CNN Digital No. 1 in Online News for 22 Months and Mobile News for 41 Months

In June, the oil spill disaster in the Gulf brought enormous traffic to CNN.com, including the most live video plays in 2010. The site served 13 million live video streams in June, a 214% increase over the prior 6-month average, due in large part to a continuous live stream from an underwater camera in the Gulf. In addition to video, CNN.com's oil spill coverage generated more than 37 million page views, and users have submitted nearly 3,000 iReports with more than 200 vetted for use on CNN in June.

Traffic

CNN Digital remained No. 1 among ALL Global News & Current Event sites in several key metrics, beating sites such as MSNBC Digital, Yahoo! News and Fox News Digital.

• No. 1 in Total Usage Minutes: 850 million minutes, 303 million more than No. 2 MSNBC Digital and 333 million more than No. 3 Yahoo! News.
• No. 1 in Time Per Person: 23.4 minutes, the highest time spent among the top 20 News and Information sites. (Source: Nielsen Online Netview, June-10).
• No. 1 in Page Views: 1.3 billion page views, 92% ahead of No. 2 MSNBC Digital and 100% more than No. 3 Yahoo! News. (Source: Nielsen Online Netview, June-10).

No. 1 in Audience among all TV News Sites: When compared to its TV News competition, CNN Digital topped them all in terms of unique audience. With 36.3 million unique visitors in June, CNN Digital's audience was 15% larger than MSNBC Digital (31.6 million); 130% larger than Fox News Digital (15.8 million); 204% larger than ABC News Digital (11.9 million) and 285% larger than CBS Digital (9.4 million).

Video

CNN Digital is No. 1 among ALL News and Information Properties in video for June.

• No. 1 in Video Streams: 118 million stream, beating No. 2 MSNBC Digital by 3 million streams and No. 3 Yahoo! News by 47 million streams. CNN Digital increased video streams 14% over last June. (Source: Nielsen VideoCensus, StreamCensus Global, June 2010.)
• No. 1 in Time Spent Watching Video: 11.1 minutes, more than any other property in the Top 20 of the News and Information category based on reach. (Source: Nielsen Online VideoCensus, June 2010.)  

Mobile

CNN Digital is No. 1 in Mobile in news and current events for the 41st consecutive month.

With 14.5 million unique visitors to its mobile site in May, an increase of 26% over last May, CNN Digital beat the nearest competitor, Fox News Digital, by 69%. (Source: Nielsen Mobile MediaView – May 2010)

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In June, CNN iReport received submissions from passionate users about two important assignments; first-person perspectives on the oil spill in the Gulf and the 2010 World Cup. Users submitted nearly 3,000 iReports related to the Oil Spill Disaster and World Cup fans submitted 1,382 submissions related to the World Cup with 349 vetted for use on CNN in June.

South Africa 2010: Twitter Buzz generated 754,000 page views since its launch on June 10. (Omniture, June 10 – July 15, 2010). CNN.com curated more than 11 million tweets related to the World Cup that were represented visually through photos; the more a topic was discussed, the larger its image appeared in the interactive. At its peak, the interactive processed more than 13,000 tweets a minute during the U.S. / England game on June 12. (CNN Internal server logs of proprietary Twitter data feed)

Also in June, CNN.com launched the newly redesigned Tech Section in conjunction with New York Internet Week. On June 7, CNN Tech generated 2.2 million page views, more than a 122% increase over the prior 6-month daily average. (Source: Omniture SiteCatalyst, June 2010.)

CNN's Blog Network received 84 million page views in June, a 10% increase over May. (Source: Omniture SiteCatalyst, June 2010.) On June 18, CNN launched Eatocracy, a blog created to feed the minds, hearts and stomachs of food fanatics across the world. During its launch week, Eatocracy received more than 1 million page views each day, placing it among the top 5 most-trafficked blogs on CNN.com for that week.