Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain each have their own "channel" on YouTube. However, the disparity in the number of views is absolutely astonishing. Barack's videos have received about 13 million views while Hillary's videos have received about 1.5 million and John's videos have received about 600,000.
Perhaps even more astonishing is the fact that Barack Obama's speech on race this past week has already been viewed about 3 million times. This means that the video of the speech is being viewed about 600,000 times in a single day or 25,000 times an hour or 416 times a minute or 7 times a second. In one day, Barack Obama's speech is being watched as many times as all of John McCain's videos combined.
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2 comments:
That is remarkable data. I'm particularly struck by the rate at which his speech on race is being viewed. In the past, such a speech would have been seen in full only by those who tuned in. I suspect that more people will shortly have watched in YouTube than saw it as broadcast.
I was surprised that the Obama campaign had the speech at about 11am EST (8amPST). I would think that the campaign would have the speech at a time where more individuals would view it.
Nonetheless, I suspect that more individuals have watched the speech on YouTube now than on cable tv, even though MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN carried it live.
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