YouTube has launched an online broadcast platform

Yes, somehow the launch of one of the most anticipated features of YouTube was without much fanfare and ribbon cutting. A few days ago, Live Streaming platform was announced, which allows you to broadcast any event to the YouTube channel in real time. Earlier, YouTube showed in real time some events, including concerts, shows, interviews with famous people. But now the service has launched the Live streaming platform on an ongoing basis.

According to the management of the service, all this was done in order to improve the content of YouTube, as well as to increase the average time the user spent on the service (now this figure is 15 minutes, and developers plan to increase it to 35 minutes). The YouTube team has been working on the Live streaming technology for several months, and now the platform is being tested in the work of several partners of the company.
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So, testing Live streaming is entrusted to Thomson Reuters, the team at Stanford University and some other partners. The Live streaming project team believes that the new platform really opens up new ways for the development of YouTube, with the possibility of working with new partners and attracting an additional audience. For example, you can only imagine how many people will gather for, for example, the online broadcast of a match of famous boxers, or to broadcast a football match.

Generally speaking, Google is now actively modernizing YouTube. For example, work on creating additional channels, which will be conducted by celebrities, has been carried out for a long time. Considering the fact that some actors, athletes and other famous people have millions of fans, the audience of YouTube, and so big, with time can expand even more. Now it is planned to add more than 20 individual channels, the material for which will be prepared by professionals. Subject channels - art, sports, equipment and more.

Via Youtube-global