As ABC News explores the idea of a 24-hour cable news channel, its digital arm, which includes the 24-hour ABC News Now, just hit a milestone.
For the first time ever, for the month of January, ABC News Digital streamed more than 100 million videos. The game-changer for ABCNews.com has been the partnership with Yahoo! — which puts ABC News in direct competition with CNN.com, which claims to be the #1 broadcast news website. (CNN averaged 101 million monthly video streams in 2011.)
January marks ABC News Digital’s most trafficked month in history with more than 414 million page views to various ABC News sites as well as ABC News stories on Yahoo! News. The online site for “Good Morning America” tripled its monthly traffic and has grown +25% each month since it became part of the Yahoo! domain in October.