10 million fans watched live stream U2 concert on YouTube – Foo Fighters have a stream on Facebook
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By admin on Friday, October 30th, 2009 (U2, YouTube)

U2 YouTube10 million people watched the live stream of U2’s concert on YouTube. The streaming of the two and a half hour show was handled by Akamai (and not Google) who also took care of YouTube Live past summer (with up to 700,000 simultanuous views). The recorded version of the full concert is now available on YouTube and has already reached over 1,350,744 views.

In the meantime, Foo Fighters are to to stream a concert on Facebook. The live concert will be aired from the band’s very own Studio 606 in Los Angeles. The live video will be powered by Livestream.

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Watch U2 On YouTube, Live… now!
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By admin on Monday, October 26th, 2009 (Twitter, U2, YouTube)
U2 is streaming their tonight’s concert right now from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California live to YouTube. Although Techcrunch says only 16 countries are able to view the show live (Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain, U.K., U.S.), you can add Belgium to that list. The show is live now at www.youtube.com/U2 .
For those using Twitter, YouTube added a Twitter widget below the video player displaying tweets from people using the #U2webcast hashtag. In addition to streaming the concert, YouTube will also put up the entire recording on its U2 page tomorrow.
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U2 YouTubeU2 is streaming their tonight’s concert right now from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California live to YouTube. Although Techcrunch says only 16 countries are able to view the show live (Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, South Korea, Spain, U.K., U.S.), you can add Belgium to that list. The show is live now at www.youtube.com/U2 .

For those using Twitter, YouTube added a Twitter widget below the video player displaying tweets from people using the #U2webcast hashtag. In addition to streaming the concert, YouTube will also put up the entire recording on its U2 page tomorrow.

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