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U2 on YouTube, LIVE from the Rose Bowl

Mashable  Oct 25 09

It’s one of the biggest live-streamed events this year: in a matter of minutes, YouTube will go live with the U2 Rose Bowl concert video stream on the Official U2 Channel (update: stream now live, show starts at 9pm PT). The stream will be available in 16 countries and could see hundreds of thousands – perhaps millions or more – flocking to the site. It’s a massive technical challenge, but if anyone can handle that load, it’s Google.

As we wrote of the event earlier this week:

The Google-owned video website has streamed the Outside Lands concert and an Obama press conference in recent months, but now it’s going to stream the Rose Bowl concert of one of the world’s most popular bands: U2

The live streaming event, which begins on Sunday, October 25th at 8:30 PM PT, will be available in 16 countries. Full story...



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