In October 2012, Red Bull Stratos broadcast Felix Baumgartner’s freefall from 128,000 feet. With over eight million concurrent viewers, it proved YouTube could host global television-scale moments in real time.
Over eight million people watched live as Felix Baumgartner stepped out of a capsule thirty-nine kilometers above Earth. It broke records and established YouTube as a premiere global broadcaster for once-in-a-lifetime real-world events.