mogulus.com - 11/23/2008
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Over the last few days, there has been a lot of speculation in the industry about who will power tonight’s YouTube Live event– whether YouTube will announce their own live service, acquire a live streaming platform, or simply stream the event live using a CDN.
Any move by ...
m.youtube.com - 11/18/2008
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m.youtube.com —
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intensive application. We highly recommend that you upgrade to
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YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
mogulus.com - 11/23/2008
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mogulus.com —
As a follow-up to our previous post Who
Powered YouTube Live?, we are glad to publish the
unofficial peak concurrent viewers for the event. Akamai publishes concurrent live stream metrics for their full network on this page; we monitored it and took ...
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YouTube Live: Unofficial numbers a clear testimony to ...
mediamemo.allthingsd.com - 11/24/2008
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mediamemo.allthingsd.com —
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.
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YouTube’s Big Live Debut: Pretty Small
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Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers
TechCrunch —
... But instead of working with them, or building their own streaming media CDN, they chose to work with Akamai. Google won’t confirm this, but it’s fairly trivial to detect (see screen shot below). Why did they go with Akamai instead of partnering? One key factor may be that Mogulus, Ustream and Justin.tv haven’t streamed live events with much more than 100,000 simultaneous viewers, so tonight’s concert would have been an experiment in scalability for them. ...
Google Reportedly Relied on Akamai For YouTube Live Event
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... , which featured people like Will.I.Am and Katy Perry (the San Francisco-based event featured music performances, comedy, and memes and popular people of YouTube). These stats aren’t precise, but based on public Akamai before/ after numbers during the time. Mogulus also reports that Google partnered with content delivery network Akamai to support all the users. (Note Mogulus is a competitor in the space of content delivery/ streaming help.) ...
Google partnered with Akamai for YouTube Live Event
D' Technology Weblog —
... , which featured people like Will.I.Am and Katy Perry. These stats aren’t precise, but based on public Akamai before/ after numbers during the time. Mogulus reports that Google partnered with content delivery network Akamai to support all the users. (Note Mogulus is a competitor in the space of content delivery/ streaming help.) ...
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