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By: Obama’s Big Day on the Web: Smaller Than You Thought [MediaMemo] | LinkTouch

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:01:12 +0000

[...] earlier reports suggested that the Web video audience might have rivaled that of television’s, the Web tracking service says the numbers were more modest. It figures that 13 million people [...]

By: Obama’s Big Day On The Web: Smaller Than You Thought | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:57:34 +0000

[...] earlier reports suggested that the Web video audience might have rivaled that of television’s, the Web tracking service pegs says the numbers were more modest. It figures that 13 million people [...]

By: Weekend Update, 1.24.09 [Digital Daily] | LinkTouch

Weekend Update, 1.24.09 [Digital Daily] | LinkTouch — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:33:11 +0000

[...] Web view can’t be equated with a television viewer, so those numbers remain just estimates. One graph by which viewership can be visualized, though, is the one published by Google (GOOG) of [...]

By: Weekend Update, 1.24.09 | Beth Callaghan | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:26:06 +0000

[...] How Many People Watched Obama’s Inauguration on the Web? A Lot. [...]

By: Bob Rogers

Bob Rogers — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:04:04 +0000

I watched it on whitehouse.gov. How do you find the numbers for that?

By: Eubie’s notes » Blog Archive » Reading around — Jan. 23 - … so I can remember what I’ve read

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:17:08 +0000

[...] How Many People Watched Obama’s Inauguration on the Web? A Lot. — Credit NewTeeVee’s Liz Gannes for trying to get her arms around the size of the audience [...]

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Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:04:24 +0000

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By: How Many People Watched Obama’s Inauguration on the Web? A Lot. [MediaMemo] | heave-ho.org

Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:42:54 +0000

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By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 00:17:07 +0000

Hi Peter, thanks for picking up the post. I realize I should have made it clear that the Nielsen number (37.8m) was for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. I updated.

On the broader topic, you’re right, super-distribution definitely makes metrics much more complicated. And then it’s hard to retroactively get everyone on the same page. It seems like the web isn’t the wild colonizable frontier we might have thought it was.