Updated: Jackson Memorial Draws Massive Web Stats
Michael Jackson’s memorial service in Los Angeles on Tuesday drove a huge audience to the Web to watch the proceedings live. But the ceremony ultimately fell short of the medium’s landmark live event to date: President Obama’s inauguration last January.
For example, CNN.com attracted 11.8 million unique users who had viewed 9.7 million live video streams as of 5 p.m. on Tuesday—peaking at 781,000 concurrent users. For the inauguration the site generated a whopping 26.9 million live video streams globally.
Similarly,
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