Poll / Q&A Widget

What is it?

Polls and Q&A widgets are structured interaction tools layered on the live stream:

• Poll: the host poses a question with options; viewers vote; results display live on screen.
• Q&A widget: viewers submit questions into a managed queue (often with upvoting) instead of shouting into a fast-moving chat.

Where chat is a crowd talking, polls and Q&A are the crowd deciding and queuing.

Practical example

Mid-show, a host launches a poll: "What should next week's episode cover? A) Pricing B) Marketing C) Hiring." A bar chart appears on stream and fills in real time as hundreds vote — the audience literally watches itself decide, and B wins. Later, the Q&A widget collects 40 submitted questions; viewers upvote, and the host answers the top five — no good question lost in chat scroll, no awkward "any questions...?" silence.

Key things to know (non-technical)

• Polls create a shared live moment — watching results move is content in itself, and it only works live.
• Q&A queues fix chat's core flaw for question formats: speed and chaos bury the best contributions; upvoting surfaces them democratically.
• Both produce data the creator keeps: poll results are instant audience research.
• Results displayed on-stream (not just in a side panel) is what makes these broadcast features rather than chat features.

In Tupic Live

Built-in polls and a Q&A queue — launched in one tap, rendered as branded on-screen graphics, votes flowing in from all simulcast platforms — give Tupic Live shows the interactive formats (voting shows, AMAs, audience-driven episodes) that flat chat alone can't support.