THE FOCUSED MIND » Felix Baumgartner http://blog.inferentialfocus.com Tue, 02 Jun 2015 16:15:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.35 Streaming the Falling http://blog.inferentialfocus.com/index.php/2012/10/streaming-the-falling/ http://blog.inferentialfocus.com/index.php/2012/10/streaming-the-falling/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:11:50 +0000 http://blog.inferentialfocus.com/?p=221 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  Continue Reading »]]> 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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