Wednesday, September 10, 2008

300,000 Users Watch US Open Final Online on CBSSports.com

CBSSports.com generated about 300,000 unique users for Monday's live online coverage of the U.S. Open men's tennis final between Roger Federer and Andy Murray. Federer's win, which marked the first Monday men's final at the U.S. Open since '87 after heavy weekend rains, also amounted to 243,000 hours of video consumed from that audience during that match for an average of 49 minutes per user . USOpen.org received more than 39 million total visits during the tournament, up 33% over last year, and drew more than 9 million unique visitors from more than 200 countries, an increase of 26% over last year. The site also drew more than 222 million page views for the first time.
(Eric Fisher, SportsBusiness Journal)

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