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Google Reportedly Relied on Akamai For YouTube Live Event
Google Blogoscoped —
... Michael Arrington at TechCrunch writes, “Despite the fact that Google has it’s own quite impressive CDN [content delivery network], streaming live video (as opposed to progressive downloads, which YouTube has historically relied on) is hard stuff. And expensive – you have to license Adobe’s Flash Media Server, or a competitor like Wowza, and pay at least a couple of cents per gigabyte transferred on top of normal costs.” ...
YouTube Live from San Francisco, but not from Tokyo
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... According to TechCrunch, YouTube did 700,000 streams via Akamai, which could have cost about $25,000, according to a comment from Charbax: not that much for a bunch of multibillionaires with private jets. But there's nothing new about it, and it's very small beer compared with, for example, MSN streaming the Live Earth concert, which reached more than 10 million users. ...
Was YouTube Live a Success? That Depends.
NewTeeVee —
... to pull a couple of million viewers just to break even. And specials like award shows are even worse — they can cost as much as $30 million for a show like the Oscars (although they bring in a lot of ad revenue as well). From that point of view, YouTube Live looks like a relative bargain. It’s not clear how much YouTube paid stars like Perry and Soulja Boy to appear, but the bandwidth costs for streaming through Akamai likely weren’t that exorbitant, if estimates like this are in the ballpark (and we understand that they are). Less than ...
Was YouTube Live a Success? That Depends. [NewTeeVee]
GigaOM Network —
... viewers just to break even. And specials like award shows are even worse — they can cost as much as $30 million for a show like the Oscars (although they bring in a lot of ad revenue as well). From that point of view, YouTube Live looks like a relative bargain. It’s not clear how much YouTube paid stars like Perry and Soulja Boy to appear, but the bandwidth costs for streaming through Akamai likely weren’t that exorbitant, if estimates like this are in the ballpark (and we understand that they are). Less than ...
Was YouTube Live a Success? That Depends
NewTeeVee —
... to pull a couple of million viewers just to break even. And specials like award shows are even worse — they can cost as much as $30 million for a show like the Oscars (although they bring in a lot of ad revenue as well). From that point of view, YouTube Live looks like a relative bargain. It’s not clear how much YouTube paid stars like Perry and Soulja Boy to appear, but the bandwidth costs for streaming through Akamai likely weren’t that exorbitant, if estimates like this are in the ballpark (and we understand that they are). Less than ...
