Saturday, April 30, 2011

Live Stream Of Royal Wedding Breaks Internet Records

The marriage of Prince William to Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, was streamed live on the British royal family's YouTube channel, the first royal wedding to be covered in such a way.

Livestream, said the event broke its own records, with more than 330,000 viewers at one point.

On Twitter, nine of the top 10 trending topics were related to the royal wedding.

The BBC website, was struggling under the strain Friday morning, intermittently flashing an error message during the ceremony saying the site was experiencing "abnormal traffic".

The two hottest searches on Google were "Royal wedding coverage" and "Kate Middleton wedding dress", (where's pippa ? :) )which devoted the celebrated logo on its home page to the royal wedding and they mapped the royal procession route in 3D.

Palace officials hosted a live multimedia blog on the royal site, where visitors could congratulate the couple in an online wedding book and make donations to the Royal Wedding Charity Fund.

Fears that the global media event, expected to draw two billion viewers worldwide and many of them online could "break" the Internet proved unfounded.



 

42 commentaires:

fit4life said...

why do people care so damn much?!

Dav0h said...

Pfft, he's no Charles..

Lunarchy said...

The bandwidth demands, so insane! +Follow

B Jeezy said...

f the royal family

Blogging Skater said...

wow, thats a lot of viewers!

Psicon said...

she's hot

PackScoot said...

so Glad i didnt watch this! kate middleton though.. ;)

Ronald said...

wow, broke records? really?

Sety said...

wow that's a lot of viewers

Alt Gr said...

Curious that I'm not interested in this wedding, at all.

Anonymous said...

... are the veins in his neck standing out in that picture? I mean that looks like he is straining. Maybe it was the 10 pounds of clothes and metal on his shoulders.

Dave said...

That is a LOT of viewers

RobinV said...

It was long and tedious, I was lucky to take a peek at the least tedious moment.

Unknown said...

I'm so glad this is over with, well to a point, but for the most part it is done, Yes!

Kamatacci said...

I am not one of those people who watched it online. But my mom did Tivo it :(

Jay Reid said...

That's quite insane.

TMH said...

Didn't watch it, wouldn't have a clue what happened lol.

Fwission said...

I find it funny that Americans are more interested in royals than British people.

thoff74 said...

The royal wedding was just something I wasn't interested in at all.

lacrosseman said...

royal wedding=broadcasted everywhere

ZERO said...

I wish I had enough bandwith to stream HD :/

Blog Hunt said...

royal wedding was ok.. t

Scrogglez said...

i didnt watch it, what did i miss?

philmin9 said...

its amazing how many people will watch this.

Jesse Crows said...

haha i saw that coming

The Awesome Alien said...

shes hot and he looks like a douche bag

Sorilla said...

wow, totally expected. over 1 million croatians watched this! XD

Puff Jay said...

I don't rly even care 'bout the royal family :D

Mundo Smash said...

I'm kinda happy to say I DIDN'T watch :D

baka1236 said...

i really couldn't be asked to watch the wedding

Xiism said...

Too much in the media about this :/

kxxthanxx said...

awesome blog! gonna be following

K said...

2 billion viewers is absolutely insane! :O

Pony said...

Caught my whole family watching this the other day. It's pretty crazy

Matt said...

I read somewhere that the royal wedding had over 20 million TV views. Just wow.

Anonymous said...

I can't see the attraction to weddings that people seem to crave :|

From The Kitchen said...

Expecting 2 billion viewers? Jeez. I thought the numbers that they actually got were excessive.

I just don't understand all the excitement ._.

Clint Mullins said...

I think this is pretty stupid. Its two people with fake power getting married! Who cares!

Simon black said...

Just two people getting married, dont really get the big deal about it.

drombo said...

Chinese watched that closely too, they copied the dress just before the ceremony ended!

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