Youtube Video offers interesting view behind social media and Thunder Bay Flood

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Kakabeka Falls May 25 2012
Kakabeka Falls May 25 2012 as captured by Damien Gilbert

THUNDER BAY – Tech Now – Often it is difficult to gather information on the popularity of web sites. Unlike the newspaper industry where there are set numbers of newspapers published, the world of online news is harder to gauge in terms of popularity. Local video-grapher Damien Gilbert offers an interesting perspective of how views on a Youtube video he shot of high water conditions around Thunder Bay was seen.

Here is the video:

Here are the Youtube Statistics:

Total views: 12,526

Ratings: 47 Comments: 22 Favorites: 12
Likes: 46
Dislikes: 1

Significant discovery events

Date Event Views
A
05/28/12 First embedded on


facebook.com

2,698
B
05/28/12 First embedded on


netnewsledger.com

2,693
C
05/28/12 First view from a mobile device

2,281
D
05/28/12 First referral from


facebook.com

957
E
05/28/12 First referral from YouTube search


thunder bay flood

387
F
05/28/12 First referral from related video


Kakabeka Falls – Canada

336
G
05/28/12 First embedded on


tbnewswatch.com

217
H
05/28/12 First referral from related video


Thunder Bay Flood – Neebing River at Edward St May 28 2012

193
I
05/28/12 First referral from related video

140
J
05/28/12 First referral from related video


Thunder Bay Flood. May 28th 2012

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Audiences

This video is most popular with:

Gender Age
Female 45-54
Male 45-54
Female 55-64

Over the course of the past week, interest in online news and information in Northern Ontario has spiked. On NetNewsledger.com over the week there have been over 60,000 people visiting the website, they have viewed an average of 4.04 pages. Over 52,000 of those visitors have been unique visitors to the site.

During the busiest time frames, Brett our web-tech shares that the server CPU spiked at 254% but still kept chugging along – On Monday at times the site was slower to load than usual, but we were able to handle all of the traffic. Part of that was due to a shift in our hosting service, and an upgrade from a Virtual Dedicated Server to a Dedicated Server. Our team is convinced had we not done that in mid-May that it would have been very likely we would have see service interruptions on the site on Monday.

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James Murray
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