The weeks-long livestreaming on YouTube of the birth of a giraffe racked up more than 232 million live views and some 7.6 billion minutes of live watch time from Feb. 10 through Saturday, when April finally gave birth to a male calf.
YouTube head of culture and trends Kevin Allocca said in a blog post that despite only launching 66 days ago, Animal Adventure Park surged to become the second most live-viewed channel in the history of the Google-owned video site.
Other stats related to April the giraffe from Allocca included:
- Average time watched for the livestream was more than 30 minutes, across a daily average of 3.5
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