Cenk Uygur
@TheYoungTurks·6.5M subscribers·72.8K videos
TYT SMASHES Election Night Records
Posted
November 11, 2016
Views
153,799
Likes
5,961
Comments
1,551
Engagement
4.88%
November 11, 2016
153,799
5,961
1,551
4.88%
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2:56Now Playing4.5 million people watched us on election night. Fascists may be taking over the country (for now), but TYT is taking over the media. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"On November 8th, the United States turned its eyes to the results of the 2016 presidential election, and one place where its citizens tuned in for their political coverage was The Young Turks. The progressive-leaning news channel had a big night; across three separate live streams — one each on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter — it drew more than 4.5 million total hits, smashing its own viewership record.
The bulk of The Young Turks’ viewership came on YouTube, where its hosts, including Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian, led a 12-hour broadcast that broke down the election results. At its peak viewership, The Young Turks’ YouTube stream counted 132,979 concurrent viewers. While that is a smaller figure compared to what YouTube drew during the three presidential debates, it is the biggest audience ever for a Young Turks stream, eclipsing the 72,635 viewers the news channel drew for its March 2016 interview with progressive presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. The viewers who tuned into The Young Turks stuck around, too, with the average watch time coming in just under 20 minutes per user.
The Young Turks touted itself as the only news outlet to live stream its election night coverage across the three major platforms where that coverage was predominantly available, and its feeds on Facebook and Twitter pulled in big numbers as well. On Facebook, it scored 1.2 million views; on Twitter, it added 104,398 more.
Given its political leanings, The Young Turks can’t have been happy with the outcome of last night’s election, but at the very least, Ugyur and Kasparian’s outlet has established itself as one of the primary places where YouTube viewers turn for political commentary. Over the next four years, there will be plenty of opportunities to continue to build that growing audience.”*
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Young Turk (n), 1. Young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party. 2. Young person who rebels against authority or societal expectations. (American Heritage Dictionary)
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