There was a time when going live meant satellites, trucks, and a van full of gear. You needed an engineer, a technician, and a stack of equipment just to get a signal back to base. That era isn’t completely gone, but for forward thinking newsrooms and broadcasters, it’s fast being replaced by something far more agile, scalable, and elegant. The GlobalM MOJO app is a tool that puts the power of a fully orchestrated broadcast network into the hands (and pockets) of any journalist, anywhere in the world at any time.
This isn’t another gimmicky mobile streaming app. It’s a fully integrated app for the GlobalM software-defined video network, built from the ground up with journalists and broadcasters in mind. From breaking news to press briefings and elections, the GlobalM app enables professional grade contribution from the field with no configuration required, just launch the app and go live.
Zero Configuration. Maximum Control.
What makes the GlobalM app so compelling isn’t just the picture quality (though it supports up to 12 Mbps H.264 hardware encoded streams at full resolution). It’s the fact that there’s no need to enter stream keys, IP addresses, ports, or SRT passphrases. Nothing.
The moment a user launches the app, the GlobalM Network Orchestrator steps in. It automatically provisions the stream, assigns it to the right receiver pod based on the cell phones location, and configures both the transmission and the return feed, all in the background. There’s no need to be a technician. The process is so smooth that even non-technical users can begin contributing live video to a major news network in a matter of seconds. The app is fully orchestrated, just like the rest of the GlobalM platform, which means every connection, stream, and endpoint is dynamically managed by the cloud.
This level of simplicity is hard to overstate. In a crisis, during fast-breaking news, or in high-pressure moments, even the best-trained journalists don’t want to be wrestling with settings. They want to focus on the story. GlobalM has made that possible without sacrificing a shred of professional rigour.
Built for a Scalable, Distributed Future
Behind the scenes, every stream from the GlobalM MOJO app enters our private IP backbone, routed through our patented SDVN infrastructure. That stream isn’t just delivered directly to one destination; it enters a fully orchestrated mesh of receiver and sender pods that can remux, transcode, or convert it to any format needed, SRT or RIST for modern workflows, or RTMP for other platforms.
But here’s the real differentiator, the network scales with the story. As soon as a piece of content begins to attract attention, whether it’s going viral in a news agency situation or it’s being picked up by multiple affiliates or members, the GlobalM network responds automatically. More resources are provisioned in real-time, more endpoints are activated, and the stream is replicated as needed without any intervention from the user.
That makes it ideal not just for single camera journalists, but also for multi-location, multi-source live coverage where stories evolve and expand minute by minute. GlobalM’s orchestration means you don’t need to stop and reconfigure mid-stream. The network expands invisibly, doing what needs to be done, so you can stay focused on content.
The licencing for the GlobalM app is as elastic as the technology. The MOJO app is licence free for as many mobile handsets that are needed. A news organisation can have all their journalists, freelancers and social influencers connected with the MOJO app, and they only pay for it when it is in use. This makes costs predictable, even if we cant predict always where news is coming from.
Low Power. Low Latency. High Quality.
Unlike software encoding tools that hammer the phone’s CPU and drain the battery, the GlobalM app is built around hardware-accelerated encoding. This ensures minimal power consumption, better thermal control, and longer sustained streaming sessions. It means your camera operator isn’t desperately looking for a charger halfway through a press conference.
Latency is another area where the app excels. With SRT as the core transmission protocol, end-to-end latency is typically very low, even over public 4G and 5G networks. This means contributors can be interviewed live on air, interact with the control room, and receive live return video and audio, all in real time.
The return feed itself comes via an SRT return link, which the app displays as picture-in-picture, along with live audio monitoring. This is essential for two-way reporting, coordination during live events, and for ensuring contributors know exactly what’s going to air with their return feed. It is also possible to provide a simple IFB channel in the cases where this is preferred.
Security, Compliance and Total Visibility
The GlobalM app is not just a tool for going live. It’s part of a broadcast-grade security and compliance ecosystem. The app can only be used with the cell phones location service enabled so news rooms can see where any journalist really is located on a map within the GlobalM dashboard.
Every MOJO stream is recorded for compliance. Real-time monitoring allows broadcasters to view transmission health, performance metrics, jitter, latency, and bitrate. Alerts can be pushed into third-party monitoring systems, and session logs are stored for audit trails and playback.
In short, this is a contribution workflow that ticks all the boxes: speed, scale, security, verification and standards.
The New Standard for Field Contribution
The GlobalM app doesn’t pretend to replace ENG crews or OB vans. But it does bring those same standards of performance and reliability to the moments where speed, flexibility, and mobility are paramount.
It’s the tool that allows a reporter to deliver a breaking story at a moments notice. It’s the way a network can go live from a protest before the camera crews arrive. It’s how remote interviews can happen with full confidence, and how stringers in distant locations can become active contributors to a live rundown at the tap of a screen.
This mobile phone is now a 4K HDR camera with built in high speed connectivity. It has all the power to deliver a high quality news event, either planned or unplanned. And when paired with a network designed to take advantage of these features, its just as simple as opening the app, start the stream and being live in the news room in seconds. Watch the video below to see how simple and fast this really is.
