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Google’s YouTube Opens Live-Streaming Trial

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Kenneth Corbin
Kenneth Corbin
Sep 13, 2010

Google’s YouTube has long dominated the online video space, and currently racks up nearly eight times as many views as the nearest competitor. But in the live-streaming sector of the online video world, YouTube has largely stayed on the sidelines.

But this week, YouTube is conducting alpha trials of what could become a broadly available live-streaming video product, inviting a quartet of content partners to give it a whirl Monday and Tuesday. Datamation has the details.


Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) YouTube, the runaway leader in online video, has begun trials of a new live-streaming service, potentially laying the groundwork for a new heavyweight in the Webcasting space.

YouTube is alpha-testing its live-streaming service with four content partners this week, and product managers Joshua Siegel and Christopher Hamilton emphasized the preliminary nature of the trial.



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YouTube Launches Live Streaming Trials

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