Britney’s Bomb Causes MTV Traffic Explosion
While it was supposed to be Britney Spears’ comeback performance, MTV.com was the big winner after the falling star’s abysmal performance at the channel’s annual Video Music Awards.
The music site saw its traffic surge to record numbers as people visited to watch the trainwreck in action. MTV.com logged 2.6 million visitors on Sunday (remember the awards were held at night, so that wasn’t even a full day), making it the site’s highest-trafficked day ever. As of 3:30 PM ET on Monday, MTV.com had delivered 7 million streams.
The lesson here: Online video can breathe life into TV failures — as long as they’re spectacular ones.
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[...] VMAs the night before. Yes, I got sucked in. I watched the video. Apparently, me and everyone else. According to NewTeeVee, 2.6 million people tuned into mtv.com to watch Britney’s train wreck, making it the biggest [...]
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[...] bring in more than 23 million unique visitors to the site. (This news, following MTV.com’s record-smashing weekend, makes it a good time to be Big Media.) [...]
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[...] is ironic, the Britney bomb has worked out for everyone except Britney. There is justice in this world after [...]
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[...] Finally in entertainment, A Socialite’s Life was the most polite about Britney Spears’ disastrous dance appearance at the VMA Awards: She could have given more. Others were predictably less kind, with Pretty Much Amazing running the video and catty comments about hair extenders, and Defamer stacking critics’ critiques to the ceiling. The big winner? MTV.com which got whooping 2.6 million visitors to watch the trainwreck in action. [...]
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[...] next video by remixing old footage (wonder if they’ll include video from this year’s MTV Awards). [...]
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[...] good chunk of that traffic was driven by the morbidly-curious taking in Britney’s disastrous performance at the VMAs, but other women who weren’t lip-syncing badly and forgetting their choreography [...]
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[...] good chunk of that traffic was driven by the morbidly-curious taking in Britney’s disastrous performance at the VMAs, but other women who weren’t lip-syncing badly and forgetting their choreography [...]
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[...] in one format or location first. MTV, for example, successfully employed a similar tactic with the highly popular video of Britney Spears’ spellbindingly lackluster performance at the VMAs last year. But as [...]
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[...] Goes for Viral Gold With Iron Man After seeing Britney’s comeback fiasco turn into server-melting gold, MTV intentionally created a viral clip for its Movie Awards last night, with surprisingly funny [...]
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[...] Spears’ career and gave birth to Chris Crocker’s — and MTV benefited big time by exclusively hosting the Gimme More video. So when MTV announced that Britney Spears would once again be returning to open the show, it [...]
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[...] exclusive distribution of Britney’s train wreck of a performance at the Video Music Awards netted MTV 7 million visitors over the next two [...]
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[...] Weekly do the talking and who many thought would never recover from the embarrassing incidents like the 2007 MTV VMAs. It’s nearly 2009 now, and New Britney is in full bloom. (For the purposes of this argument, [...]
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[...] US Weekly do the talking and who many thought would never recover from embarrassing incidents like the 2007 MTV VMAs. It’s nearly 2009 now, and New Britney is in full bloom. (For the purposes of this argument, [...]
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[...] glitzy freak fests. For instance, it got Britney Spears, at the height of her meltdown in 2007, to perform at the VMAs, and Sunday it enabled a skimpily dressed Sasha Baron Cohen to descend from the ceiling onto [...]
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