YouTube broadcasts first live show

WASHINGTON: YouTube, the popular video-sharing Internet site streamed a two-hour live broadcast at youtube.comlive featuring well- to lesser-known singers, dancers and video bloggers who became online celebrities through YouTube.

Filmed before a live audience in San Francisco’s, the show opened with a scantily clad Katy Perry performing her song Hot and Cold, a title which pretty much summed up the evening for the tens of thousands of users of the comments board.

Other performers included virtuoso guitarist Joe Satriani, who jammed with Funtwo, a guitarist whose YouTube video went viral in 2006 and made him into an online sensation.

Other moments included YouTube tributes to itself and the role it played in the presidential election, serving as a favourite platform for videos by the campaigns and co-hosting debates with the CNN. Google purchased YouTube for $1.65 bn in 2006.