In addition to eye-popping viewership on our YouTube channel, the site also ended the year with over 3.5 million pageviews.

NewscastStudio posts another record year on YouTube

There were an average of 130,000 monthly global visitors, up 11% year over year.

The site also saw a boost of 13% in user sessions and 12% growth in new users.

Our email newsletters had an average 22% open rate—our gallery alert emails led the way with a 38% average open rate, well above what most consider typical for email marketing.

We’ve also grown to over 28,500 follows across all of our social media platforms.

As the industry prepares for a mid-term election year and continuing uncertainty, NewscastStudio is always a great way for your company to reach audiences who buy broadcast products and services. You can request our media kit and editorial calendar online to learn more about how to get started as a NewscastStudio partner.

Our fully digital format and distributed content generation has allowed us to continue to run as normal, providing key industry news and updates during the coronavirus pandemic even as numerous industry events faced cancellations, postponements or alternative settings throughout the past two years or so.

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Our ever-popular YouTube channel garnered 4.9 million views total over 58,700 hours of watch time (that’s over 2,445 days if you’re keeping track).

We gained 6,600 subscribers over last year.

Some of our most popular clips continued to be our “supercuts” and “minicuts” of broadcasts and newscasts that introduced new graphics and sets, which typically include footage from one or more production edited together to showcase all of the new elements.

We’ve also added original content, including our “Broadcast Exchange” series that features interviews with industry pros.

NewscastStudio is also one of the leading channels for those working in the broadcast industry, reaching thousands of people working in newsrooms, production teams, stations and networks around the globe every week. Our YouTube Channel outperforms most other trade media’s presence significantly. 

If you’re not following NewscastStudio yet, click here and then confirm on the next screen.

Coming in 2022, look for more original content and drool-worthy compilations of some of the best video in our extensive archives. 

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The Arti AR platform provides broadcast-quality augmented reality graphics in an easy-to-use and -deploy system that works entirely in the cloud. 

The solution has already appeared on broadcasters such as the BBC, which used it for election night coverage. 

Through the Arti AR platform, any device or output is capable of augmented reality production—from a phone to a Zoom meeting—with virtual 2D and 3D objects from charts and data to logos and graphics. 

If your business or organization needs an affordable and effective way to reach broadcast production and creative professionals, consider NewscastStudio.

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Zero Density’s premiere offering, the Reality Engine, has become a favorite amongst broadcasters, providing hyper-realistic rendering and compositing in Unreal Engine. 

Along with Reality Engine, Zero Density also offers Reality Keyer, an image-based keyer that works on GPU, along with creation and workflow management tools Reality Editor, Reality Control and Reality Hub. 

The Reality Engine powers broadcasters’ virtual reality studios and augmented reality production in over 38 countries including Fox Sports’ “NASCAR RaceHub,” The Weather Channel’s mixed reality studio, and Sky News Arabia’s virtual studio. 

If your business or organization needs an affordable and effective way to reach broadcast production and creative professionals, consider NewscastStudio.

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1. ABC’s decision to rebrand its 1 p.m. eastern hour — again
2. How the networks covered Kobe Bryant’s death Jan. 27 and 28, 2020
3. Coverage of how CBS New York had its L.A. sister station produce its local newscast due to a coronavirus outbreak in its studio complex
4. NBC’s odd “202ONE” Olympics logo design for the postponed games
5. How “Wheel of Fortune” adapted to production during coronavirus
6. “The Tonight Show” temporarily moves to Megyn Kelly’s former studio due to coronavirus concerns
7. “ABC World News Tonight” moves into Studio TV3 proper
8. Telemundo’s augmented reality for election coverage
9. The Weather Channel’s decision to use “Covidcane” branding
10. WJW’s daily tongue in cheek reminder of what day it is amidst the height of COVID-19 lockdowns
11. ABC “Good Morning America” new promo
12. CBS News’ new election branding
13. NBC News’ election HQ in Studio 1A
14. Fox’s 2020 Super Bowl graphics package design
15. How “Live! with Kelly and Ryan” made their hosts look closer than they really were
16. ABC moves into new studio for Super Tuesday
17. A look at MSNBC’s “Velshi” production values
18. Tips for setting up home TV studios during a pandemic
19. How court shows are adapting production to coronavirus
20. A new open for “NBC Nightly News”

Perhaps not surprisingly, 40% of these stories related directly to the coronavirus pandemic and its effect on TV news (not counting the story on NBC 2021 Olympics logo). 

Election coverage also dominated our readers’ interest in 2020, though it’s worth noting how Kobe Bryant’s death was one of the most popular stories in 2020 but quickly became overshadowed, in terms of combined read counts, by COVID-19 related coverage.

The list also includes some more “general” TV industry news headlines — such as “Nightly” getting a new open (additional coverage of the on air changes for that broadcast when it returned to the studio after the election just barely missed making the top 20 cutoff).

In terms of broader topics, here’s a rough list that illustrates, by page views, the topics that sparked the most interest among our readers in 2020:

• Augmented reality (this topic typically grows each year and this year marked a noticeable uptick) 
• Primaries, Super Tuesday and both the democratic and presidential debates (not including election night coverage, which already ranked high)
• Video walls and other LED installations (again, this has been a rising trend over the years)
• Overseas elections
• Broadcast design, engineering and production outside the U.S.
• Branding and logo design

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The channel, which features a myriad of clips related to TV news and broadcast design, now has racked up more than 8 million views since launch.

That equates to over 117,000 hours of watch time (that’s the equivalent to over 13 years!). 

Our top video, of ABC News correspondent Will Reeve caught on air not wearing long pants, is our most watched video — with over 921,000 views as of this writing.

All of our top six most watched videos have over 100,000 lifetime views, with our top 10 all coming in at at least 59,000 views.

NewscastStudio has significantly invested in the use of video to accompany reporting on both our main site as well as our sister site, TVNewsMix, over the past few years.

The channel regularly features aircheck clips showcasing exemplar broadcast design, augmented reality and more, as well as the headline teases and opens for major networks during historic periods, ultimately creating a valuable archive of how TV news covered key events (including the historic coronavirus pandemic and 2020 election) at the time.

All of this comes as we near the end of 2020, which is shaping up to be another record year of page views on the NewscastStudio site proper. 

Not surprisingly, election day (Nov. 3, 2020) saw the most traffic so far in November 2020 and the month as a whole appears on track to beat May 2019 as the busiest month in our history. 

Video content added to YouTube appears to have contributed heavily to pushing past the 10,000 subscriber mark.

In addition to YouTube, NewscastStudio also recently launched a Giphy channel that regularly features eye catching animated GIFs of broadcast design elements.

As always, thanks to everyone who reads and watches our content.

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We have resolved the issue on our end and, starting Aug. 17, 2020, began uploading videos in a format that improves the quality of videos.

We apologize for this issue.

The issue was unrelated to YouTube’s pandemic practice of defaulting videos to lower quality, though to view the full quality videos, you may need to manually adjust the quality in the player.

NewscastStudio’s YouTube channel has, as of this writing, over 8,100 subscribers and has registered over 4,000 hours of view time in the past month.

All told, NewscastStudio’s videos on YouTube have been watched over 6.8 million times for a combined total of over 97,300 hours.

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• We registered a record-breaking 3.9 million page views in 2019, a 24% growth over 2018. We’ve grown our traffic every year we’ve been online.
• We welcomed 24% new visitors in 2019 over 2018 and increased our user sessions by 19%.
• Viewers watched over 29,000 hours (that’s over 3 years) worth of videos on the NewscastStudio YouTube channel (by the way, if you’re a fan of watching our videos, you might be interested that we’ve also made a change that skips the opening vanity card when viewing embedded clips from within our own stories).
• The many changes at CBS News meant our coverage of the network topped our “most read” lists, including a story about the “nameless” “CBS Evening News” after Jeff Glor was pushed out, a preview on the “CBS Evening News” studio in Washington, D.C., and the graphics redesign at “CBS This Morning.”
• Other top stories included the new “Today” graphics look, CNN’s first studio debut from Hudson Yards and, despite being two years old, our post on common TV news fonts remained popular as well as a 2019 story on Facebook’s new logo design and its affect on broadcasters.
• Our main pages on set design, graphics, broadcast industry news and augmented reality also ranked in the top page views. 
• We launched the Broadcast Production Design Awards, an expansion of our popular Set of the Year competition, and are planning enhancements and updates to the program in 2020.
• NewscastStudio also had a few seconds of fame in 2019 — with one of our stories getting mentioned on ABC News’ “Strahan & Sara” (which is now known as “GMA 3: Strahan, Sara and Keke”).
• We continued the way of offering exclusive and “first on NewscastStudio” reporting, including question and answer sessions with top industry names about high profile projects. 
• We were also the first to report on NBC owned stations’ new font, the PBS Newshour Politico presidential debate stage design and more.

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Our coverage of the massive shakeup at CBS News that included ousting Jeff Glor as anchor of “CBS Evening News” broke our previous record by over 65%.

Readers also flocked to NewscastStudio to read about the changes on CBS’s other major broadcast, “CBS This Morning.”

In addition, NewscastStudio’s ongoing coverage as the changes at CBS rolled out has continued to deliver extremely high traffic over the past few weeks.

NewscastStudio also proved a valuable resource to TV industry readers looking to learn more about how Facebook’s new logo design and changes they will need to make.

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Here’s a look at some highlights from our 2018:

• In 2018, we registered a record breaking 3.8 million page views of breaking news, analysis and our thousands of images of set design and motion graphics galleries.
• This represents as 34 percent increase in views over 2017.
• User sessions also increased 53 percent from 2017.
• A combined 700,000 minutes of video was watched on our YouTube channel.
• NewscastStudio’s global Alexa rankings shifted, placing the publication well ahead of competing online industry publications.

Look for more leading analysis, reporting, galleries and new videos from NewscastStudio in 2019 as we start our 16th year.

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