Millions Turn to ABC News Digital for Michael Jackson Memorial Coverage

ABC News Digital delivered a total of nearly 6 million live video streams of the Michael Jackson memorial service on ABCNEWS.com and across its partner sites including Yahoo!, Verizon, Charter, AT&T and RCN on Tuesday, July 7. The site streamed ABC News NOW, the network’s digital channel’s live coverage of the memorial. ABC News Digital also had an additional 5 million video views of Michael Jackson related content onABCNEWS.com, the ABC News branded Channel on YouTube and on the ABC News iPhone application.

ABCNEWS.com site uniques also marked a significant increase of more than 70 percent over the average daily traffic during the past 30 weekdays, and page views were up 69 percent over the average daily traffic during the past 30 weekdays. ABC News Mobile saw over half a million hits to its site at m.abcnews.com.

Through a special application, Facebook users were able to talk about the service directly on ABCNEWS.com while watching the live stream of the event. Nearly 100,000 Facebook members joined the conversation about the memorial on ABCNEWS.com, generating about 50,000 status updates in total.

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