CNET: Traffic surge to news sites as web holds (just) for Jackson memorial
July 8th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Online Journalism, Traffic
According to the report, Ustream, which provided livestreaming of the event in partnership with CBS, said it was the largest ever event hosted on the service with 4.6 million streams and 12,000 messages posted every minute to the chatrooms surrounding the streams.
[Also see Lost Remote's post on MSNBC.com's aggregation of tweets around its livestream]
Figures from web usage monitoring company Gomez International suggest news sites were less available, because of the slowdown caused by video streaming, with some taking nearly triple the time to load pages.
Tags: CBS, Gomez International, Jackson memorial CNET, livestreaming, michael jackson, msnbc, ustream, Video, web holds, web usage monitoring
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