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 screen grabs prior to the event at 7:50 EST and at the the peak of the event at 9:10 EST. We were able to deduct that YouTube Live peaked at approximately 700,000 concurrent viewers.
This is an outstanding result for YouTube’s first live streaming event, and a clear confirmation of the potential of live streaming for YouTube and the internet as a whole.
This is great news for Mogulus and the entire live streaming community.
The evidence :
Live Streams on Akamai at 7:50 EST (before the event)
Live streams on Akamai at 9:10 EST (peak of the event)
Full screenshots :
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Television Spy
November 24th, 2008 5:49 amInteresting analysis, I’m curious as to the bandwidth used – surely would have exceeded 1TB, also not mentioned is the amount of data flowing through youtubes servers during the actual event. The amount of data being used to show chat messages must have been tremendous, every second there were at least 200 messages being posted. You can imagine how taxing that would be on both their database and servers. I’m roughly guessing 200 based on experimentation – it could well be more then that but generally I found it to be averaged -based on tracking comments across page change.
Interesting stuff, really. Apparently a press release on Newswire from Google states that they weren’t too happy with the turnout for viewership and plan to promote any future live events even moreso then this event. That means they’re looking for something a little more global and lot more highly trafficked. They already beat out Live Earth, but that was done large in part with Microsoft’s co-operation.
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