Yahoo! Search Engine Firm Primetime Program, Reaches 100 Million

Updated on Monday, November 24th, 2008 at 11:29 am

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Sunnyvale, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - November 24, 2008 - Yahoo! search engine and global Internet company’s TV’s ‘Primetime in No Time’ program, reached a major milestone for an original online program, surpassing 100 million streams.

The milestone comes just eight months since its March 2008 launch, and makes ‘Primetime in No Time’ one of the most successful original programs in the history of the Internet.

Created to provide Yahoo! users with a daily comedic, rapid-fire recap of primetime TV’s most water cooler-worthy moments, Primetime in No Time reaches TV fans exclusively on Yahoo! TV, hosted by comedian Frank Nicotero and brought to users by Verizon.

By covering the biggest TV moments in a timely and irreverent way, Primetime in No Time maintains one of the largest audiences of any show on the Web. It now draws an average of four million streams per week on Yahoo! TV.

Sibyl Goldman, Vice President and general manager of Yahoo! Entertainment remarked, ”It’s no accident that ‘Primetime in No Time’ is a runaway hit with our users, given that prime time programming remains one of America’s favorite topics. Whether it’s a quirky re-cap of a favorite show you may have missed, or one of those guilty pleasures you refuse to watch, we’re giving Yahoo! users a snapshot of TV’s most talked-about moments each day.”

Yahoo!’s formula of creating original content that is timely and contextually relevant has led to some of the most popular original programs on the Web. Its Fantasy Football Live program is the most-watched live program on the Internet with as many as 250,000 streams per week. Additionally, the Yahoo! Sports Minute and Yahoo! Finance’s Tech Ticker set the standard for Internet sports and business programs with 115,000 and 420,000 average daily streams respectively in the past month (Yahoo! internal data).

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.

For more information on Primetime in No Time, please visit: http://primetime.tv.yahoo.com.