How many viewers watched cnn.coms live stream of the michael jackson memorial?”
We knew that Michael Jackson’s memorial service would be one of the biggest events in Internet history, and so far, the numbers are confirming it. We’ve learned that CNN.com’s live stream of the event drew at least 9.7 million views (through 5pm ET), with a maximum of 781,000 concurrent viewers. While that falls short of the 27 million total and 1.3 million concurrent live streams that President Obama’s inauguration saw on CNN.com, it would appear that users were more engaged in the company’s Facebook Connect integration for Jackson, with upwards of 6,000 status updates being posted per minute earlier today. CNN also reports that their website has received 11.8 million unique visitors and 81 million page views so far today. Elsewhere around the Web, TwitterTwitterTwitter is seeing massive volume of Jackson-related tweets. In addition to occupying all 10 of Twitter’s trending topics, we now know that the term “Michael Jackson” alone was genera
According to Mashable CNN’s live stream coverage of Michael Jackson’s Memorial reached a whopping 9.7 million views with a maximum of 781,000 concurrent viewers, just shy of CNN’s record set by Barack Obama’s inauguration which reached 27 million total and 1.3 million concurrent live streams. Other services streaming Jackson’s Memorial live reached record setting numbers including: UStream, who brodcasted CBS’ News coverage, reporting approx 4.6 million streams of the event and Justin.tv, which broadcasted E!’s coverage, which has not released their streaming numbers, but reports 150,000 impressions of the page hosting their video feed. MSN.com according to a site spokesperson, received its biggest traffic spike ever during the Jackson event, with 50% more people watching the memorial than watched Barack Obama’s inauguration. The site delivered more than 3 million streams.
We knew that Michael Jackson’s memorial service would be one of the biggest events in Internet history, and so far, the numbers are confirming it. We’ve learned that CNN.com’s live stream of the event drew at least 9.7 million views (through 5pm ET), with a maximum of 781,000 concurrent viewers. While that falls short of the 27 million total and 1.3 million concurrent live streams that President Obama’s inauguration saw on CNN.com, it would appear that users were more engaged in the company’s Facebook Connect integration for Jackson, with upwards of 6,000 status updates being posted per minute earlier today. CNN also reports that their website has received 11.8 million unique visitors and 81 million page views so far today.
