America Online Continues to Rock Fans Around the World with On Demand Coverage of Historic Live 8 Concerts.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- America Online See AOL. , Inc.:
More than 25 Million On Demand Streams In a Week; Pink Floyd,
Madonna, U2 and Green Day Among the Top Artists
aolmusic.com Live 8 Extended Through September 5
America Online today announced that in the week following the historic Live 8 event, more than 8.5 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. to aolmusic.com requested a record breaking more than 25 million on-demand plays of the performances and concert broadcasts*. AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. also announced that the Live 8 on demand package - featuring hundreds of rare live performances from top artists - has been extended by three weeks and will now be available on www.aolmusic.com through September 5. Pink Floyd  This article includes inline links to audio files. If you have trouble playing the files, see Wikipedia Media help. , which reunited for the first time in more than 20 years
for the event, has garnered the most on-demand plays, followed by
Madonna, U2 and Green Day as the most requested artists. Among the most
popular individual performances are Paul McCartney's and U2's
rendition of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts lonely heartsAdjective of or for people seeking a congenial companion or marriage partner: lonely hearts ads lonely hearts adj lonely hearts ad → Club Band" - which opened the London show - and the Coldplay and Richard Ashcroft Richard Paul Ashcroft (born September 11 1971 in Billinge Maternity Hospital, Billinge Higher End, Lancashire) is an English singer-songwriter. He is the lead singer of The Verve, an English rock band that he helped form in 1989. performance of the Verve hit "Bittersweet bittersweet, name for two unrelated plants, belonging to different families, both fall-fruiting woody vines sometimes cultivated for their decorative scarlet berries. Symphony." Meanwhile, the term "Live 8" reached the No. 1 spot on AOL's newly launched Video Search product, with Pink Floyd and Madonna coming in as the most searched for artists. On July 2, more than 150 artists performed at 10 concerts around the world to raise awareness for global poverty just days before the recent G8 Summit. AOL's exclusive live coverage of Live 8 drew 5 million visitors from 178 countries around the world, including those as far flung as Nepal, Somalia and Greenland. "There's no doubt that the success our live coverage of the Live 8 events marked a pivotal moment in the perception of the web as a medium that can capture the attention of a mainstream audience," said Jim Bankoff, Executive Vice President of Programming and Production for America Online. "What we are now seeing with our on demand package is the ability to sustain an event over a period of time. People can come back to see what they want, when they want, as often as they want and we expect that to continue throughout the summer." AOL(R) Music's Live 8 On Demand package includes complete streams of the Live 8 concerts from London, Philadelphia, Toronto, Paris, Rome and Berlin, plus the global feed. Fans can also choose from the hundreds of songs performed to watch any individual artist and their performances on demand. In addition, the site includes special Live 8 blogs from the concerts with more than 14,000 posts to date. And it includes photo galleries from each concert, news reports, and the ability for fans to learn more about the "Make Poverty History" campaign. Visitors to AOL Music's Live 8 On Demand experience can see any artist, any song from any city at any time at www.aolmusic.com. Fans can also search for artists or individual performances using AOL's new Video Search www.aolsearch.com. AOL Music is the leading online destination for music, reaching more than 25.9 million music fans a month** through a rich array of programming, products and services that make it easy to discover, experience, listen to and buy music online. * internal reports from July 4 - July 12, 2005 ** comScore Media Metrix, June 2005 About America Online, Inc. America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Time Warner Inc. Based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. |
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