainment and other user-led activity that has attracted external criticism. 

The app has over 100 million installs on Google Play Store. It is initially launching English and soft skill training classes through live streaming. The aim is to gradually expand to other subjects. The app ran an experimental project in tier-2 and tier-3 cities for a month; it said the response was ‘encouraging’. Bigo Live has hired around 70 teachers under the English programme and aims to