5 Must-Know Bigo Live Features That Every User Should Try

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Live streaming has evolved far beyond simply broadcasting in real time. Platforms like Bigo Live are shaping a more interactive, engaging digital space where connection happens in many forms. Whether it's joining a conversation, sending a digital gift, or competing in a live showdown, each feature brings something different to the table.

While some may already be familiar with options like Chamet recharge or Bigo diamonds recharge, there's more to the ecosystem, especially with platforms like Joytify making it easier to support streamers and access premium features. Here are five essential features on Bigo Live that are worth exploring in full.

1. Live Streaming

The core of Bigo Live is its live streaming feature. This is where creators can share daily moments, perform talents, or just connect through real-time conversation with people. Streaming can be done through mobile devices with minimal setup, making it accessible and spontaneous.

Many use this space to build an audience, receive gifts, or simply express themselves through talk or entertainment. Viewers can drop in anytime and leave comments or reactions, creating a loop of instant engagement. The casual yet immersive format is what makes live streaming on Bigo so widely used.

2. Virtual Gifts

Bigo Live introduces a system of virtual gifts, turning appreciation into a tangible exchange. Viewers can send items like roses, cars, or animated effects using diamonds, which can be purchased through platforms that support Bigo diamonds recharge. These gifts are not just decorative, they hold real value and can support streamers financially.

The act of giving also opens up recognition within the stream, often placing the sender on leaderboards or featured lists. This gamifies the experience subtly, while still feeling organic and voluntary. For many, gifting is a way to be seen and appreciated during a stream.

3. PK (Player Kill)

PK battles bring a competitive twist to streaming. Two streamers go live together, with their audiences voting, gifting, or commenting to support their favorite. The format usually includes a timer, and the one with the higher interaction score wins the match. It’s not always about rivalry, but PK can also be playful, creative, or even used as a collaboration between friends.

Audience participation becomes crucial, turning a simple stream into an event. These sessions often attract more views and engagement, especially when the chemistry between both hosts is strong. PK gives a structured reason to join a live and stay until the end.

4. Multi-Guest Rooms

Multi-guest rooms allow up to nine streamers to go live together in a single screen layout. It’s commonly used for talk shows, open mic nights, or casual group chats where themes shift with the crowd. The format encourages longer watch times, as conversations feel dynamic and unpredictable.

Hosts can control who joins and moderate the tone of the room, ensuring balance between fun and order. For viewers, it’s a chance to discover new faces through interaction with familiar ones. Multi-guest rooms highlight the social core of Bigo Live beyond solo content.

5. Game Streaming

Game streaming on Bigo Live is where gameplay meets community interaction. It allows streamers to share mobile games or connect from PC, broadcasting gameplay alongside live commentary. Unlike traditional platforms that focus heavily on professional setups, Bigo keeps it casual and mobile-friendly.

Audiences can chat during the stream, ask questions, or support with gifts just like in any other live. Many game streamers use this format to build tight-knit circles of fans around specific titles. It blends entertainment and conversation, especially for those who follow game content in real time.

All these features show how Bigo Live has become more than a place to stream, it’s an ecosystem where interaction and creativity are encouraged through tools built right into the app. For those who wish to join in more actively, either by sending support or unlocking features, Bigo diamonds recharge options are widely used. Platforms like Joytify make this process straightforward, offering safe and reliable top-up services that connect directly to in-app currency systems.

Whether it’s to gift a favorite streamer or simply explore what Bigo has to offer, having access to diamonds makes the experience more complete. Joytify offers an easy way to recharge without hassle, so the focus stays on enjoying the stream, not managing the transaction.

Baring the ‘silent violence’ of Philippine jails

 

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Conversations about Philippine jail congestion often begin and end with statistics: thousands of case backlogs, cells built for 50 crammed with 200 bodies, and facilities straining at 300 to 400 percent beyond capacity. Yet these numbers barely capture the everyday human cost of overcrowding. 

What does punishment feel like when confinement overwhelms the senses?

 

A makeshift dining area inside a Philippine jail, where PDLs share meals–capturing how ordinary routines like mealtimes occur within sensory confinement, overcrowding, and silent resilience. SOURCE: Antojado, 2025.

New research at the Ateneo de Manila University shifts attention from numbers to lived experience, examining how carceral punishment in Philippine jails extends far beyond legal sentences by permeating every bodily sense. 

Dwayne Antojado is no stranger to these conditions, having served time himself in Australia for insurance fraud. His lived understanding of imprisonment shapes his engagement with persons deprived of liberty (PDLs) in Davao and Zamboanga City Jails.

He found that confinement inflicts overlapping sensory overload—sight, sound, touch, and smell—creating a persistent, invisible form of shackles that Antojado calls “silent violence.”

Oppressive prison air

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the prison air itself. Poor ventilation and tropical humidity trap the stench of bodily fluids, ineffective cleaning chemicals, sweat-soaked clothes, sourness of leftover foods, and the pervasive reek of shared toilets. Odors cling to everything, lingering even in visitors’ memories. Physical sensation also offers no relief. Overcrowded cells radiate heat, with wall-mounted fans merely circulating warm and foul air. 

The sounds and visuals of confinement compound this sensory burden. Punctuated by constant hums: sporadic shouts, clanging gates, whirring fans, blaring televisions, and synchronized greetings to officials, make quiet nearly impossible. Meanwhile, the eyes encounter compression everywhere. Often repurposed from schools or offices, jails reflect an architecturally crushing fullness of makeshift adaptations: plywood and cardboard wedged between bunks, forming fragile sleeping tiers, clotheslines hang from bars, shelves jam the walls, and belongings fill every gap. Yet amid this press for survival, murals, religious icons, family photos, and slogans accent the spaces, asserting dignity, resistance, and ownership within confinement.

Frustration with elite impunity

Antojado acknowledges that, within public discourse, harsh jail conditions are perceived to be a legitimate part of the Philippine penal system. However, public reactions to high-profile detentions—such as calls that former Senator Bong Revilla should receive “no special treatment”—reflect frustration with elite impunity and unequal justice, not just a desire for suffering. Antojado shows that calls for harshness usually stem from resentment and distrust in institutions, rather than a true belief in degrading punishment.

“The insistence that he should ‘feel it’ functions as a moral argument about anti-impunity and equality before the law, not simply as retributive sentiment,” he said. 

Rather than moralizing or relativizing harm, the research anchors its ethics in Philippine constitutional commitments against cruel, degrading, or inhuman punishment, alongside international standards. The central question is not who deserves to suffer, but on the effects of overcrowding and sensory deprivation on people and justice. 

Addressing the full spectrum of harm

Recognizing this dynamic, Antojado calls for sensorially attuned penal reform to acknowledge the full spectrum of carceral harm. He asks what forms of justice genuinely reduce harm, uphold equality, and address the structural roots of crime.

“By foregrounding smell, heat, sound, touch, and the micropolitics of space, this work offers an evidentiary bridge between rights-based obligations and daily experience. It invites policymakers, practitioners, and the public to attend to the sensory infrastructures of confinement where human flourishing is either quietly sustained or steadily eroded, and to craft reforms that answer to those embodied realities now,” he adds.

Dwayne Antojado published “Embodied Overcrowding and Sensory Tensions: A Carceral Autoethnography of Philippine Jails” in International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice in December 2025. 

SOURCE: https://archium.ateneo.edu/asog-pubs/318/ 

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Converge Earns Prestigious MEF 3.0 Certification, Reinforcing Commitment to Global Standards and Innovation

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Manila, Philippines - February 12, 2025 – Converge ICT Solutions Inc. (Converge), a leader in fiber optic technology, today announced it has earned the prestigious MEF 3.0 certification—a remarkable leap forward for connectivity and digital excellence in the Philippines. This milestone underscores Converge's unwavering dedication to meeting the industry's highest global standards for performance, assurance, and agility.

The MEF 3.0 certification stands as a globally recognized mark of excellence in network services, validating that Converge’s Carrier Ethernet solutions meet the most stringent benchmarks for quality, interoperability, and security. This achievement not only cements Converge status as a world-class provider prepared to address the dynamic challenges of today’s digital economy, but also marks Converge entry into the newly evolved Mplify Alliance. This evolution, accelerating the AI-powered digital economy with standardized and trusted automated services, enables Converge to become part of a global federation of automated networks—unlocking new opportunities and demonstrating commitment to innovation on a global scale.

"Securing the MEF 3.0 Certification is a game-changer that underscores our strict adherence to international standards," said Paulo Martin Santos, Converge Chief Technology Officer. "By aligning with the world's highest benchmarks for performance and agility, we are providing our clients with a third-party seal of approval on the quality of our network. This validation gives Filipino businesses the confidence to compete on the international stage with faster, more agile, and more secure connections."

This definitive achievement signals that Converge has moved beyond being a local player to becoming a world-class technology powerhouse. As the company transitions into a full-scale techco, its infrastructure is being optimized to exceed the rigorous demands of the global digital economy. This evolution proves that the Philippines is no longer just catching up—it is setting the pace for world-class connectivity.

For enterprise and wholesale clients, this framework ensures seamless connection with international carriers and guaranteed performance backed by strict reliability standards. The infrastructure is purpose-built to support next-generation connectivity solutions allowing Filipino enterprises to adopt secure remote work setups and high-capacity data transfers with absolute confidence.

While this foundational certification is now secured, the company is nearing the completion of several other variant certifications. This ongoing roadmap ensures that every layer of the network operates at peak global efficiency, reinforcing the status of Converge as a world-class technology provider dedicated to powering the Philippines' digital future.