WebRTC Weekly Issue #627

Feb 25, 2026

Here is the latest on WebRTC from your friends at webrtcweekly.com.

Scaling Whatnot: Behind the Largest Live Shopping Stream in US History (Whatnot Engineering)
MrBeast does WebRTC via Whatnot and Agora’s infrastructure.

Qencode Joins Alliance for Open Media to help Drive Open Video Innovation (Press release)
The Alliance for Open Media is growing and shifting focus towards its AV2 work.

webrtc-internals on steroids (sponsored)
10x your troubleshooting and debugging with our powerful WebRTC statistics viewer.

583K+ WebRTC broadcasting (Gustavo Garcia)
Gustavo explains the optimizations needed in WebRTC infrastructure for what Whatnot+Agora did for MrBeast.

Exploring MatrixRTC: Real time communication in rooms (Element)
Element sharing their view of how video calls look like on Matrix platforms.

Capturing the Screen With System Sounds on Chrome on macOS (Pipe)
Current state of audio capturing in screen sharing on a Mac.

Lokal Scales Chat, Video, & Audio—Reaching 100M Downloads (Stream)
A case study about Lokal’s use of Stream’s platform.

New Video API 2.33: Client Observability and Platform Updates (Vonage Developer)
Focus is on quality measurements and preferences on the client SDKs.

That’s all for this week. See you next week!