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Pokémon GO: 50 times the plan

Name: Pokémon GO: 50 times the plan
Uploaded: 2026-10-29T12:16:40.000Z
Duration: 2 min 27 s
Channel: Himanshu Kukreja
Description: Niantic and Google planned for a worst case of 5x their traffic target; Pokémon GO's launch brought 50x, and they rebuilt the platform while it was live.

Niantic and Google planned for a worst case of 5x their traffic target; Pokémon GO's launch brought 50x, and they rebuilt the platform while it was live.

01 · Fifty times

Ten times the worst case.

Worst case: 5x

Before Pokémon GO launched, the team planned for a worst case of five times their traffic target.