Samsung Galaxy Live Stream Draws Huge Numbers

By Bern Rexer

Samsung broadcast their new Galaxy phone product launch on YouTube and other live streaming services today and the event resulted in over 1 half million concurrent viewers and over ten thousand new subscribers to their YouTube channel. Samsung YouTube Channel.

It is estimated that there were over 1 million visitors to the many live streams broadcast on the internet for the event.

Pre Event Subscriptions

Post Event Subscriptions

The live stream began around 7:15pm EDT and lasted about 1 hour. It was broadcast from New York City.

There was over 460K concurrent viewers on the YouTube channel and over 75K concurrent viewers on CNET broadcast from Livestream.com. Other YouTube channels broadcast the event and Leo LaPort's TWiT TV covered it on Ustream averaging about 2500 concurrent connections.

The same live event URL was available as an archive within an hour after conclusion on Samsungs YouTube channel.

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UPDATE:
24 hours post event Samsung's YouTube channel shows almost 10% increase at 270K subscribers.