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%
Live Audio on the Internet
There were over 106,157 unique live audio streams on LDS.org. This is a 22% decrease from April 2009.
Downloadable Audio & Video on the Internet
Downloadable conference materials are available in multiple formats (text, audio, video) and languages at generalconference.lds.org.
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I imagine that the total might have been greater but many people (including myself) couldn’t get a working video feed or were bumped off.
Larry, J. Stapley’s experience aside, I wanted to offer my thanks for a more stable Conference video player.
The internet was plan B which we had to rely on because of a broken satellite antenna. The streamed video had fantastic clarity and no compression artifacts in the audio.
Well done!
I’d have used the online stream if BYU-TV hadn’t been an option (I was ready to use that as plan B if the cable went out or something).
The audio stream was more robust for me several years ago, but became unusable with my modem connection, probably because of the choice to provide a 32K hi-fi sound instead of something closer to AM radio quality. This problem was a major factor in my choice to get high speed fiber optic internet service a couple years back, and once I had that, the video stream was accessible to me and the audio stream was not needed. If we really want Conference to reach everywhere, there should be a more robust, lower fidelity sound stream available.
Speaking of plan B, the video stream did fail for me during one of the Sunday sessions, but the audio stream still worked.
We always use the Video Feed. Who does the Church host with for this (Or does the Church have a dedicated datacenter?)? Do you all burst to cloud computing when you need to up your viewership for conference, or are you maintaining a large army of servers throughout the year?