5 posts and columns on YouTube Live

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YouTube Opens Streaming Floodgates

in News on April 8, 2011 at 10:20 am PT

YouTube’s move into live streaming took a big step forward today with the initial rollout of YouTube Live, which will integrate the tools for producing and discovering live feeds into the site’s core system for the first time. Google’s video site is also opening its streaming platform to approved YouTube partners and hopes thousands of them will climb aboard. The amount of live programming now warrants its own viewing guide page.

UTube: 10 Million Streams for Bono and Co.’s Live Show

in Media on October 29, 2009 at 4:22 am PT

What happens when one of the biggest bands in the world Webcasts a live concert on the world’s biggest video site? You get a lot of video streams. Close to 10 million, says YouTube, adding that Sunday’s live Webcast of U2′s Rose Bowl concert was the single largest event it has streamed so far.
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Video Scenes From YouTube Live: Obama Girl, Chad Hurley and Free Hugs

in News on November 24, 2008 at 12:01 am PT

Here’s a video I did while attending YouTube Live on Saturday–well, live–at the Herbst Pavilion at the Fort Mason Center, right on the San Francisco Bay. The last time I had attended a big tech industry event here, it was the launch of Windows 97 from Microsoft–which was quite a different scene than this entertaining but freaky show, in which online celebrities jumped a little shakily into the analog word.

YouTube’s Big Live Debut: Pretty Small

in Media on November 23, 2008 at 8:30 am PT

Did you watch YouTube Live last night? Odds are you didn’t. The video site’s first attempt at a live-streamed event drew a peak audience of 700,000 people. That’s a lot for a Web event. But if it was a TV show, it would have been canceled.

Obama Girl, Fred, the Movie Reenactment Guy and Other Online Phenoms at YouTube Live

in News on November 21, 2008 at 1:40 am PT

This weekend, YouTube is going analog, showing off a bunch of the freaky people who have become online phenoms, at YouTube Live, its “first ever official live community celebration.” Taking place in San Francisco on Saturday, BoomTown and thousands more are going. And, frankly, I am not sure I want to meet some of these folks, including the truly warped Fred Figglehorn (the No. 1 most subscribed channel in YouTube history), Obama Girl and Brandon Hardesty, the guy who does movie reenactments. Will I be shooting online video? Oh, yes, my fellow freaks.