Business opportunity
Instagram Live Selling / YouTube Live Shopping / Meesho Live
From our industries research
Official source ↗Chinese livestream commerce (Taobao Live, Douyin Live) is adapted in India as short interactive live sessions on Instagram Live and YouTube Live, plus Meesho's own in-app 'Live Shop' feature where sellers/influencers demo products in real time. Meta removed native Instagram Live Shopping in-stream checkout in March 2023, so the dominant Indian mechanic is 'comment-to-DM': a viewer comments a keyword during the live and receives a product/payment link via automated DM, after which payment is usually completed via UPI or a WhatsApp-shared link. YouTube separately runs a Shopping affiliate program live in India letting creators tag products (from partners such as Flipkart, Myntra, Nykaa) during Shorts/videos/livestreams.
What you should know
- Best suited to
- Fashion/apparel and handicraft resellers and regional-language content creators/influencers already comfortable on camera, who want to convert an existing or growing social following into real-time sales without a studio setup.
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