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You old romantics you…72 million live streams in 188 countries for the Royal Wedding on YouTube
Friday, 6 May 2011
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are YouTube's newest megastars. Though half the globe was still in darkness, YouTube users from across the world got wedding fever for the Royal Household's official live stream of the landmark wedding on
The Royal Channel
.
The Royal Wedding was live streamed
72 million times
around the world to 188 countries. Those who didn’t see it live still had an opportunity to don their fascinators and catch up with the re-broadcasts later in the day. When it was all said and done, the total streams on April 29, 2011 reached
101 million
as romantics around the globe tuned in to watch the fairytale ceremony, the procession and the final balcony kiss.
And what a kiss it was…during the 10 seconds around the highly-anticipated Royal kiss, the YouTube channel site, powered by Google App Engine, experienced an additional
100,000 requests
on top of the already high load … an effective additional 10,000 requests per second.
Live streams were highest in the UK and the US, but looks like love was in the air across the channel as well. The top 5 countries viewing the live event online were:
United Kingdom
United States
Italy
Germany
France
The online excitement extended to The Official Royal Wedding
website
. Since the launch on March 2, there have been approximately
37.7 million page views from 13.7 million visitors
to the site, which was hosted on Google App Engine and built by Accenture.
The entire live stream of the Royal Wedding, along with video highlights can be found on
The Royal Channel
.
Congratulations to The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge!
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This week's Trends: tornadoes, weddings, and saxophones
Friday, 29 April 2011
Each weekday, we at
YouTube Trends
take a look at the most interesting videos and cultural phenomena on YouTube as they develop. We want take a moment to highlight some of what we've come across this week:
We saw incredible and dramatic footage from tornadoes this week in
Alabama
and
Missouri
.
We looked back at the
10 most watched NBA highlights
from the 2010-2011 season on YouTube.
We discovered
three little girls
you would NOT want to pick a fight with who had trending videos.
We asked if George Michael's "Careless Whisper" has become the
cover song of the month
.
On the day of the Royal Wedding, we looked back at 10 popular
Romance and Wedding videos
from the month of April.
And we asked how one duo's switch to hip-hop covers helped make their videos some of the
most shared this month
:
Check back every day for the latest about what's trending on YouTube at:
www.YouTube.com/Trends
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The Royal Wedding live on YouTube
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
As the historic day approaches, the much-anticipated wedding of Britain's Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton has people around the world buzzing with excitement.
While millions will be in London for the big day, it's clear that people around the world have wedding fever.
Google search trends
show that in addition to the UK and the US, the top ten countries searching for “Royal Wedding” include places like Singapore and the Philippines. In response, we've been working to make as much of the big day as possible accessible to everyone. We
previously
announced the expansion of our Google Earth 3D imagery to offer a “Royals’-eye” view of the entire wedding procession, complete with 3D images of iconic landmarks and five species of digital trees that can be seen along the route.
Today, we’re thrilled that the Royal Household has just announced that footage of the entire ceremony will be live streamed on their official YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel
.
The live stream will begin at
10:00am BST (9:00am GMT, 2:00am PT, 5:00am ET) on Friday, April 29
, and will follow the wedding procession, marriage ceremony at Westminster Abbey and balcony kiss. Alongside the live stream, The Royal Channel will also feature live blog commentary of the event to give timely updates and insights as the day unfolds. For those of you in different time zones, the footage will be reshown in its entirety directly following the event and will be available in full on the site to view afterward.
You don’t have to wait until the big day to "attend" the wedding, though. A video guest book has just been opened on
The Royal Channel
for anyone in the YouTube community to upload messages of congratulations, inspiration or well wishes to the happy couple.
More than 50 years ago, the marriage of The Queen’s sister, Princess Margaret, and Antony Armstrong-Jones was the first royal wedding to be broadcast on television and had over 20 million viewers. This one is already heralded as the first of the Internet age, where for the first time in thousands of years of royal history, the moment will be captured online and preserved forever.
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