Tomorrow, YouTube will be showcasing its first live stream as it broadcasts its YouTube Live celebration, which will bring together a host of celebrities, musicians, and notable YouTubers for a massive event in San Francisco. The show will be streamed on YouTube beginning at 5 PM PST, and will include performances from Katy Perry, will.i.am, Joe Satriani, Tay Zonday (the Chocolate Rain guy), and a number of other musicians. I’m personally looking forward to a special appearance from the Mythbusters team.
YouTube hasn’t yet made any announcements regarding a livestreaming service for regular users (which would pit it directly against services like Ustream) but it won’t be surprising if we hear from them tomorrow about the company’s upcoming plans. We first heard about possible streaming functionality back in January, and later confirmed that it would be coming some time this year.
YouTube’s Chris Di Cesare says that the event may be the first of a series of annual live-streamed get-togethers celebrating the year in viral videos. We’ll have another post tomorrow with some of the highlights.
Update: There have also been rumors that the event will actually be powered by Ustream or another third party.
youtube doesnt need live stream i cant looked @ more folks committing suicide a la justintv
Why not dude? They are having a party and letting who can’t come watch. hehe
Finally! I guest never to late?!
haha good thought buddy
i think the same.
Would love live streaming on you tube for the regular folks! Hope they announce something!
I don’t think they are gonna do that, because people will start using youtube like its a webcam.
dude, three words “youtube: broadcast yourself”
I wonder what this means for competitors like justin.tv, ustream, etc. I bet they are seriously worried. Whatever happens I’m sure it will be total google domination
It is just ease of use right? In general if you are into the online video, you have a youtube channel. If you could stream live why bother using justin.tv. That said YouTubes direct to webcam record leaves much to be desired. Often the audio does not match the movements of the mouth as well as some other sites.
I really wish these companies would offer an option to increase bandwidth for say a $10 a month fee. I never understood why companies don’t at least offer an option for users where they can pay to show videos in high def. Does it hurt to offer the option?
If anyone has tickets to this. I’m trying to get in. There’s plenty on Craigslist but they’re selling out fast.
adam@dailytechtalk.com
http://twitter.com/adamjackson
I live nearby.
They are just doing a live event and not launching a live service.
NO WAY they will launch a live service after the JTV disaster.
Ustream is powering the Youtube Live
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wow..youtube for live streaming?..i think i need to speed up my internet connection…
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If anybody cares, I geo-tagged my way home from work tonight. Having a couple beers(1.75) at work then driving shortly after and snapping pics and uploading them to Picasa in dense and threatening traffic takes mad skillz.
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Enjoy because I’m not trying that again. The first pic up near west LA was from this morning when I still had energy!!!
I am f’ing beat now. Thank god I get to move to snazzy upscale apt in Culver City next week.
BTW, I’d drive up to San Fran tomorrow, but I don’t see an eventbrite link for Tickets ???
The PHut pics are from last weekend, ignore those. BTW, don’t they have a live version of this with event brite tix ???
Purely online events are for backwood folks and shutins, no?
A little late to the live streaming game wouldn’t you say?
The one weekend I have free and can drive up to San Fran they go and have a purely virtual event. Almost like a purely virtual function in an abstract class.
AFA your comment, it’s Google so it doesn’t matter if they’re late. They win no matter what. You should pay attention more. They’re f’ing Google. Just like Microsoft was f’ing Microsoft back in 1995.
Android is like Windows 95. They brake for no one like Spaceballs. Youtube live, even with this late launch has more clought in it’s little pinky then all of Arrington’s investment dollars in Seesmic and then some.
All of these services that did live FMS streaming’s best option was a sell out to a cell phone provider or Google and both are now null because of the economy. By doing this Google is saying that there was no strong upstart to purchase and value add to it’s properties. That it was cheaper and better to do it themselves.
nuff said
Could be a good direction.
it should be mate as I am planning to cancel my limo hire trip for this.
The streaming will be coming before the holidays… All of the kids on vacation will have a whole lot of nothing to do at home and this is the perfect timing. Within 30 days or less, it will be rolled out. Watch
Mike
http://www.wannadevelop.com/
This is great. Looking forward to it.
They are not going to announce free live streaming. Even if they announce live streaming it will be a paid service
My brother and I created a website (www.lyvegyde.com) that gathers links to interesting, free, live online events (such as concerts, speeches, sporting events, etc…). I am really excited about YouTube Live! and I hope that they will have more high quality live events in the future. There is just something about being able to watch an event live that is a lot of fun.
I have a theroy that it’s either Digitaria or Amazon WS that will be hosting the live stream but I only base this on a lose hunch.
The thing is that Amazon WS is hosting the swf of the teaser you find on the youtube live page. And on the other hand Digitaria seem to be hosting the iframe to that swf.
I only found this out because I use the firefox addon script blocker that needs to to grant permission for each script hosted by each site and these websites caught my eye.
Anyway, just a hunch
Hmmm no one made any referrence to the O’Reilly outburst. LOL.
Google is not that convinced of YouTubes business case. They killed the user generated live streaming project long time ago. “First make some money, then we’ll invest extra” is what Google execs said.
You know, YouTubes business today is filling up Google infrastructure and emptying Google pockets. YouTube is very popular but they don’t make money and they will not. YouTube is Googles most expensive hobby.
This live event generated a few PetaByte traffic. Powered by Akamai. Not any of the other ones. Which is not a cheap thing to do. So this live event burned even more money.
YouTube will not offer live streaming. YouTube is not for pro’s. YouTube is cool for consumers. At least as long as Google keeps paying the rent.
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