Over the weekend Red Bull Stratos Felix Baumgartner attempted the impossible by free falling from the edge of space and free falled at speeds of over 600 mph. Besides breaking the freefall record Felix Baumgartner and Redbull broke the record for the “live stream with the most concurrent views ever on YouTube, according to YouTube themselves. Congrats to them.
At peak, there were more than 8 million concurrent live streams, YouTube said in a Sunday blog post. The jump was broadcast on Red Bull’s YouTube channel.
Baumgartner, an Austrian diver, had already set an online record before his jump when more than 7.1 million people tuned in to watch him on YouTube at once; that number continued to climb to a high of 8 million.
[Mashable ]
