YouTube have opened up live streaming to all partner accounts in good standing that have more that a 1000 subscribers. This is a welcome move and one that will further increase the popularity, fund and adrenalin kick of streaming your content live!
To quote the YouTube blog post:
YouTube Live allows you to offer your audience a great viewing experience, with great streaming quality and instant scalability and reliability. Here are some key features:
- You get real-time transcoding in the cloud, so you only need to send us your highest quality stream and we make it instantly available in all resolutions and device formats
- You can show multiple camera angles, add closed captions, and insert ads and slates
- Viewers can watch the live stream from any device, get the best quality constantly adjusting to their Internet connection, and can skip back and forth in the live stream
For more details check out the full YouTube blog post.
