Royal Wedding Caused Record-Breaking Spike in Web Video Traffic

Even though the Royal Wedding was broadcast in the U.S. in the wee hours of Friday, Broadcast & Cable reports that “a few early numbers are showing that the event boosted live video streams to record levels for some providers.”

Akamai, which handled the transmission of live streams from the Royal Wedding for Fox News, CBS and about two dozen outlets from around the world over its network, reported peak traffic of about 2.9 million live streams over its network during the event.

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