Tonight at 8PM Eastern YouTube will kick off their first live streaming event. There will be no shortage of online coverage, speculation already abounds as to if and who their partner will be since moving into live streaming as a business model would complicate YouTube’s already cloudy prospects.
Either way it’s a major event for YouTube. Do it well, scale to a cable TV size audience and they go a long way toward proving the value of their portal and live streaming as a TV competitor. Screw it up and everyone’s watching.
Either way, there’s nothing like watching something go down live. Tune in here.