Yahoo! Live or also known now as Y! Live made its debut to the public yesterday. Many people were late to the party and got there when the party was at maximum capacity. Everyone included myself were greeted by the image above. The most visited site on the net could not handle a few hundred people going to live.yahoo.com to watch some live streams. It seems that the Yahoo! Live team were not expecting this many people and it makes me wonder why they didn’t have some sort of private beta to help test this thing out before it was open to everyone. One thing that is safe to say is the service will run smoothly once they throw some servers at.
Having a major internet brand like Yahoo! jump into the live streaming business is going have a major impact on some of the live video sites. If Y! Live becomes slightly popular you could see other major companies such as Google and News Corp joining in and trying to play catch up. The easiest way to play catch up would be to buy a startup. So is it possible that in the future we could see such sites as Justin.tv, Ustream or even BlogTV being bought up. Guess we will just to wait and see what the future holds. I’m anxious to see what happens.
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2 Responses for "Y! Live open to public. What impact will it have?"
Cool looking platform from what I’ve seen. What impact? I’m thinking the higher end geeks that have thought about live streaming but haven’t will because this is a tool by one of the top dogs. I think ustream got a majority of the buzz in the beginning, and Justin.tv got buzz because of Justin. This is getting buzz because it’s Yahoo and they had some celebrities broadcasting the day it launched.
I agree with you. Livecasting is a wave that is going crash upon the shore with Yahoo.
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