Meta rolls out a suite of new features and discovery tools for Facebook Live creators

Meta (formerly Facebook) today is introducing a number of Facebook Live updates that will allow creators to engage with fans during their live broadcasts, including new features like Polls, support for four-person co-broadcasting via the “Live With” feature, new commenting features, a new post format, support for adding links to broadcasts and “Live in Stories,” which allows creators to share their livestreams directly to Facebook Stories to improve their chances of discovery.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday teased these new additions and others still to come by posting to Facebook that more creator updates would be coming later in the week, after the launch of the online Stars website announced Tuesday. The new online store routes around the app stores’ commissions as it’s web-only, and is currently passing the savings on to fans by offering more Stars (the virtual items used to tip creators) for the same amount of money as you’d pay inside the Facebook mobile app.