Online streaming videos are really becoming a thing right now.
I’m personally not a big fan of streaming videos, but it apparently has become a popular trend for their fast and accessible characteristics for today’s tech-generation.
YouTubeannounced its live streaming page last Friday on April 8th, so I’ve tried watching some of the videos available, as of today. The content and the variety of the videos are quite limited and there seems to be a lot of lagging and some bad quality videos in general. (Or it may be just my computer…It’s been driving me crazy!) I’m not a big YouTube watcher, but I guess there was live streaming before this which led to such outcome…
One definite eye-catcher is the Live Webcast of Coachella, which will start broadcasting tomorrow at 11:00 PDT. Having such a huge event streamed-live online can be a great promotion for YouTube. The goal of this webpage was to “stream a number of popular concerts, sporting events, and interviews, but primarily on a one-off basis.” If the results are good, it will probably receive much more offers from sponsors. Who knows? We might even decide to get rid of our TVs in the future.
To think of it, I’m curious as to how YouTube and its sponsors profit from this. Are they planning to flood the video with advertisements when it becomes popular? Will they change it to a paid-per-view type of thing in the future? Or are they really that generous to deliver the best concerts and shows to the mass audience for free??? Now I’m just lost…
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