Several digital operations, including CNN, have set new records for the overall audience.
This week was also one of the two most watched days in CNN’s 40-year history.
The interest of the off-the-charts in the election result was evident on Tuesday, a day traditionally known as election day.
According to Akamai, the overall television viewership of the prime time election coverage was below the high of 201 highs, according to Akamai, the live news streaming traffic increased.
Streaming traffic reached a point that was about five times more than a normal day’s traffic, “said the content delivery network company, and doubled the peak of the election night of the 201st election,” which set a record for the largest single. News event delivered by Akamai. “
Tuesday night ended without a clear winner in the presidential race, so Wednesday was still a big day for some big news sources. Meredith Kopit Lavian, CEO of The New York Times, said her coverage on Wednesday “brought 120 million readers to the Times” and “more than 75 million people came the next day.”
CNN Digital recorded 67 million plus unique visitors on Tuesday and about 6 116 million on Wednesday.
It was CNN Digital’s “biggest day in history,” Chief Meredith Artili said on Twitter.
“The entire global team is proud of the overall reach and responsibility,” he wrote. “And here it is today and for all.”
CBS News also said that Wednesday was a bigger day for its streaming service CBSN than Tuesday. The service created new records for the total minutes viewed each day.
A NBC spokesman said that during mid-Friday, NBC News Digital had collected nearly 500 million total views on all video and election content since the start of the election.
The nail-biter contest in some war-torn states also enthralled very high-profile television news viewers. Fox News was the highest rated cable news channel on Tuesday night, while CNN was at No. 1 on Wednesday and Thursday, showing widespread interest in the minute through minute vote count coverage.
Wednesday’s election day was CNN’s “second-most-watched day in the network’s 40-year history since 2016,” the network said in a press release. Thursday’s order is the 6th order of all time.
On the web, the Washington Post reported that both Tuesday and Wednesday were “record-setting days;” The Wednesday Post website said it has “more than 40% of page views in history.”
According to a spokesman for the Post, the news outlet this week “also dramatically increased international reach,” more than doubling the number of readers among users in countries including Canada, the UK and Australia. “
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