Obama Inauguration Largest Online Viewing Event of 2009?
[Obama Presidency Channel on Hulu]Of course Barack Obama’s inauguration is drawing huge attention–both national U.S. and worldwide–if nothing more than the U.S. has the opportunity to change in a completely new direction for the first time in eight years.
With huge attention comes huge online viewership. Services that stream decent content libraries like Hulu and Netflix Watch Instantly (even Joost canceled its software version and converted it to a web application version) have exploded in traffic growth throughout 2008–and according to Quantcast, leveled off after the election.
Hulu & Joost vs. Veoh (established video network)
So the real question is how many people will actually turn out for this event to watch it live on the web? Online viewership on NBC.com jumped from 330,000 unique visitors in Athens 2004 to more than 2.6 million in Beijing 2008–on opening ceremony day alone. NBC has pumped out nearly 20,000 hours of Olympic content to feed this insatiable desire for portable entertainment.
Other web services may also be at risk: even the Hudson River plane crash just took Twitter offline a few days ago. Check out this list of the places the inauguration is streaming live on January 20th! Lifehacker has a comprehensive list here too. Stay tuned…and don’t forget to watch our new President along with the rest of the world.
Online viewership on NBC.com jumped from 330,000 unique visitors in Athens 2004 to more than 2.6 million in Beijing 2008–on opening ceremony day alone..
(277.000) Grf
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