http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/11/03/yahoo-live-gestates-for-9-months-wont-survive-delivery/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:32:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://digital.venturebeat.com/2008/11/03/yahoo-live-gestates-for-9-months-wont-survive-delivery/comment-page-1/#comment-833208 YouTube Live not just an event after all, but a live-streaming service? » VentureBeat Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:04:27 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=99938#comment-833208 [...] It’s been widely publicized that YouTube’s parent, Google, has had a hard time monetizing the site, and live streaming may even be harder to do given the sporadic nature of on-the-fly content. It would also be very expensive in terms of bandwidth costs to run a live streaming site, as Silicon Alley Insider noted back in August and as was evidenced by Yahoo’s recent decision to shut down Yahoo Live, it’s live streaming service. [...] [...] It’s been widely publicized that YouTube’s parent, Google, has had a hard time monetizing the site, and live streaming may even be harder to do given the sporadic nature of on-the-fly content. It would also be very expensive in terms of bandwidth costs to run a live streaming site, as Silicon Alley Insider noted back in August and as was evidenced by Yahoo’s recent decision to shut down Yahoo Live, it’s live streaming service. [...]

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