Britain's Got Talent · Royal Variety · 2020
Virtual Audience
A live-show audience tool viewed by millions. Nuxt + Express + Mongo, with Redis and Socket.io powering realtime triggers. The UK go-to virtual-audience platform for major broadcast.
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About this project
The brief, the build, and the result.
Virtual Audience is the UK go-to live-show audience tool, viewed by millions. Built for the biggest broadcast moments — Britain's Got Talent, Royal Variety, Lenovo activations — it pairs a polished participant experience with a realtime production suite running on Nuxt, Express, Mongo, Redis, and Socket.io.
- 01Realtime audience reactions via Socket.io
- 02Redis-backed session state across thousands of concurrents
- 03WebRTC + RTMP for broadcast-grade quality
- 04Load-balanced infrastructure ready for live spikes