In 2012 a new sport will be streaming live on YouTube—professional bull riding! YouTube reports that starting next month the over 100 million worldwide Professional Bull Riders (PBR) fans will be able to watch this classic sport live.
Launch a social media campaign that will build your brand and deliver results in our online Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting June 7. Speakers include Abigail Cusick (Bravo Digital), Gregory Galant (Sawhorse Media), Alex Leo (Thomson Reuters Digital), Jim Tobin (Ignite Social Media), and many more. Read the reviews. 
As Hurricane Irene continues to creep up the East Coast, folks in New York and the world over are waiting to see what will happen when the storm hits the Big Apple. Watch the hurricane live in New York via Livestream’s Hurricane Live Cam.
Letteri, a five-time Oscar winner, and Lemmon will provide a look into WETA’s process as a worldwide social media presentation. Visitors to the livestream event will hear from other filmmakers, including director Rupert Wyatt, and get a behind-the-scenes look at the work of actor Andy Serkis, whose nuanced performance is playing a key role in WETA’s rendering of Caesar, the film’s principal ape character.
YouTube is currently in talks with both the National Hockey League (NHL) and the National Basketball League (NBA) about streaming live shows. But will the big leagues bite?
Paramount Pictures has teamed with Livestream to present the live movie premiere of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never. The live 2 1/2-hour purple carpet event, which will begins today at 5:00 p.m. PT, marks the first time Paramount will stream a movie premiere exclusively on Livestream.
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It’s that time of year: New Year’s Eve is only 24 days away, so the Times Square Alliance, Countdown Entertainment, and Livestream announced their plans for a live, six-and-a-half-hour, commercial-free Webcast of the celebration from New York’s Times Square.
The organizers said the Webcast will be made up of five story lines: One World Revealed, which will share the stories of people from everywhere around the globe who traveled to Times Square to be part of the festivities; What It Takes, a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the New Year’s Eve celebration; Celebrate Community, in which viewers from more than 190 countries will chat and share photos and video via Facebook chat, Twitter chat, or Tweeting hashtag #TimesSquareBall; Times Square, a look at the history of the world’s most famous intersection; and The Official New Year’s Eve Live Blogcast Headquarters, “the central nervous system of the global celebration,” located at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square.
Free, customizable widgets will be offered for blogs, Web sites, and digital media outlets to embed the live stream, and it can also be viewed at TimesSquareNYC.org, Livestream.com/2011, and TimesSquareBall.net.
Earlier this month we reported that the Thai government blocked Justin.tv in order to quell anti-government protests online. The censorship continues, as the Thai government has blocked Livestream as well. This recent act of censorship occurred at the end of last week, following heightened protests in Bangkok.
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