Comments on: YouTube Live Tokyo Fails

By: Herb Gilliland

Herb Gilliland — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:14:12 +0000

Seems like it may have been too ambitious — streaming on large scales like we are talking here is still a far reach from the reliability of other media platforms.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:52:23 +0000

I was at YouTube Live in San Francisco… IT WAS LIVE!
NO COMMERCIALS NO BREAKS

YouTube Livre Tokio WAS NOT BROADCASTED… ONLY YUOTUBE LIVE was broadcasted
all the dumb BoA fans got mixed up… if you want to see their performance go to the YouTube Live Tokio page

By: Alfred Remigio

Alfred Remigio — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 10:47:02 +0000

Hm… Maybe some underhanded means was used there, eh, Sir Mike?

By: Mike Abundo

Mike Abundo — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:01:50 +0000

You could be on to something, Alfred. YouTube Live featured Lionsgate, Activision, Virgin America, Flip Video, and HP as sponsors. YouTube Live Tokyo just had Toyota.

By: Alfred Remigio

Alfred Remigio — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:19:40 +0000

Maybe the main reason it failed was because of little to no advertising in Tokyo? It’s IMHO that somehow it didn’t catch much of the people’s attention and nabbed only a niche audience.

By: Mike Abundo

Mike Abundo — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:10:28 +0000

Good thing BoA eventually showed up.

By: YouTube Now Live but How â€¦Lively?

YouTube Now Live but How â€¦Lively? — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:27:01 +0000

[...] raise the interest of some viewers (although not impressive by number), Tokyo webcast was a fiasco. Mike Abundo says in YouTube Live Tokyo Fails: Whereas YouTube Live in San Francisco attracted 700,000 concurrent [...]

By: kajeto-kun

kajeto-kun — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:22:54 +0000

BoA IS DEAD

By: Mike Abundo

Mike Abundo — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:54:29 +0000

guest: YouTube Live’s monumental success is matched only by YouTube Live Tokyo’s monumental failure.

whocares: I’ll admit, I checked.

By: whocares

whocares — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:52:04 +0000

wasn’t it you who posted comments like “Okay guys, be honest. How many of you checkedï»¿ Google News to make sure BoA wasn’t dead” and “Wait ’til 4chan gets a hold of this.”?