U2's YouTube Concert Grabs 10 Million Live Streams

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U2's YouTube Concert Grabs 10 Million Live Streams
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The LA Times reports that Sunday's show generated 10 million streams across 7 continents. The whole show was archived on YouTube Monday and has been viewed more than 1 million times since then.

YouTube is calling the U2 concert the largest event in the company's history and it very well could be a glimpse into what the Google-owned service plans in the future.

After all, it's hard to make money off of short-form content, but with live streams, YouTube could potentially capitalize and maybe even come up with a payment model (a la Pay-Per-View) for really big events.

You can check out U2's concert here:

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