Record On Ustream – A Day To Remember

Posted on January 20, 2009 by 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!

About Brad Hunstable, Founder

Brad Hunstable is a serial entrepreneur and founder of Ustream.TV. Prior to founding Ustream, Mr. Hunstable worked at Hillwood Development, a Ross Perot Company overseeing the development of master planned communities. Brad also completed five years of active duty in the United States Army, serving in various capacities around the world. Mr. Hunstable is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and holds a MBA in finance from The Ohio State University.
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17 Responses to Record On Ustream – A Day To Remember

  1. sc00tz says:
    January 20, 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!

  2. Mark Silva says:
    January 20, 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

  3. Admiring Fan says:
    January 20, 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 !

  4. sman591 says:
    January 20, 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!!!!

  5. Jeff Norris says:
    January 20, 2009 at 6:42 pm

    Brad and Team.

    Very nice indeed!

  6. Acappella says:
    January 20, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    Very cool! I just downloaded the iphone app.

  7. mysiraylon says:
    January 21, 2009 at 9:18 am

    that is an awesome achievements, congratulations!!!

  8. audiomurphy says:
    January 21, 2009 at 11:16 am

    A great day indeed. well done ustream.tv

    cheers !!! to the future.

    good riddance george douche’

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  10. The Tuesday Night Tanked Show says:
    January 21, 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!

  11. Andrew says:
    January 22, 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!

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  16. Frankie Val says:
    January 27, 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

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