Client: Center for Global Development · International development policy think tank.
SicilyCast produces CGD’s live podcast-style virtual event series — senior policymakers, government officials, and international speakers connecting from their own offices, streamed to YouTube Live as a polished TV-style broadcast.
Senior speakers joining from their own offices across time zones; no appetite for installing webinar software minutes before going live; a single unstable speaker connection risked taking the whole broadcast off air.
A browser-only speaker experience — no install, no plug-in, no account. A private backstage for tech checks, a vMix-composited broadcast with picture-in-picture, lower thirds and graphics, streamed to YouTube Live with full encoder redundancy and preloaded fallback content.
On one live episode a non-technical speaker’s laptop dropped offline mid-interview; they reconnected from their phone in seconds using the same browser link, with no visible gap to the audience. CGD’s talks now consistently look and sound like television.
vMix · NDI · Custom browser contribution · YouTube Live · Isolated track recording.