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HOW EGYPT PROTESTS CREATED RECORD INCREASES IN ONLINE TRAFFIC FOR TOP SITES ON ARAB NEWS
| Rank | Website | Traffic increase details |
| 1. | Al-Jazeera’s | •Al-Jazeera’s live video coverage of the unrest in Egypt is drawing big crowds online: The Qatar-based TV network saw its web traffic increase by a record 2,500 percent when it reported about the violent clashes between demonstrators and police on Friday, January 28. |
| •The network is streaming its entire English-language TV feed online, and this live stream has been even more popular than the site itself. It clocked some 26 million minutes of live video streaming within twelve hours night of January 28. More than 50 percent of that traffic has been coming from the U.S. | ||
| 2. | CNN.com | •For the seven days ending Thursday, February 3, total global video views onCNN.com increased by more than 61% over the prior 4-week average.• On February 2 alone usage spiked 97% over the prior 4-Wednesday average to 6.3 million video views. |
| • With an average of more than 320,000 daily video starts since last Friday, total global live video usage on CNN.com increased by 500% over the prior 4-week, same-day average. | ||
| • On Wednesday, February 2, live video usage spiked to 600,000 live views, a 540% gain over the prior 4-week average. | ||
| 3. | BBC Arabic | •Reported 1.3 million unique page views in the week starting Jan. 24. This was the highest weekly reach BBC Arabic ever measured, more than twice as high as the average week in December, despite the fact that the majority of its audience in Egypt, its biggest market, could not reach the website because of Internet restrictions that had just been introduced by the Egyptian government. |
Sources :
-http://www.newsonnews.net/cnn/7351-cnn-online-recieves-traffic-boost-as-egypt-political-uprising-continues.html
- http://gigaom.com/video/al-jazeera-traffic-skyrockets-due-to-egyptian-unrest/
- http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/company-news/will-al-jazeera-capitalize-on-its-newfound-popularity/19824028/
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Al Jazeera Is King Of Egypt Protests Story, Has Its Hour Come?
I was not an Al Jazeera fan, but its coverage of the Egyptian protests has turned me completely. Neither CNN nor BBC has been to touch Al Jazeera; the depth of analysis its reporters (and guests) have brought to the coverage, or the penetrating questions of its anchors.
Al Jazeera’s excellence on the Egyptian story has been widely acknowledged. It has been reported that its viewership has skyrocketed. But the most stunning statistic is what happened to its website. The people rushing to read about the Egyptian protests grew its site traffic by a mind-boggling 2,500 per cent!
I think Al Jazeera moment’s as the undisputed “Arab news voice” might finally be here.
Elsewhere, as the rest of the western media that used to shape the worldview of events shut down and close their foreign bureaus, the Chinese News Agency Xinhua and the likes of Al Jazeera are expanding. Tony Burman, head of North American strategies for Al Jazeera English, was quoted telling the news site Huffingtonpost that Al Jazeera now has more bureaus in Latin America, the USA’s backyard, than CNN and BBC.
And at the end of last year, Xinhua announced plans to expand its newsgathering operation from 120 to 200 overseas bureaus and as many as 6,000 journalists abroad. In the next few years, Xinhua, not Reuters, AFP or AP might well be providing most of the world’s wire copy.
If Al Jazeera firmly establishes itself as the go-to channel on the Middle East, it will leave Africa as the only continent with a global network storyteller.
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