YouTube Launches New Elections Hub for Online Political Coverage
By Rob Scott
August 23, 2012
August 23, 2012
- YouTube has launched a new Elections Hub that will include content from ABC News, Univision, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Al-Jazeera English, BuzzFeed and others.
- The hub plans to provide live footage of the Republican and Democratic national conventions in addition to the first live online streaming of the presidential and vice presidential debates.
- “We’ve seen there is a huge demand for political news on YouTube,” says Olivia Ma, YouTube’s news and politics manager.
- Ma notes that the campaigns of President Obama and challenger Mitt Romney have uploaded more than 600 videos since April 2011. She says the campaign videos, and others that reference the two candidates, have been viewed nearly 2 billion times.
- “With Election Hub, viewers will select the coverage they want to follow from a menu of options. Once they’ve made a choice, they’ll be able to watch live and on-demand campaign coverage — and participate in discussions,” reports the Los Angeles Times.
- According to a Pew Research Center report, the number of people who go online to access political news has almost tripled since 2000 — “even though that growth has leveled off in the current election season because of a lack of interest among the younger users who are traditionally the most avid consumers of Internet news,” notes the article.
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Facebook is also bringing election coverage from CNN: “Facebook, CNN launch ‘I’m Voting’ app to add more politics to your News Feed”
http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/22/facebook-cnn-launch-im-voting-app-to-add-more-politics-to-your-news-feed/
Facebook is also bringing election coverage from CNN: “Facebook, CNN launch ‘I’m Voting’ app to add more politics to your News Feed”
http://venturebeat.com/2012/08/22/facebook-cnn-launch-im-voting-app-to-add-more-politics-to-your-news-feed/
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