International traffic to live video streams surged 2750 percent

On U.S. Election Day, traffic to the international edition of CNN.com increased 789 percent on Wednesday November 5 as compared to the same day the previous week. (Wednesday October 29) with live video streams on CNN.com Live, the Internet's only multi-stream, live video news service skyrocketing 2750 percent.

Videos served to audiences were up 571 percent compared to last Wednesday as users clicked on demand.

Regionally in Asia Pacific, week on week traffic from South Korea to the international edition of CNN.com already increased 1459 percent as compared to last week.   From Australia a weekly surge of 766 percent was seen and from Hong Kong, a 584 percent. 

Around the world, week on week traffic increase to the international edition of CNN.com were also witnessed from UK (348 percent); France (661 percent); Germany (524 percent); Netherlands (440 percent); South Africa (388 percent); Sweden (493 percent) among others.

At the same time, CNN.com's 'In The Field' blog had more than a million views over the 24 hours (from midnight on Tuesday November 4 to midday November 5) with more than 4,000 comments.  The majority of the views were to a single post by Christiane Amanpour, http://inthefield.blogs.cnn.com/2008/11/04/this-election-will-change-the-world saying that the election is going to change the world.

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