According to MSN.com, they as well as others recieved a record-setting viewership during Michael Jackson's memorial Tuesday. According to a site spokesperson, MSN.com received its biggest traffic spike ever during the Jackson event, with 50% more people watching the memorial than watched Barack Obama's inauguration.The site delivered more than 3 million streams, over at CNN.com, however, the event was the second-largest live video streaming day in the site's history. The network reported 81 million pageviews and 9.7 million live video streams between 12 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET -- which included the entire memorial service. The news site's all-time viewership record for a full day was nearly 27 million video streams on President Obama's inauguration day.
A spokesperson for Akamai, a company that handles Internet traffic for a large number of outlets, also said the Jackson memorial was the second-largest online traffic surge of all time.
And if measuring only across Akamai's news sites, Jackson's memorial ranking falls further. Akamai registered a peak rate of 3.9 million global Internet visitors per minute around noon, which failed to crack the service's top 15 events in that particular measurement.
And if measuring only across Akamai's news sites, Jackson's memorial ranking falls further. Akamai registered a peak rate of 3.9 million global Internet visitors per minute around noon, which failed to crack the service's top 15 events in that particular measurement.