Testing, testing...YouTube begins trial of new live streaming platform
From U2 to the Indian Premier League to the White House to E3, we've worked closely with our partners to give you a front row seat to a wide array of live events. Today and tomorrow, tune in as we open a new chapter of YouTube live streaming. Starting at 8:00 a.m. PT, we will begin a limited trial of a new live streaming platform in conjunction with four of our partners: Howcast, Next New Networks, Rocketboom and Young Hollywood.
This new platform integrates live streaming directly into YouTube channels; all broadcasters need is a webcam or external USB/FireWire camera. Included in the test is a “Live Comments” module which lets you engage with the broadcaster and the broader YouTube community. For the purpose of the trial, this offering will only be available today and tomorrow. Based on the results of this initial test, we’ll evaluate rolling out the platform more broadly to our partners worldwide.
Check out all the live broadcasts via the interactive schedule below, and feel free to share this schedule across the web via the embed functionality. Bear with us as we test this new platform as there may be some bumps along the way. Please share your feedback in the comments section below (though note that the section is moderated due to spam). Thanks!
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This is slowly starting to make sense, uploads/downloads and Live can live together nicely. I like the direction this is going.
Let users do this theirselves on their own channels.
Then they won't have to move away and go onto silly websites like Stickam :)
Really surprised YouTube have not started doing this sooner. I hope I will be able to use this once it goes live or will it be for Partners only?
Finaly, I have been waiting for this forever!
So does this mean it will sorta be kinda like livestream or ustream?
What about LIVE search?
Well, this is a great opportunity for those of us who want to see something but can't travel across the country to see it. Thanks a lot! You're making the world smaller day by day! :)
Wow, right when you though YouTube couldnt get no better.
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Partners only?
do people still watch that content?
Like to see an "app for that" for my Droid Incredile please...
It would be great if you could develop live statistics from polls or user feedback to be inserted in the live stream. This would allow a new level of interactivity between the viewers and the host.
Pretty neat, hope this comes to the rest of us soon.
Google is taking over the world a step at a time. This is the step they are taking to make YouTube the only channel you will need on your TeeVee. Just tune into YouTube-2015 (or sooner) and watch anything you want. Advertising revenue will flow to Google and life will be good - for Google.
Of course those pesky contracts that have to be signed with the real TeeVee players will slow down the process a bit. This is the battleground with iTunes and Netflix and all the others who want to be your main channel.
This is GREAT! I can't wait to use this instead of the other live streaming services. I imagine that Google will make this as streamlined and hassle-free as all their other services.
I hope it work will ..
I want to see all kind of TV's ch. on YouTube
it will be nice .. I hope the service work in KSA
This is pretty amazing. I would love to know how I can participate as a broadcaster. Our current setup is to use QuickTime Broadcaster to a server farm in FL, which then distributes the live QT video.
are you going to make it for eveyone and i can be a tester if you want youtube contact me via my channle at rickyis911 or email me on my google email as you have it i can test it for you and i beta tested on blogtv/stickam/livevideo so i know what to look for if there is bugs and all that stuff
cool, Imagine watching live streaming on youtube enabled televisions.
Wow
It could be great for me to Broadcast live with Youtube !!! ... I did some podcast here in my blog, but this could be something really nice :D !!!
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So, is there any hope of this eventually releasing to users? Or is this going to continue to be a Partners-only tool, like a certain playlist organization feature which makes episodic content work better.
Please, please, please move forward with this! I would love to be able to stream my own live events on my channel. HUGE!
Would you people please use UTC we don't all live in the US.
Subtracting 8 from anything wears me out 2 is easy.
I thought the whole point of You Tube, Netflix and others was so we could watch programming at a time that was convenient to us, the viewer. Live is OK for "Breaking News". Historical news and events need to be on the viewer's schedule. Distributing viewing times helps minimize the load on the internet circuits. With lots of people watching at once, without an improved internet network in America regular daily internet traffic is going to get bogged down.
Caught end of Tony Hawk stream...... looked fine. No lag problems.
You use the 12 hour clock notation for time. Unfortunately we use the 24 hour clock notation here and I have no idea when 12:30 PM is on the day. Also it's presented in PST which is 7 hrs ahead of Europe adding more confusion to European viewers.
when will the real youtube users, not the corporation get to use that?
That's awesome I can't wait!
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finally you make a good feature... and it's only available for two days. smart thinking youtube. /sarcasim
you really should make this a permanent feature. you can put ustream out of business.
verry nice live streaming;) but i want to become a partner and i want do do a lot of live streaming about The art of displacement (parkour&freerunninf) tutorials about tricks ;)
There seems to be a bad lip sync issue.
How I'd love to see a live stream of a U2 concert!
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so, is this more about turning youtube in a second TV-set, or running along the "broadcast yourself" motto?
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Yeahhhh
So will live be for everyone or only partners?
This is interesting. But why just Partners when rolling it out, I know it would be convienient but it's a tad unfair giving it to them all the time, considering the rest of us have less a fan base.
Also would live shows automatically be saved after broadcast? and ofcourse will up to 1080p be introduced when you guys make it more stable?
start/stop/start/stop? wft...
impossible to view.. useless
why can ustream and stickam
make streaming work and google can not?
no one is broadcasting... fun stuff
So? What good is a feature for the millions of non-partners who can't use it?!
and it friggin sucks balls- videos i select wont even friggin play. its crap.
I wish testing did not have to bork the entire website, so that I am unable to watch anything, leave comments, or check my inbox. Also, why does YouTube always pick corporate sellouts to stream live? Just my opinion, but why not pick YouTube oddities and ask if they wouldn't like to have front-row status for a day? We watch YouTube to avoid Hollywood. Just a thought.
Can we download live streaming video?
Yup, sounds very nice but it obviously doesn't work on safari and firefox. not cool! thanks for working on that and making youtube available again! ;)
Yup, sounds very nice but it obviously doesn't work on safari and firefox...not cool! thanks for working on that and making youtube available again! ;)
Broke the rest of the page.
Great. will look forward to this success of Google.
Congratulations on your trial of live streaming online.
You have done a wonderful job supporting captions for prerecorded media with CaptionTube and your speech-to-text feature. We hope that your trail is successful and we would be very encouraged to see support for live captioning as part of your live streaming platform.
There are very few live captioning platforms that provide native support for live captioning. YouTube could lead the way and encourage more people to consider live captioning to increase access for all.
Sarah Pulis
Media Access Australia
(Media Access Australia is an independent not-for-profit media access organisation)
Shouldn't it be PDT?
"Note that PDT is a daylight saving time/summer time zone. It is generally only used during the summer in the places listed below, during the winter PST is used instead"
http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/na/pdt.html
How do we become a partner in this live streaming?
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Wait.... so does this mean normal people won't be able to use it?
"we’ll evaluate rolling out the platform more broadly to our partners worldwide"
Can you comment on the latency/bandwidth uploaded of each broadcast? Everyone in live streaming claims that "live" is around 5 seconds or more. While that is great for recreational streaming, people who broadcast real-time applications get left in the dust when they can't afford broadcast industry hardware.
All that is needed now is the resurgence of the M-bone, then I can throw the cable bill out the window.
Pretty much all YouTube pages look ugly and disorganized in the Firefox browser. Can you please fix this issue?
Thats awesome... love youtube!
Thats awesome... love youtube!
Please have an API and allow live wmv stream too. Allow broadcasters to enter their live stream from thier own server so others can watch. That way they don't need to run the live broadcast from their main home computer 24/7. Once they enter the live stream (i.e. mms://westerns.tubtub.com/ ) Thanks!
ok, so if i understand correctly, only "youtube partner" will be allowed to broadcast in the future?
It looks pretty nice, but I wonder why it is not available to my country?
You Should make this live thing avalible for everone. Not everyone is a partner!
FIRST! :D
Will this be available in Canada ?
I do a weekly show currently on ustream and then upload the video to youtube. Would love to cut out the middle man and try out the new live streaming as a broadcaster. Looks very promising :)
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Love it!
My channel is devoted to astronomy and science, and one use I would love to use streaming to:
* have a telescope trained on the sun so people could see a current image of solar activity throughout solar minimum.
* live stream certain astronomical events, like meteor showers, comet approaches, eclipses, occultations and a variety of other events.
I think students and teachers could get a lot out of something like that. Looking forward to the release of this! For reference, my channel is DeepAstronomy
YouTube partners should not be the only live broadcasters. It takes a different skill set to succeed live. Please give others a chance to broadcast live too.
Many popular radio shows did not have the same success on live TV in the 50s. Many silent film stars failed to succeed in sound motion pictures.
Many YouTube stars have not done so well on television or live performances. They may not have the stage presence or quick wit needed for live broadcasting.
YouTube is all about going from zero to hero. Please let the non-partners at least have a chance.
Thanks.
Too Bad I can't even view videos. It takes an hour to load a 5 minute video.
cool, Imagine watching live streaming on youtube enabled televisions.
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any ideas as who to get in touch with for a live streaming on Youtube from Mumbai, India
DAMMIT, WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME SOMETHING LIKE THIS HAPPENED A MONTH OR SO AGO? I'VE BEEN EAGERLY WATING PAITENTLY FOR A LIVE-STREAMING TEST OF SOME SORT AND THIS IS HOW YOU TREAT ME? GODDAMIT!
I believe this is a great news for many people who wait for Youtube to launch its live streaming platform. Just one thought, if you want to broadcast with high quality and monetize your videos or live contents, Youtube probably will not be the site your are looking for. I heard about a live streaming server called DaCast(www.dacast.com). The company just launched its integrated platform allows user streaming good quality videos and making money by choosing the pre-setup monetization models in the system. They are offering a free trial now, you can sign up a new account and get 10GB for free.
Congrats Youtube bringing the streaming platform, I have already watch some live events on youtube, Hats off!!
As a YouTube partner, I have to say, I'm hoping that YouTube will only offer this service to partners and NOT to everyone. Otherwise, you will have a glut of sub-par live feeds clogging up the site and eating up bandwidth. Who needs 567 channels of people filming their pets 24-7?
youtubeshould extend it to accounts that have over 50,000 views, that way its content that is going to get viewed and not what the comment above states... removes sad ppl fliming crap
(i myself have 39,000 views so it will make people work harder to get this feature)
I hope this get's extended to all users, I want to be able to host a live show on YouTube, instead of having to go somewhere else, and then upload it to YouTube.
I believe that as a youtube partner I should have access to this feature but only youtube partners.
I'm watching a live Youtube broadcast right now and loving it :)
The audio quality is good, but the video itself is a bit gnarly :X
'sides that - can't wait till this is rolled out to everyone :)
integrate it into the user channels, that would be the end of the competition. We all have to go to other competitors sites to do this currently. Keeping people inside the youtube network should be your top priority. A twitter module and a dailybooth module would pretty much seal the deal on most ALL other platforms. Heck, why not make a multi platform application so people don't even have to go to the web site? Then you could get the app on boxee and other appliances. You guys have too much potential to stay within the community to be selling out to folks like veevo and such.
It has givin me the option to livestream but i cant seem to get it to work correctly. Hopefully tutorials start coming out :D
How do I live broadcast? I'm not a partner.
I'm a youtube partner and can't find how to do this on my channel.
This sounds it is going to be fun : )
way to go YouTube : )
I would like to be a YouTube-Partner. ;D
Wow, thats just totally nice... I would love to get this option for my little channel, too :-)
I love live streaming. I can watch any NFL or English Premiere League game via live streaming sites. If youtube thought they had a piracy problem. Waite until they go live.
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It is still possible to participate in this program? and I am partner and would like to participate
Not that this is a shoutout but we have been a partner for a while, we have been able to transform our community and bring people together. From city information to local sports including political issues. You-Tube's acquisition's and steadfastness has let it's self to here. We are all connected, Let's Start Changing the World for Good.
EVERYONE ITS ONLY FOR PARTNER FOR THE piracy ISSUSE. Partner have to work hard and sign something saying they wont pirate anything.
A good effort by Youtube we are also doing broadcast on our website www.vihaldham.org with ustream but this service(Youtube-Live) is like a very good than ustram.tv we also like to join and create a live broadcasting channel on youtube-live
I am youtube partner, but I have not LIVE tab in my account bar, can you please help me to understand WHY?????
Very interesting, and I think this would be great to all musicians,actors, and commedians in the business. I'd like to be on live when everything is working perfectly!
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So when are we going to get this? I'm a partner with 8000 subs, all I see are gaming channels and foreign language TV
Hmmm i need a partner and everything really --Minecraft--
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