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title: "Watch WebRTC Live #50: WebRTC Trends for 2021 with Tsahi Levent-Levi – WebRTC.ventures"
description: For our 50th episode of WebRTC Live, Arin Sime's guest was WebRTC thought leader, Tsahi Levent-Levi to discuss trends in WebRTC development in 2021. Topics included WebRTC 1.0, AV1, project maturity, scaling, testing, privacy, background replacement. remote work and social interactivity, end-to-end encryption, and much more. Watch it here!
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# [Watch WebRTC Live #50: WebRTC Trends for 2021 with Tsahi Levent-Levi – WebRTC.ventures](https://blog.webrtc.ventures/2021/02/webrtclive-2021-webrtc-trends)

 Written by [Jen Oppenheimer](https://blog.webrtc.ventures/author/jen-oppenheimer) | Feb 2, 2021 5:00:00 AM

On January 27, 2021, [WebRTC.ventures](https://webrtc.ventures/) produced our 50th episode of [WebRTC Live](https://webrtc.ventures/webrtc-live/). Arin’s guest was Tsahi Levent-Levi to discuss what’s next in WebRTC development in 2021. Tsahi is a leading authority in our community, keeping us up to speed on the world of communications, WebRTC, and CPaaS. He blogs at [bloggeek.me](http://4f6be0ea.hatchbuckmail.net/link.php?DynEngagement=true&H=ltqmAiFyUus3V9RIZo7G2GvP5ZEKnzR2GJf36yV3Tq%2B5ZYNMcQ8Q2FfgxSx%2BaC%2BVU2UHOKJiV3htgKb8KCSz5aHo%2BCgsYTPWdeweCyt2SZSMInI1gh%2Br%2BYCHL6232VFY&G=0&R=https%3A%2F%2FQQEFGEZTEMQ.hatchbuck.com%2FTrackLinkClick%3FID2%3D69OFqgsftET49O9B7NGJ4rPf1sP4krFyuLXDOKcAx_wD2qZq1nADyPgGSeb8bIPa0&I=20210120192952.000000058c98%40mail6-61-ussnn1&X=MHwxMDUyMzMwOjE2MjI1OTgwNDA7MXwxMDUyMzMxOjEzOTM0NTM5ODs%3D&V=3&S=-orRcweZCj0jjAvZuSrjPPxpc7SVV1v1B3hA4LZIjD4).

Both of the presenters have blogged about this topic. You can read those posts [here](https://webrtc.ventures/2020/12/2021-webrtc-development-trends/) and [here](https://bloggeek.me/webrtc-trends-2021/).

The topic was timely as just the day prior, The Internet Engineering Task Force and The World Wide Web Consortium announced that Web Real-Time Communications (WebRTC) is [now an official standard](https://www.ietf.org/blog/webrtc-milestone/). This was, of course, the first topic of discussion.

Other topics included:

- The availability of AV1 in Chrome Canary
- The movement in WebRTC application projects from demos and start-ups to production-ready applications
- The shift from getting it flashy (augmented reality, etc.) to getting it right (making sure the application actually works!)
- A change in the necessary scale for WebRTC applications — more speakers, more viewers
- Remote work and remote social interactions as the new norm
- A greater need for privacy in terms of background noise and location (background replacement)
- End-to-end encryption
- Testing

*Join us for WebRTC Live Episode 51 on Wednesday, February 17  
**NV – The Next Version of the WebRTC standard, with Bernard Aboba**.  
[Register](https://www.bigmarker.com/webrtcventures/NV-The-Next-Version-of-the-WebRTC-standard).*

### [Watch Episode #50!](https://youtu.be/kZhY_OIpvdc)

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