Comments on: Oprah’s First Webcast Crashes, She Apologizes

By: Janet Meiners

Janet Meiners — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:14:15 +0000

Thanks for the update Cece. I’ll make note of it in the post.
-Janet

By: Cece Salomon-Lee

Cece Salomon-Lee — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:06:29 +0000

Update – I just read a post on the Huffington Post that provided insight into what happened. I’m assuming that the issue was resolved for her March 10 webcast. Am I correct?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shelly-palmer/oprahs-webcast-stateof_b_9 0386.html

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Great Prices Here » Most Powerful Women In The World — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:56:25 +0000

[...] was surprised Oprah did not feature in this Forbes list, especially with the power of her Book Club. She does however, feature in the top 10 most powerful women in Showbiz list. As do J.K. Rowling, [...]

By: Futon-Matt

Futon-Matt — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:33:24 +0000

Yeah, this failure will just make the next attempt more popular.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:30:18 +0000

Oprah has some amazing pull. Anything she touches turns to gold. Even despite the technical difficulties, I guarantee that even more people tune in for her next webisode.

By: Piper

Piper — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:45:50 +0000

I’m really surprised that they weren’t able to anticipate this, but then again, it’s not like they’re good at dealing with the impact of their own influence. There are plenty of businesses whose products have been mentioned on her show with little to no notice for the company, leaving them completely unprepared for the deluge of orders.

I realize that the rate of people following a show or publication over to the Internet isn’t always that great, but come on, this is Oprah.

By: Jayson

Jayson — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:09:27 +0000

Those numbers are just amazing. I’d think they’d expect something like that to happen and prepare for it, maybe they tried? Oprah is extremely influential so it’s not surprising to see that she drew such a crowd and that she’s driving sales once again through her book club.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:51:48 +0000

Getting into her book club is a sureshot way to becoming more than a bestseller. Just look at the numbers here. I wonder how she chooses amongst the many requests she must be getting. She probably even takes a cut out of the sales. I’d love to know if she chooses books of her on accord or can you buy the coveted spot.

By: PS3

PS3 — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:14:19 +0000

700,000 registered users is phenomenal. I am not embarrassed to admit that I have no idea how you put technology in place to cope with that.

Over here we get Jeremy Kyle. His audience peaks at around 700 – lol

By: Cece Salomon-Lee

Cece Salomon-Lee — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:31:25 +0000

Since I work for a webcasting company, I was intrigued to see how this event would go for Oprah. The ability to manage the sheer number of live streams is beyond what we normally see for corporate webcasts. It’ll be interesting to hear how they manage the next webcast and onslaught of viewers.

By: Alex Isaacs

Alex Isaacs — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:05:06 +0000

I’ve heard about her book club, and how powerful it is. Overheard some girls talking about it, and they were saying that a book she premiered went from selling 30,000 copies to 500,000+ after debuting on her show. (not sure about the numbers, but it was a monsterous % increase of the sort). Oprah is one powerful marketing tool herself!

Wonder if Andy has tried getting his book in her club? haha I’m sure he’d appreciate the revenue and exposure!