Katy Perry could ‘embrace the future’ by live-streaming her gigs using Meerkat or Periscope
Pop star Katy Perry has admitted that she could implement live-streaming apps into her future performances to share the experience with those who cannot attend her concerts.
Perry made the announcement following a busy week for live-streaming apps which saw Twitter launch Periscope hours before rival Meerkat announced it had raised an estimated $14m in funding on Thursday.
The musician and pop icon told Mashable: “You've got to embrace the future or you're left behind.”
On-live streaming from mobile, she said: "I'm with it. I think that, when you see a phone, that is like the new applause.
"So people used to applaud; now the more phones you see, you can just count it as the amount of applause that there would be... I embrace them mostly as long as they're not obtrusive.
The artist is known for stopping during performances to take selfies with fans and she has admitted that live-streaming could be an evolution of that process.