YouTube to Stream Royal Wedding Live

There is no escaping the Royal Hype Machine, and immediately YouTube is getting in on the act. Google has announced the April 29 wedding between Britain's Prince William and Lose Catherine Thomas Middleton volition be streamed live on YouTube. Majestic-watchers, anglophiles, and the merely curious will be able-bodied to watch every minute of the ceremony happening the authorized YouTube Swayer Channel.

"Much 50 years ago, the marriage of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, and Antony Armstrong-Mother Jones was the original royal wedding to be broadcast on television set and had ended 20 million viewers," wrote Google's Rachel Ball in a Tuesday blog situatio. "This one is already heralded as the low of the Net age, where for the first time in thousands of years of royal stag history, the second will beryllium captured online and preserved forever."

Indeed, the royal streaming English hawthorn be a sign of things to come, As organizers of live events turn to the Net to stretch a global audience. Earlier this calendar month, Google launched YouTube Animate, new branch of the picture-sharing service that streams reverberant events rather than the recorded videos found on the regular YouTube site.

For Britain's royal family–As well as other paradigm-conscious individuals and organizations–YouTube Last provides an appealing platform where they contain the message. Exist-streaming frees case planners from the whims of third parties, such as disperse networks that may atomic number 4 less enthusiastic about showing all minute of the ceremonial. And I suspect the Purple Canalize's coverage won't include snarky cable TV hosts intent on ridiculing the bridesmaids' dresses or Prince William's retiring hairline.

There will be commentary, even so. The Royal Channel testament feature live updates and insights throughout the case. If you chance to pretermit it live, the wedding will be available for viewing on the site afterward. The live stream begins Friday, April 29 at 10:00a BST (9:00a GMT, 2:00a Platinum, 5:00a ET).

If, by chance, your invitation got lost in the mail, will you watch the royal wedding party live connected YouTube?

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