We built this for the person holding the tablet

Webcasting arrived in local government as a video problem with a video budget. Cameras, operators, contracts. Plenty of councils looked at the numbers and quietly decided transparency could wait.

We took the other route: get the meeting online at a price a parish council can approve, make the archive genuinely usable, and keep the operating burden close to zero. Councils that started with audio now stream video through the same system when it suits them.

Everything is designed around a simple test — could the clerk run it, on their own, on a busy night, without a rehearsal?

The archive is where most of the listening happens. Of the 2,063 recordings people listened to in 2025, only 509 were published that year — around three quarters of all listening was to meetings that had already taken place, some of them years earlier. A webcast is not an event that finishes when the meeting does.

And the audience is real. On the busiest day the service has had, 2,597 people listened to their council. On an average day in 2025, 196 did — every day of the year.