CNN.com sees 400 per cent traffic spike by Tuesday afternoon
November 5th, 2008Posted by Judith Townend in Broadcasting, Multimedia, Online Journalism
This from Beet.TV, an interview with CNN.com and CNN International. By 3pm US time, the sites had received 88 million page views this afternoon, three to four times more than on an average weekday, executive vice president of CNN News Services Susan Grant told Beet.TV. In this clip:
- CNN.com Live (with has four simultaneous live streams), had generated 1.6 million views domestically and internationally – seven times higher than an average full day.
- Grant expects today’s (Wednesday’s) traffic to be even higher.
- Grant said that election day concerns were centred on the site’s capacity to handle the traffic, but that it was coping fine so far.
- Grant also discusses CNN’s mobile offerings and its live video feed available through AT&T and Sprint.
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