Comments on: Foo Fighters Draw 440,000 Live Streams to Web-Only Show

By: Vultures Culture

Vultures Culture — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:53:04 +0000

It's true that the Foo Fighters weren't as advertised as U2, but than again, the campaign for U2 is a true state of the art process, it accumulates interest from areas you would never expect it from

By: digitalinfant

digitalinfant — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:51:33 +0000

Royally embarrassing, the Clare Bonnell comment about 1-88 million was actually from me, and not Clare Bonnell. I guess that's what you get for fixing your mother's blog (Wordpress automatically signed me in as her to comment on this blog). The channel view numbers about 88 million are still true though!

By: clarebonnell

clarebonnell — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:43:01 +0000

I took a before and after screen shot of the channel views for the U2 gig at 11:30pm when the pre-concert started for U2 and after at 9:30am the next morning. From what I saw, channel views when from just over 1 million to 88 million.

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:44:10 +0000

@frank - That's definitely true.

By: frank

frank — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:59:18 +0000

with all fairness, foo fighters werent as well adverdised as U2 was

By: Music Ally | Blog Archive » Foo Fighters notched up 440k streams for live webcast

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:45:29 +0000

[...] Friday, the Foo Fighters webcast a gig from their own studio using the Livestream service. Figures released show that 440,000 total live streams were racked up on the night from more than 150,000 viewers [...]