YouTube is Going Live-Streaming Crazy

It seems that live-streaming is gaining in popularity over at YouTube. Live-streaming is nothing new. Sites like UStream has been doing it for a long time now. But when a site as big and well-known as YouTube does it, viewership is high.

Over the past weekend, the annual 3-day Coachella music festival streamed live on YouTube, of which I watched all of it except for the last couple hours on Sunday because I had to wake up early the next day. It was awesome.

Next Friday, April 29th, 2011, YouTube will be airing the royal wedding of Prince William & Catherine Middleton. The broadcast will start at 10am BST (9 am GMT, 2 am PT, 5 am ET) on the official channel at http://www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel.

I won’t be watching that one because I don’t really have any interest, but I love what YouTube is doing. This goes to show the reach that YouTube has as compared to the smaller live-streaming sites.

Personally, I hope that live broadcasts of concerts takes off. Watching Coachella was one of the funnest things I’ve ever experienced online.