Comments on: Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers

By: With, Not Without U2, YouTube Saw 10 Million Streams Sunday Night

With, Not Without U2, YouTube Saw 10 Million Streams Sunday Night — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:53:24 +0000

[...] Google, were the ones actually handling the streaming capabilities. They’re the group that also handled it for YouTube Live, this past summer. That event saw some 700,000 concurrent views during its peak, [...]

By: U2 Live (LA) | vj.tv

U2 Live (LA) | vj.tv — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:16:47 +0000

[...] def (internet) video and commercial free. 700,000 concurrent streams. This was clearly a not-to-miss [...]

By: Livestreaming: Die Tücken der Skalierbarkeit

Livestreaming: Die Tücken der Skalierbarkeit — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:16:38 +0000

[...] Dimensionen überhaupt noch arbeitsfähig zu sein. So war Akamai vor kurzem mit dem Senden eines YouTube Live-Events noch erfolgreich (etwa 700.000 simultane [...]

By: YouTube Live and Virgin America Wifi launch | Pop17

YouTube Live and Virgin America Wifi launch | Pop17 — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:58:24 +0000

[...] Previously on Pop17, I talked about lifecasting and interviewed Steve Chen about YouTube’s plan to integrate live video on their site. Silicon Alley Insider said that it wouldn’t happen this year, however, it did with YouTube Live. As you can imagine, that was expensive to serve. (See more details at TechCrunch). [...]

By: YouTube Live & The Potential of Live Streaming Online Video - Part 1 | Raging Analytics

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:43:05 +0000

[...] watch according to stats from Akamai. See TechCrunch’s post about Akamai’s usage stats here. The event featured a blend of real Hollywood celebrities like Katy Perry and Will.i.am and [...]

By: YouTube’s Live Event As Overhyped As The Company | domain names |

YouTube’s Live Event As Overhyped As The Company | domain names | — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:52:56 +0000

[...] did not stream the event themselves and used a CDN. Who did they think was going to do this? Even TechCrunch says, “We’d heard rumors that Google had partnered with one of the big three live streaming [...]

By: lodgegoat

lodgegoat — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 22:48:34 +0000

So with AKAM stock at 12 and change, looks like Google can just buy them and Youtube can go live 24/7.

By: Jim Kott

Jim Kott — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:19:49 +0000

Michael,
Your comment that “P2P software can handle [live broadcasts] effectively and far cheaper…” is both accurate and timely. Abacast’s Peer-Assisted Live delivery is doing exactly these types of live broadcasts today at scale and enabling higher bit rates for consumers and with a higher QoS than utilizing unicast delivery exclusively. We recently did a live broadcast of the Beijing Olympics for SBS (http://www.abac...9032008_sbs.php) using our peer-assisted technology licensed by FutureStream Networks. We served higher bit rate content than the YouTube broadcast (1.5Mbps), with very high audience satisfaction and resulting in significant server infrastructure savings and over 13Gbps of bandwidth savings.

While both unicast delivery and peer-to-peer have advantages, their sum is greater than their individual value, something Abacast has come to realize as the company has evolved.

-Jim Kott
Abacast, Inc.

By: Laurence

Laurence — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:50:12 +0000

It’s unlikely that they’d get $.10/GB — that’s really low. It would probably be closer to $.20 or $.25.

Live streaming costs are typically higher than straight CDN costs.

By: dmitri

dmitri — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:16:23 +0000

if youtube offers a live service, would this mean death to the other live services?

By: CG

CG — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:05:48 +0000

Why would it be a bad thing for GOOG to use AKAM services for something like this? Seems like a great example of buying instead of building. Reward companies who have the sense to work like this.

(Although it would have been cooler if they could deliver a ‘live experience’ via progressive download… wouldn’t ADOBE love to see that happen?)

By: CG

CG — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:03:09 +0000

exactly! Thanks for pasting this in here.

By: YouTube’s Live Event As Overhyped As The Company

YouTube’s Live Event As Overhyped As The Company — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:18:42 +0000

By: YouTube’s Live Event As Overhyped As The Company

YouTube’s Live Event As Overhyped As The Company — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:18:41 +0000

By: Diarionascosto.it V.2.0 - Il sito più famoso di video streaming ora trasmette anche live

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:27:20 +0000

[...] una serie di eventi importanti che coinvolge grossi nomi della musica. Intanto, secondo i calcoli, Techcrunch ha stimato che circa 700.000 persone abbiano assistito allo show di questa notte. Nonostante [...]

By: Was YouTube Live a Success? That Depends. « NewTeeVee

Was YouTube Live a Success? That Depends. « NewTeeVee — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:00:04 +0000

[...] 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 $100,000 isn’t much, [...]

By: WowzaAlex

WowzaAlex — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:58:48 +0000

Wowza is a lot cheaper than Adobe FMS and charges a simple per-server fee. The comment “And [Flash streaming is] 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.” is only correct as it applies to CDNs using FMS. Adobe’s “Flash tax” is either passed on to customers or the CDN takes a margin hit. Wowza server licensing doesn’t tax Flash services with per-GB fees.

By: links for 2008-11-24 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog

links for 2008-11-24 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:02:01 +0000

[...] Google Relies On Akamai To Stream YouTube Live; 700,000 Concurrent Viewers 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 (correction: one person associated with Justin.tv emails to say they’ve hit “well over 400,000″), so tonight’s concert would have been an experiment in scalability for them. (tags: youtube cdn streaming) [...]

By: YouTube Live and Virgin America Brings Wifi To Planes | Refuge Design

YouTube Live and Virgin America Brings Wifi To Planes | Refuge Design — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:50:42 +0000

[...] live on a website, with little to no glitches. Some have said Youtube partnered with Akamai (TechCrunch as a similar report) to help carry the heavy [...]

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Between the Lines mobile edition — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:47:07 +0000

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By: 70万人观看首次 YouTube Live 直播 | 1986 To Present

70万人观看首次 YouTube Live 直播 | 1986 To Present — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:54:10 +0000

[...] 的 Michael Arrington 写道:“尽管 Google 有着自己非常强大的内容传递网络(CDN Content Delivery [...]

By: 700 mila per Youtube video - Vittorio Pasteris

700 mila per Youtube video - Vittorio Pasteris — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:14:55 +0000

[...] TechCrunch We’d heard rumors that Google had partnered with one of the big three live streaming services – [...]

By: Joyce DeWitt

Joyce DeWitt — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 08:23:24 +0000

His sentence should have read:

“You wouldn’t need all this fancy CDN infrastructure, if P2P were well I suited to delivering data in order, which it of course isn’t.

But in web 3.0, browsers will be servers too: when three people visit a site, their machines will start serving the data to each other! This will make the companies profitable enough to revive the VC industry. It a great idea for the community-of-three to serve other people’s data, especially when it’s low enough value that they can’t afford to do it themselves.

For example, if three people got together, we could serve all the Seesmic 3.0 data directly from our touch screen TechTablets. The Three’s Company Cluster is what I want, now. “

By: 看视频，用插件还是客户端？用P2P还是CDN？ | Hans Virus

看视频，用插件还是客户端？用P2P还是CDN？ | Hans Virus — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:30:43 +0000

[...] 都说P2P节省成本，适合网络直播，YouTube Live直播频道前两天推出了，却采用了昂贵的CDN技术，Why? [...]

By: Yasser

Yasser — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:41:07 +0000

The technology was on point but i felt the show itself was sketchy, parse and downright “NOT” entertaining. Youtube needs to step its game up!

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