YouTube sees over 7.1m viewers on live streaming of IPL
Published on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 21:57 | Source : CNBC-TV18
Updated at Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 10:55
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YouTube sees over 7.1m viewers on live streaming of IPL
YouTube has hit a record viewership with the live streaming of the Indian Premier League. The number touched 7.1 million as of today and is still counting.
YouTube has hit a record viewership with the live streaming of the Indian Premier League. The number touched 7.1 million as of today and is still counting. This number is the highest for YouTube worldwide and Google is now confident that it is ready to showcase other international live games as well.
Viewership in the first two hours of IPL screening stood at 4.5 lakh. This is the highest viewership in two hours of any live screening on the Internet for YouTube.
March 13 viewership touched 1 million while March 15 viewership touched 6.9 million.
Shailesh Rao, MD, Google India, says the company plans similar tie-ups going forward. "IPL streams are expected to be one of the largest by Google."
According to him, Google may look at telecasting international games on YouTube as well.