Royal wedding breaks Internet records with live stream

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The royal wedding was streamed live on the British royal family's YouTube channel.

29 April,2011 10:10 pm

Britains royal wedding broke records for live streaming on Friday, Internet firms said, causing some websites to falter under the strain as hundreds of millions watched online.The marriage of Prince William to Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, was streamed live on the British royal familys YouTube channel, the first royal wedding to be covered in such a way.Internet company Livestream, which is partnered with Associated Press, CBS and the Press Association, said the event broke its own records, with more than 330,000 concurrent viewers at one point. Akamai, a major traffic carrier, was handling nearly three million simultaneous viewers, breaking its record of 1.6 million concurrent live streams at last years World Cup.The BBC website, which was also showing live coverage, was struggling under the strain Friday morning, intermittently flashing an error message during the ceremony saying the site was experiencing abnormal traffic.Royal wedding coverage and Kate Middleton wedding dress were the two hottest searches on Google while their doodle featured a cartoon of Westminster Abbey with the fairytale couple riding in a horse-drawn carriage and linked to a page of search results on the royal wedding.