TechCrunch recently featured Livestream’s Co-Founder & CEO Max Haot in Chris Dixon’s Founder Stories. In a 6 part video series, Max discusses everything from the founding of Livestream to the recent release of the New Livestream. Watch all below:

Watch Live Coverage of the CMA Awards Red Carpet today (Wed Nov 9) at 5 PM ET on the New Livestream. In addition to the live video, there will also be real-time photos of the stars as they walk the red carpet accompanied by text updates from the AP Live editorial team.

CMA Award presenters expected on the red carpet include Oscar-winning actress and Nashville native Reese Witherspoon, Reba McEntire, Lauren Alaina, Dierks Bently, Billy Currington, Jake Owen, Kellie Pickler and LeAnn Rimes!

Follow the AP Live CMA Awards channel to be alerted when the action starts!

WOW CMJ was out of control this year. We had the pleasure of streaming 50+ bands that were part of the NYC festival, providing you with the most extensive live coverage anywhere around. But wait there’s more! This week is another show stopper with 20+ more bands streaming right to your computer, we’ve got our highlights below but as always keep an eye on our concerts page for more updates as they come in.

Tonight we’ve got Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy playing live from the Viper Room in LA. His Solo album Soul Punk just came out last week and we’re so excited to hear these new songs live. Make sure you RSVP for the show so you don’t miss it live.

Next we have another great show this time it’s singer songwriter Andrew Belle playing from his hometown of Nashville TN. We can’t wait to for a chance to see how his home crowd welcomes him back from a long US tour. RSVP here

Finally we have MC Lars live from The Knitting Factory Brooklyn. He calls himself the originator of “post-punk laptop rap”, and has pretty unbelievable list of acts he’s supported on tour including Nas, Lupe Fiasco, T-Pain and so many more. We’re not really sure what to expect but that makes us all the more excited to check it out! RSVP Now
Check back in Monday for next weeks show!

We are so happy to announce that one of our Livestream produced shows will air on network television this weekend! The OWN network will air Sheryl Sandberg’s interview of Oprah Winfrey on Sunday, October 2nd at 9pm ET/6pm PT. Tune in and watch Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg talk to Oprah from the Facebook live studios about her new life after the 25 year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show, her latest “favorite things,” and her new show, Oprah’s Lifeclass.

This was such a great interview. If you missed the livestream and can’t catch it on the OWN network you can watch it on the Facebook live channel: Oprah on Facebook Live

Internet Week New York, the week-long festival of events celebrating New York’s thriving internet industry, is already underway and Livestream has a special announcement.

On June 10, Livestream invites all interested users to Walkabout NYC. Walkabout NYC is a city-wide open house event for technology startups. Anyone can attend and check out the spaces to see how their favorite tech companies work. They also have the opportunity to meet the people behind the innovative companies of New York City. To learn more about Walkabout NYC, visit their site.

Stop by any participating company during their designated hours for a behind-the-scenes look at their space. Livestream will be open from 12:00pm to 6:00pm. Please join us for guided tours and refreshments.

Can’t make it to Walkabout NYC? Experience the daily operations at Livestream by watching our office live at http://livestream.com/office. Don’t forget to check-in to the Facebook chat to chat with some of the Livestream staff.

Happy Internet Week!

[From the original on Mashable by Adam Ostrow]

The Royal Wedding has already taken over trending topics across the web, and we can now report that it has broken at least one record: concurrent viewers on Livestream.

The company says that its livestream of William and Kate’s wedding topped 300,000 concurrent viewers at 6 a.m. ET on Friday morning. CEO Max Haot tells us that he expects “at least 2 million” unique viewers by the time the broadcast is done. Livestream partnered with the Associated Press, UK Press Association, CBS and Entertainment Tonight for its coverage.

Akamai reports that the event broke broader live streaming records as well. A representative for the company — whose network hosts some of the web’s largest news sites — reports that “concurrent live streams of Royal Wedding on Akamai surpassed the 1.6M peak set by World Cup in June of 2010.”

However, the event does not appear to be the biggest news event in web history. While the 4.6 million page views per minute reported on the news sites Akamai delivers content for this morning surpass the total for Barack Obama’s presidential election victory, they fall well short of the 10.3 million page views per minute record set last June when a World Cup qualifying match and the longest Wimbledon match in history took place simultaneously.

[From the original on Perez Hilton]

Sheen’s Korner has got NOTHING on the royal wedding!

Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding livestream broke a record with “300,000 concurrent viewers at 6 a.m. ET on Friday morning.” Wowsa!

Livestream’s CEO Max Haot says he’s expecting “at least 2 million” viewers tuning in by the time the broadcast is complete.

Not only has the royal wedding broke records for the company live stream, but it’s broken Internet live streaming records in general, and according to reports, its “concurrent live streams of Royal Wedding on Akamai surpassed the 1.6M peak set by World Cup in June of 2010.”

Impressive! Then again, this doesn’t surprise us!

Who WOULDN’T want to tune in for such an exciting, momentous occasion???

Did U watch a live stream of the royal wedding on the Internet?

P.S. Be sure to watch Perez as he hosts “Will + Kate Forever,” the only royal wedding special worth seeing, airing tonight, April 29th at 7pm/6c on Wedding Central and also at 9pm/8c on WE tv.

BOSTON, March 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ – Berkleemusic, the online continuing education division of Boston’s renowned Berklee College of Music, and Grammy®-award winning guitar virtuoso Steve Vai, have set the Guinness® World Record for the world’s largest online guitar lesson. Held at leading streaming media platform Livestream Studios in New York City on March 3rd, Vai brought together nearly 7,000 members of the international guitar community in a celebration of online music education.  Guinness certified the record based on Berklee having recruited 4,455 students over the first 15 minutes to the lesson. Berkleemusic also announced a donation of $7,000—one dollar for each student certified as taking part in the lesson—to the Steve Vai Online Scholarship Fund at Berkleemusic, which rewards and assists outstanding students.

“I’m very happy and proud to announce that Berklee College of Music was officially awarded the Guinness World Record for the world’s largest online guitar lesson,” said Berkleemusic Chief Marketing Officer Stefanie Henning.  ”This was an amazing collaboration of all the teams here at Berkleemusic with tremendous support from Berklee College of Music President Roger Brown, the College faculty and students, and the day’s guest of honor, Steve Vai.”

Berkleemusic and Steve Vai have also co-authored a new twelve-week online course: Steve Vai Guitar Techniques. The course helps students gain a deep understanding of Vai’s playing styles, repertoire, techniques, and musical concepts from anywhere in the world, and to incorporate their learnings into their own playing. The next course begins on April 4th, 2011. For more information regarding enrollment information, and sample instructions, visit Berkleemusic.com.

Vai, a Berklee alumnus and passionate advocate for music education and exploration, is finishing a new solo album and preparing for a world tour to coincide with its fall release.

“I hope this record encourages players to continue to cultivate their own unique style and spirit on the guitar,” Vai says. “I think this record really showcases the interest that exists in guitar education worldwide. It was a true pleasure working with an institution like Berkleemusic, who shares my interest in helping to bring more skilled musicians into the world.”

Watch the Steve Vai guitar lesson below:

For event owners looking to create a maximum production value broadcast, check this out the video below. Livestream produced and distributed a seven-camera HD show for Paramount Pictures’ purple carpet premiere event for the movie “Justin Bieber: Never Say Never.”  The team from Livestream handled every element of the production including the creative rundown for the show, the casting, the equipment, the camera work, the direction, the graphics, and the encoding. The stream was watched by millions of fans online on Livestream.com, watched on Justin’s Facebook page, streamed live from an embedded feed on Twitter and on Paramount’s official movie sites worldwide. On-site production took place in the Livestream truck which includes both a production control room and client lounge.

Have you got an event you need produced? Send your inquiry to services@livestream.com now.  Production packages can be custom built depending on the level of complexity and the available budget.  Prices range from $5K-$200K.

Many thanks go to Paramount Pictures for partnering with us on this event. Livestream is looking forward to producing many more full-production live shows in the future.

[from the original by Andy Plesser at Beet.TV on March 10]

For broadcasters seeking to provide a high quality live stream, untethered to an Internet connection and a PC, Livestream has just introduced a device from Teradek called the Cube.

Yesterday we visited CEO Max Haot for an explanation of the new device which works with the Verizon 4G LTE nextwork and gets uploads at better than 8 mbps where the network is available.

The Cube, which attached to top of the camera, is an Internet device which is programmed to stream directly to a user’s Livestream channel. There is no need for a PC. Very cool.

The device costs from $1600 to $2000 depending on options. It works with WiFi. It only works on the Verizon 4G network, but will expand to other service providers in the U.S. and abroad, Haot says.