Brad Hunstable, Founder
Today proved to be historic not only for the inauguration of our 44th president, but also because it was an amazing day for Ustream!
It was the biggest day Ustream has seen since the Election on Nov. 4, surpassing our record of one million streams for one event. What’s more, Ustream had hundreds of separate inauguration-related streams. Our streams were conversational and niche, with hosted professional streams as well as user-generated broadcasts. We had our personal best today, so why not brag alittle?
Some highlights:
- Ustream powered more than an estimated 3.8 million streams today
- 400,000 concurrent people were watching Inauguration events at any given moment during the speech and swearing in.
- Tens of thousands watched live on the iPhone
If you watched a Ustream live stream today, please vote for us in this poll!
http://mashable.com/2009/01/20/inauguration-coverage
Thousands of people watched the inauguration from our newly-released viewing app. You can download it here:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=301520250&mt=8
Here are a few photos of Ustreamers watching today’s events unfold. Enjoy!
January 20th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Congrats Ustream! definately a great day to remember both for the new president taking office officially, and for ustream’s record breaking..
woooooot!
January 20th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
Awesome, Brad. Great day. Way to bring live events to life and flatten the world. Very Obama-esqe. Cheers! silva
January 20th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Congratulations, truly impressive. I watched the whole thing from work and it was crystal clear. Way to go G & S !
January 20th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Awesome Job Ustream! U guys have been great with streams, along with the convenient inauguration stream! And then there is the records that were broken. AWESOME!!!!
January 20th, 2009 at 6:42 pm
Brad and Team.
Very nice indeed!
January 20th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Very cool! I just downloaded the iphone app.
January 21st, 2009 at 9:18 am
that is an awesome achievements, congratulations!!!
January 21st, 2009 at 11:16 am
A great day indeed. well done ustream.tv
cheers !!! to the future.
good riddance george douche’
January 21st, 2009 at 11:54 am
[...] Wire has published interesting numbers for live viewing of the inauguration at Ustream (read the Ustream blog post) and via [...]
January 21st, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Thanks to the Ustream team for the iPhone app–we had a whole bunch of new users come to our show JUST because they were using the app. Great job, Ustream and keep on refining that app!
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:39 am
Great app, from what I can tell. Is it just a viewing application? Any plans for a publishing app? Perhaps on another platform, say, Windows Mobile? I’d love to ditch Qik for an authentic uStream.tv utility!
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:21 am
[...] Twitter reported their largest spike, over five times anything previously on the service; and Ustream reported over 400,000 viewers watching streams from the [...]
January 23rd, 2009 at 1:04 am
[...] Twitter reported their largest spike, over five times anything previously on the service; and Ustream reported over 400,000 viewers watching streams from the [...]
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:27 pm
[...] Stream (they had 400,000 almost a half a million people watching the 2009 inauguration from various video streams) • For a direct comparison of the video streaming and virtual conferencing with Mogulus vs. [...]
January 24th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
[...] piece on TechCrunch that went counter to many other stories on the day. While UStream were busy patting themselves on the back, others were noticing it wasn’t all that smooth. Sure the numbers sound good, I am [...]
January 27th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Brad – we’ve all come a long way and i cannot wait to see what else is in store. I’d go to war with you anyday, my man.
Frank
August 29th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
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