Live Access to LDS General Conference

by Larry Richman (10/19/2009 12:48 am)

You may be interested in the following statistics from the October 2009 general conference.

Live Video on the Internet

Languages: Live video streaming was provided in English, Spanish, Portuguese, American Sign Language, and French at broadcast.lds.org.

Usage: There were 587,870 unique live video streams across KBYU.tv, KSL.com, and the two video options on LDS.org during the 4 general conference sessions. This is a 16% increase from April 2009. The statistics on the new video player on LDS.org represent an increase of 15% from April 2009. LDS.org provided 82% of the total video usage.

Note: Unique views are defined as the number of individual devices (computers, phones, etc.) that visit the video players. Uniques are tracked for each session, but not across sessions. An individual who watched two sessions would be counted twice in the overall unique number, but only once for each session they watched. Also note, that there may be 2 or more individuals viewing at each computer.

Statistics Across Viewing Options and Languages

Unique views on new video player on LDS.org: 364,670 (62% of overall). English 86%, Spanish 10%, Portuguese 3%, ASL 1%.
Unique views on windows media player on LDS.org: 115,656 (20% of overall). English 78%, Spanish 15%, Portuguese 4%, ASL 2%, French 1%.
Unique views on KBYU.tv: 90,012 (15% of overall). English N/A (81% in April ‘09), Spanish N/A (14% in April ‘09), Portuguese N/A ( 5% in April ‘09).
Unique views on English KSL.com: 17,532 (3% of overall). English 100%