{"id":12437,"date":"2010-09-13T10:19:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T09:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/youtube-testing-live-streaming\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:10:35","slug":"youtube-testing-live-streaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-testing-live-streaming\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube testing live streaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>YouTube<\/strong> is finally testing <strong>live streaming<\/strong> at various times today and tomorrow. You can check out the schedule <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube-global.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/testing-testingyoutube-begins-trial-of.html\"><strong>on its blog<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2010\/09\/youchoob.png\" align=\"middle\" height=\"422\" width=\"529\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t for a minute think that this will turn YouTube into <strong>Justin.tv<\/strong>, where anyone can just switch on a webcam and broadcast anything to the world. YouTube is working with &#8216;<strong>partners<\/strong>&#8216; on this, bringing you essentially live streaming TV. To me that sounds like, well, TV.<\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest things about the internet is being able to watch what you want, whenever you want, so I&#8217;m not sure what a non-archived live stream will really add to the story. However, previous live events have proved popular on YouTube, and &#8216;live&#8217; is a much better environment for advertising.<\/p>\n<p>If the tests are successful, it&#8217;s not clear how far YouTube will roll out live streaming. They say<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>all broadcasters need is a webcam or external USB\/FireWire camera.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that they use the word <strong>broadcaster<\/strong>, not <strong>user<\/strong>. Trials start at <strong>8:00 AM PST<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube is finally testing live streaming at various times today and tomorrow. You can check out the schedule on its blog. Don&#8217;t for a minute think that this will turn YouTube into Justin.tv, where anyone can just switch on a webcam and broadcast anything to the world. YouTube is working with &#8216;partners&#8216; on this, bringing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-testing-live-streaming\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YouTube testing live streaming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2355],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-12437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionyoutube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334754,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12437\/revisions\/334754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12437"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=12437"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=12437"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=12437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}