Ngewe Live -

The rapid expansion of live‑streaming platforms over the past decade has reshaped how audiences consume, produce, and monetize audiovisual content. Ngewe Live—launched in early 2024 as a niche, community‑driven live‑streaming service—has quickly become a focal point for scholars interested in platform governance, participatory culture, and transnational digital economies. This paper provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary analysis of Ngewe Live’s technological architecture, governance model, content ecosystems, and socio‑economic impacts. Drawing on a mixed‑methods approach that combines platform data scraping, user ethnography, and policy analysis, the study situates Ngewe Live within broader trends of platform diversification, algorithmic moderation, and creator‑centric monetization. Findings reveal that Ngewe Live’s hybrid “open‑core” architecture fosters higher creator autonomy while simultaneously reproducing power asymmetries through its tiered revenue‑share system. The paper concludes with recommendations for regulators, platform designers, and creators seeking more equitable live‑streaming environments.

| Layer | Technology | Key Feature | |-------|------------|-------------| | Edge Delivery | Cloudflare Workers + custom UDP‑based transport | Sub‑200 ms end‑to‑end latency for <10 Mbps connections. | | Streaming Core | Open‑source NgeweRTMP (fork of Nginx‑RTMP) | Enables low‑cost self‑hosting for verified creators. | | Data Layer | PostgreSQL + ClickHouse for analytics | Real‑time dashboards for creators. | | AI Moderation | Hybrid model: BERT‑based profanity filter + community‑voted “trust scores.” | Moderation decisions can be appealed to a human “Council.” | ngewe live

The open‑core model allows creators to run a lightweight local server that pushes streams directly to the CDN, reducing reliance on centralized ingestion points and lowering operational costs. The rapid expansion of live‑streaming platforms over the

| Source | Method | Timeframe | Volume | |--------|--------|-----------|--------| | Platform API | Automated scraping of public stream metadata (title, view count, duration) | Jan–Oct 2025 | 2.3 M streams | | User Surveys | Structured questionnaire (N = 2,148) on creator earnings, moderation satisfaction | Apr–Sep 2025 | 1,912 completed | | In‑Depth Interviews | Semi‑structured interviews with 28 creators (diverse genres) | May–Oct 2025 | 28 transcripts | | Policy Documents | Content‑moderation guidelines, terms of service | All versions (2024‑2025) | 12 documents | | Layer | Technology | Key Feature |

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