Written by Liz Gannes
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 at 10:37 PM PT

 

Steve Chen: YouTube to Add Live Video

YouTube will support live video before the end of this year, co-founder Steve Chen told Pop17 videoblogger Sarah Meyers. Check out the clip:

The background party music is thumping, so here’s a transcript:

Meyers: “When are you guys gonna do live video on YouTube?”

Chen: “2008. We’ll do it this year.

“Live video is just something that we’ve always wanted to do, we’ve never had the resources to do it correctly, but now with Google, we hope to actually do it this year.”

Justin, you better haul your life-streaming rig over to San Bruno while there’s still time to cut a deal. Meanwhile, the guys at Yahoo Live should be totally psyched to relinquish the title of being the last people in the world to launch their own live video service.

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Comments (12)

  • Very cool. I’m writing about this on my wordpress blog after my live show today. Thanks Liz! x

    sarahmeyers — 6:46 AM on February 29, 2008

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    directfree — 5:10 AM on March 4, 2008

  • “we’ve never had the resources to do it correctly” ?????
    and what about 4 independant french people doing LIVE broadcast for all on http://www.blog-video.TV ????

    sorry i’m really confused, does that service need Microsoft or Google behind ? maybe it’s just bigbrother people need…
    i hope at least video quality will be better than presently…

    kimline — 11:50 AM on March 4, 2008

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  • Videoblogger Sarah Meyers got some fresh information from YouTube co-founder Steve Chen that live video is coming to YouTube in 2008

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    arnimation — 12:03 PM on May 28, 2008

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