Why a delay in Teams Live Event?

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Why a delay in Teams Live Event?

Mikael Ahremark 1

Hi,

Why is there a delay in Teams Live Event? This is not used by any other tools like Zoom or Webex and why even call it "Live", if it is not live. It also becomes very confusing if you need fast interaction between presenters and the audience.

I can understand that you might want to have a delay (if you are afraid of someone saying or doing bad stuff), but that is very rare and in almost all live events you just want to broadcast directly. Can't the delay be configurable if you want to use it or not?
Remove the delay or at least make it configurable, please.

Best regards
Mikael Ahremark

James Fike 1 Reputation point

2022-04-06T16:39:10.443+00:00

I'm evaluating MS Teams Live Events and this delay is not going to work for us. Makes the town halls very awkward. I will we will stick with GTW for now.

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James Fike 1 Reputation point

2022-04-06T16:39:10.443+00:00

I'm evaluating MS Teams Live Events and this delay is not going to work for us. Makes the town halls very awkward. I will we will stick with GTW for now.

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JimmyYang-MSFT 58,641 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @Mikael Ahremark

Welcome to Q&A forum!

As you said above, Microsoft Teams live event has 15 to 60 second delay from the time a media stream is broadcast to when attendees see it. Unfortunately it did not provide such options for users to adjust the delay of Live Event now. As a workaround, you could make someone who don't want to have delay to become a presenter.

In this way, we recommend you that please give a feedback to Teams UserVoice. Microsoft will always focus on customer’s feedback and experience. Some new features would be added to the services based on customers' feedback in the future, and your good ideas will be very helpful for them to improve the service.

Your time, understanding and cooperation will be highly appreciated.

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JimmyYang-MSFT 58,641 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-11-16T08:53:40.58+00:00

@Mikael Ahremark

Just checking in to see if above information was helpful. If you have any further updates on this issue, please feel free to post back.
Mikael Ahremark 1 Reputation point

2021-11-16T10:01:46.887+00:00

Thanks Jimmy,
We want the hundreds of participants on our events to be able to interact live, but without needing to make them a presenter (that would just stir up a lot of other issues and the reason to have Teams Live event is just to have a controlled and "silent" audience).

So the big question of why there is a delay is still unanswered.

In a normal Teams meeting, there is no delay and the communication networks of today goes towards even less delays (5G). Why is then this delay implemented at the first place?
JimmyYang-MSFT 58,641 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-11-19T10:03:25.663+00:00

Hi @Mikael Ahremark

Why there is a delay is Teams live event?

For Teams attendees, it is similar like the meeting recorded then upload and send the media flow to each attendees. In other words, live event is not a real-time meeting. So it will have the delay for attendees,
JimmyYang-MSFT 58,641 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2021-11-30T09:05:55.777+00:00

@Mikael Ahremark

It has been a while, how is everything going?
If you have any update about this issue, please feel free to post back.

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