Your social engagement doesn’t scale
You’ve done it – your live event is going off without a hitch. The virtual concert is booming, your gaming stream is gaining subs left and right, your audience is cheering for the latest sports broadcast.
It’s good – maybe too good. Traffic spikes 10x and suddenly your infrastructure’s hitting concurrency limits. Messages lag, users drop during the moment that matters, and you know your team is about to spend the next week firefighting instead of shipping features.
Stop worrying about the next audience spike – build your next generation live experience with PubNub.
Pain Point Agitation
Well, you may have realized “keeping pace” isn’t enough. Today’s digital shopping landscape demands that you build faster, adapt smarter, and explore what’s next. All before your competitors do.
For instance, can your systems instantly respond when carts are abandoned across multiple channels? Or do your teams have real-time insight into inventory? And are you ready to embrace emerging trends like live shopping and on-demand buying experiences?
With the right foundation, you don’t just keep up. Oh no, you lead the way.
Feature Benefits
Real‑Time Messaging
Connect people, agents, and devices the moment they act.
Benefit
Keep momentum—no queues, no rewrites.
Real‑Time Messaging
Connect people, agents, and devices the moment they act.
Benefit
Keep momentum—no queues, no rewrites.
Real‑Time Messaging
Connect people, agents, and devices the moment they act.
Benefit
Keep momentum—no queues, no rewrites.
BENEFITS
Boosting live engagement in real time
Maximize audience experience at scale
Foster next-generation live events that scale to any number of concurrent users, traffic spikes, or message volume without hard limits. Battle-tested to 25.5 million concurrent connections and 3+ trillion messages per month.
Benefit
Your next major event won’t break you. Broadcast to 100K or 10M concurrent community members without worrying that that record-breaking speedrun
Capture moments that matter with ultra-low latency
Your audience doesn’t want spoilers. They want the stadium to come to life in their home, celebrating moments when they happen, not minutes after. With sub-100 ms global delivery and a 99.99% SLA, lag gets left behind.
Benefit
Fans don't miss the moments that matter, and communities are crafted in real time. Engineering can venture out, building new worlds and features, while resting easy that PubNub’s infrastructure will hold.
Safety and compliance: Trust that’s built in
Security isn’t just a feature to us. It’s the first stop on the journey for our customers – the one that fuels the rest of the road ahead. That’s why we ensure enterprise-grade security and compliance isn’t just a feature, it’s baked into everything we do. Experience SOC 2 Type II certification, GDPR compliance, HIPAA-grade security, FedRAMP authorization, granular access control, encryption, audit logging, and more.
Benefit
Your data and your customers are in good hands. Focus on your roadmaps, developer bandwidth, time to production without worrying about whether sensitive data is at risk.
Live insights and lifelike interactions
Process data when it happens and build interactivity that makes online feel like their lifeline.
Built-in moment-to-moment user analytics and edge computing allows you to deploy offers, polls, betting windows, and more at peak times to create lasting, real life-like experiences that drive revenue and engagement.
Benefit
Sacrifice no latency while still delivering real-time experiences that feel like the real thing.
Get insights in seconds instead of days, monetize and maximize audience experiences at that magic moment.
“When broadcasting live events, there has to be minimum latency. This is why we chose PubNub because they are leading in this area.”
Aron Shmuely
Director, Professional Services & Cloud at DAZN
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CASE STUDY
How we've fueled live events like yours
Build social interaction platforms that scale whether you're hosting a world cup or a virtual concert.
PubNub |  Ably | Why this matters | |
| PubNub vs Ably | |||
| Platform performance | |||
Global Latency An uptime guarantee offers peace of mind for you and confidence in the service we provide. | PUBNUB <100ms global For all customers | COMPETITOR NoLorem ipsum | |
Latency Lower latency provides a true real-time experience for users, which is crucial for increased engagement and adoption. | PUBNUB WAN < 30 ms50% of PubNub’s messages have below 20ms delivery speed. Our intranet latency is below 1ms, while our WAN latency is sub 30ms. | COMPETITOR Not Listed | |
| Scalability | |||
Uptime Guarantee An uptime guarantee offers peace of mind for you and confidence in the service we provide. | PUBNUB 99.999%For all customers | COMPETITOR 99.95% | |
Latency Lower latency provides a true real-time experience for users, which is crucial for increased engagement and adoption. | PUBNUB WAN < 30 ms50% of PubNub’s messages have below 20ms delivery speed. Our intranet latency is below 1ms, while our WAN latency is sub 30ms. | COMPETITOR Not Listed | |
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Launch your first live feature in minutes
Ship your first feature for free
No server maintenance or scaling guesswork; enterprise‑grade security and compliance
Frequently Asked Questions
What kind of live events do you support?
Pretty much whatever you want. Push boundaries with us and forge live events that work for you and your audience. Our customers stream video game sessions, live concerts, sporting events, live shopping extravaganzas, bidding bonanzas, and more.
How hard is it to integrate PubNub for live audience engagement?
Very easy. 70+ SDKs mean copy-paste-level integrations for your stack. Basic chat integrations can be done in minutes to hours. Full feature suite (polling, reactions, presence) can take as little as 1-2 weeks.
What's the latency like for live events?
We boast a sub-100ms global average. Our network is optimized for bi-directional communication, not just content delivery. That matters for real interactivity for millions.
How does pricing work?
As you grow, your costs scale with Monthly Active Users (MAU) not exponentially with infrastructure. Pay for unique users, not countries, hidden bandwidth charges, or per-concurrency fees.
Navigate to our pricing page or speak with a member of our team to forage for more details.
What happens when we scale up to large volumes (i.e into the millions)?
Nothing too scary. We scale with your audience. No hard limits. No performance degradation.
Proven at up to 25.5M concurrent connections. Avoid outages and experience massive live events for millions of devices, no problem.
How do you free up dev time and drive developer velocity?
Simple: we do the hard stuff for you. We share infrastructure and the tools you need to build live interactivity so your teams can focus on the features that form connections.
What frameworks and platforms does PubNub support?
React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Next.js, Node.js, Python, Java, Kotlin, Swift, C#, Unity, Unreal, and 60+ more.
Our API-agnostic design means you're not locked into our SDK, but our SDKs can save you weeks of work.
What live analytics does PubNub provide?
Real-time dashboards showing engagement metrics, user activity, channel performance. Built-in A/B testing, real-time decisioning, and campaign management via PubNub Illuminate.
See what's happening when the moment matters, not what happened yesterday. Tailor your event engagement to your audience moment by moment with us.
Can I test or try PubNub for free?
Yes! Our free tier includes:
- Up to 1M transactions or 200 MAUs monthly
- Data retention for up to 7 days and 1GB
- Access to our broad community support
Build, test, and launch your first live feature on us. Start building today.
