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August 17, 2012 11:40 pm GMT

YouTube And The Olympics: 231M Video Streams And Up To 500K Concurrent Viewers

Official Olympic ChannelThe less said about the quality of NBC's Olympics coverage in the U.S., the better, but in terms of the quantity of live and recorded Olympics video streamed this year, the partnership between NBC and YouTube clearly worked out well. Even by YouTube's standards, live streaming the Olympics for NBC was a pretty massive undertaking and the company just releasednew data about its Olympics coverage from earlier this month. At its peak, the service pushed out more than half a million livestreams at the same time. On NBCOlympics.com, YouTube says, viewers watched more than 159 million total streams and just over a third of these came from mobile devices and more than 50% were in HD.

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