When skydiver Felix Baumgartner fell from near space – about 23 miles above the earth’s surface – he became the first free-falling human to break the sound barrier. However, that may not have been the only record set.
At the peak of the YouTube coverage of the event, there were approximately 8 million concurrent viewers from around the world, likely a record for YouTube. The company claims that they had millions of live viewers during the first Presidential debate, and during a peak of YouTube’s Olympic coverage, it delivered video for more than a half million concurrent live streams.
Google is slowly aggregating a viewing audience for live events, and offering its streams to a global audience is certainly making that happen more quickly. The more live events Google can offer, the easier it will be for on-the-fence cable subscribers to cut the cord.
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