The 29 April wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton sent a record flood of traffic to streaming video sites on Friday.
Considered to be among the most highly-anticipated events in recent years, the marriage of the newly appointed Duke and Duchess of Cambridge brought huge traffic to sites offering live coverage, and causing at least one major media outlet to buckle under the pressure
At roughly 11:13, the BBC first gave word of technical difficulties in its online coverage of the event. Then 17 minutes later, the site issued an official statement explaining the issue.
"We are experiencing some technical issues with BBC Online due to the sheer weight of traffic which may cause the site to be slower than normal in some cases," the BBC said in the statement.
The BBC was not the only site to experience heavy traffic from the event. Video streaming service LiveStream offered its own coverage of the event, and the stream reportedly drew record traffic numbers.
According to online news blog Mashable, traffic for the LiveStream feed of the event exceeded 300,000 simultaneous viewers at one point, and total traffic was forecast to top two million views.
For Google, the event was the culmination of growing interest on the royal wedding over the month. The company reported that since the beginning of April, total search volumes for the event spiked by 90 per cent.
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