We’re at the YouTube Live event in San Francisco, which is bringing together a number of celebrities, YouTube favorites, and musicians to celebrate the past year in viral videos. The show is being held in front of a live audience of 3000 people, with millions of people tuning in worldwide to watch the first live-streamed event in YouTube’s history. You can watch the event above.
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Ooookay so who’s powering it?
uhm… Google?
The picture quality is clear especially at High resolution. There are three camera angles available (main stage, back stage and off stage). The events in the show are pretty unusual, such as cups rearranging, magic show with laser lights, music beats with choreographed on treadmills, etc. They have lots of people/group lineup for a long show. Looks interesting.
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From an adult perspective, it was horrible. It was geared towards kids/children - anyone under 20 basically. It felt too much like a really shoddly thrown together attempt to clone the MTV Awards.
It felt dumbed down, and consisted of celebrities like LisaNova, who is basically a ‘celebrity’ - if you can call it that, for the no other reason but for the fact that now and then she flashes a shot of her cleavage.
The only thing worth watching in the sea of nonsense they broadcasted was the breakdance troupe towards the end. There was an attempt by MythBusters to make an appearance, but it was rather bad and long. They had this machine, shameless promotion for NVidia, where they spray the machine at one ofthe guys - but the leadup to it was too long and the result was pretty unsatisfying.
Akon made an apperance, and it was supposd to be the highlight since that was the only real celebrity they could get. It wasn’t very good - I give a B+ for trying, but an F for content - considering the amount of real talent they have, they could have promoted some of the amazing stuff on YouTube - like musicians, performers and stuff. So many people would have done their stuff for free - but instead they chose to take only the most popular youtubers - and that resulted in some pretty boring routines.
Live? How come when it lags for a few secs, it continues from the point where it lagged? Shouldn’t it skip that part?
Great nonetheless!
Looks like the site is loading content from live.youtube.digitaria.com. Digitaria looks like a consulting company so I wonder if they built he streaming technology or they got one of the providers out there to do that.
I tuned in. I don’t like it.
Hi all - from this URL http://live.youtube.digitaria.com/site/streams.xml (edgefcs.net is akamai’s domain) you can see that the streams are powered by AKAMAI - a traditional content delivery network (CDN)
As CEO of Mogulus (www.mogulus.com) - I will post some reaction on http://www.mogulus.com/blog later tonight with some industry insight.
Max, are you saying that Akamai has built technology to stream live video?
As far as I know CDNs mainly serve pre-created content, but my experience with CDNs are many years old.
1 LA is quite enough, no need to turn SF into LA part deux.
Why cannot I stream from my iphone?
This is almost as slick as a high school talent show.
As for the coordination and event logistics, I would’ve thought YouTube would have brought in some pros.
You would have to question - if youtube integrates LIVE VIDEO in all of its glory and considering it would be powered by Google and its huge distribution channels
whether “other” startups in this arena are really going to survive ?
Maybe in “niche” categories they may - but as a “mainstream” product - I’m not sure there is a “real” possibility they will ?
i.e. its the “why use another product when Youtube supports this and has the greatest distribution channel?”
Perhaps if these businesses target directly “business or corporate” end of live video (aka brightcove) but otherwise ?
“You” “really like” “quotes” “.”
am i the only one here that can’t watch this thing ? it started ok but around 5:20 PST the video started freezing. its simply not watchable in any quality right now. this is embarrassing.
“Why cannot I stream from my iphone?”
More importantly why can’t you do this from Android?
I have Google’s OWN PHONE and I can’t do this?
iPhone is 3rd party. I have first party dammit.
It paused every 10 seconds or so…I gave up after a minute.
it didn’t work that bad for me
Alright. This is the most ridicolous and senseless thing i’ve ever seen.
+1
for a sec I thought “wow this is really cool and useless”
U-G-L-Y you dont have no alibi
- It’s ugly
- Its ugly!
Youtube + Google is going to take over…! Once everything becomes a video online, Google will own!
No more email, Video Email/messages baby!
Watching from Europe. It didn’t work for me the first few times, but now it is working and I’m really impressed. I think this is beyond awesome and this is a huge step towards breaking down the walls of old media. I love that streaming live, taking photos and video is *encouraged*. As a fan, this allows me to connect on a deeper level with an artist. Hats off to YouTube!
I am so excited that everyone with some talent has a chance of being a star, even if on a micro level. I know that some of these YouTube sensations were created my marketing teams, but some of them are self-made and got there through the democratization of content and appealing to a large audience through the creation of their art.
I say hell yes! Complaining about the production quality of this event seems silly to me and entirely misses the point.
Right on Cyan, it definitely misses the point. You know how it is, some people DO, others choose to sit back and complain and make excuses. To each his own.
Have an awesome day!
Dan
Yup, the whole point was to showcase non-professional talent, which is what makes youtube such an awesome thing.
Time to end the Read-Only culture and bring in the Read-Write culture. Larry Lessig will be a happy man, if he’s watched this:)
Does anyone think this can be succesfull????
hminaya
facebook junkie
nice show for its debut. 3 stage choice was nice. no problems with streaming. cool content. the bar has been set.
LiveLocator.com - on air
I found out I have to pay for cable at my new apt in Culver City
I think I’m going to totally switch over to Hulu, Google Video and Youtube
http://www.themediamall.com/playon
Apparently you buy a $30 license for playon and you can hook up your PS3 to your computer and stream.
I’m not paying Time Warner no $40 a month, oh hell no. $29.95 roadrunner is bad enough.
youtube.com/results?search_query=playon+MediaMall
I’m drinking the koolaid, especially since the TimeWarner coolaid is so expensive. My PS3 will be my new cable box. I already have Netflix watch it now.
$40 a month for TW cable is f’ing $500 a year plus tax.
Not paying. I only noticed this tonight when I had to sign up for LAWPD and SoCal gas online. Then I went to Roadrunner and TimeWarner tried to suck $40+ for sh1tty cable out of me.
So this is goodbye TiVo. Alas, goodbye. The live stuff on Youtube will only make it better although I didn’t like this showcase thing. That kind of sucked.
There it is.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_s3Vw5Kkj.....crewed.jpg
I got the $50 a month Time Warner 7x high speed for $29 a month through a bridgevine offer, which I found with Google adsense results.
I’m going totally sans cable and using playon with my PS3.
Now all my utilities will be on. Wish me luck. TW wanted well over $100 a month when I went to their site and tried to sign up.
$30 a month for standard high speed Road runner, then I am going to use playon for all my TV stuff with Hulu and Youtube and my PS3 as the player.
So 30x 6 months, then $46 for the other 6 months. I use my G1 as my phone and that’s $25 for the data plan and $29 + 5 for international calling @ $0.09 a minute for the TMobile G1 phone so my total yearly TV/Phone/Internet w/3G will be
30*6 = 180 // 6 month RR offer
46*6 = 276 // other 6 months of Road runner 7x high speed
59*12 = 708 // T-Mobile Google HTC G1 Phone w/$25 unlimited data plan + $29 400 SMS + phone plan +$5 reduced international rates
So $1164 per year
If I had the TW 3 in 1 HD package @ 125 a month plus the AT&T iphone pacakge it would be $1500 a year for TW 3in1 + the base iPhone package @ $80 a month * 12 = 960
So it would be $2460 a year if I was somebody like Scoble or something.
So by using YouTube/Hulu/Netflix watch online ect.. I save roughly $1300 a year plus taxes and applicable fees. AT&T and TW fees are not insignificant.
I think this is going to be the way of the future. People are sick of monopolies. I’m not supporting Time Warner.
Plus gas here in SoCal is under $2.00 a gallon on my street corner.
I hope everything becomes free soon and we continue to have low taxes. This is so much better than Canada and Europe it’s not even funny. Heating costs are next to nothing when it’s 80 degrees year around.
There it is.
http://lh5.ggpht.com/_s3Vw5Kkj.....crewed.jpg
I got the $50 a month Time Warner 7x high speed for $29 a month through a bridgevine offer, which I found with Google adsense results.
I’m going totally sans cable and using playon with my PS3.
Now all my utilities will be on. Wish me luck. TW wanted well over $100 a month when I went to their site and tried to sign up.
$30 a month for standard high speed Road runner, then I am going to use playon for all my TV stuff with Hulu and Youtube and my PS3 as the player.
sorry, ignore this, I hit the post comment button twice and refreshed.
I’m running OS X and It works perfectly, I honestly don’t see what the fuss is about…
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I’m a huge fan of live videos and I hope that YouTube has more events like this in the future. Some of the acts were very silly, but some of the people (especially some of the dancers) really had a lot of talent.
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@Mogulus CEO- You sound kinda pathetic in my opinion.
It was a nice way to start the Sunday morning from India watching it without much of latency issues ! (thanks to Akamai?!)
http://www.globalvideoworks.com
this is exactly why EU funded Tribler
https://www.Tribler.org
they have “funding for the next four years to deliver a number of enhancements to Tribler, covering live P2P streaming, an improved user interface, inbuilt friend/taste recommendations and much more.”
they aim to build Mac, Windows and GNU/Linux clients, as well as a dedicated hardware Set Top Box client, to allow them to deliver the core technical goals: an open standards-based “next-generation” internet television distribution system, using P2P and social interaction.
CDN is not a great thing for the internet a P2P system actually is
(but a CDN is something that you need right now)
regards
John Jones
http://www.johnjones.me.uk
I was at the event. A couple Three observations: first, thanks to all the performers. Ok so her we go…1) nice try, sort of suprised that it took the tube so long to throw a party for the masses that made them who they are; 2) yes I attended for free, but in the Pavillion, the whole front half of the space was reserved seating and EVERYONE else, the masses, had to watch the monitors. So the whole thing felt like we were just bodies to fill the space so that the wide shots would look good. That plus the heavy movie sponsorships made the thing more like the big three arriving in private jets instead of something that could have/should have been wonderful; and 3) the masses seemed flat, likely because they also sensed the us vs. them vibe and oh yeah, that school teacher serving beer was hot!
I hate this shit
I guess that this shit hates you more than you hate it.
I watched from Asia. Technology was great but the show wasn’t on point!
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Seems to me 700K is far short of the reported “millions” that tuned in.
I have to admit - the quality of youtube is getting better every day!
Live? More like delayed