As expected, Michael Jackson‘s memorial service yesterday brought in some big viewership numbers, especially on the web.
CNN reports that global web traffic yesterday rose to at least 19% above normal and peaked at 33% during the actual broadcast of the King of Pop’s memorial. CNN.com itself reported an astounding 9.7 million live video streams throughout the day, coming in only second to the site’s all-time viewership record (President Barack Obama brought in 27 million video streams the day of his inauguration.)
Still, the numbers are very impressive and they continue on, as the site boasts a “peak of 781,000 concurrent live video streams” during the memorial broadcast and that the news outlet’s website garnered 81 million page views.
We wouldn’t expect anything less for the King of Pop.
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