...people like Will.I.Am and Katy Perry (the San Francisco-based event featured music performances, comedy, and memes and popular people of YouTube). These stats arent precise, but based on public Akamai before/ after numbers during the time. Mogulus also reports that Google partnered with content delivery network Akamai to support all the users. (Note Mogulus is a competitor in the space of content delivery/ streaming help.)

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch writes, Despite the fact that Google has its own quite impressive CDN -content delivery network-, streaming live video (as opposed to progressive downloads, which YouTube has historically relied on) is hard stuff. And expensive " you have to license Adobes Flash Media Server, or a competitor like Wowza, and pay at least a couple of cents per gigabyte transferred on top of normal costs.

Included links: Mogulus, YouTube Live

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