The second annual live stream reached a global audience of 1.43 million unique viewers on Yahoo, across all devices, up 30% from 2016. Engagement also increased significantly this year, with more than 3.1 million total live views on Yahoo, up over 72% from 2016. Audiences spent a total of 24.7 million minutes on Yahoo, up 38% from 2016, watching Berkshire Hathaway Chairman & CEO Warren Buffett, and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, share their insights and advice, live from the CenturyLink Center in Omaha.
Additionally, through our live streaming partners in China, we saw another 3.89 million total live views for a combined 6.99 million total live views worldwide.
In addition to VOD replay on the site, Yahoo Finance has also made an audio replay of the meeting and accompanying interviews available via podcast for the first time ever, through a partnership with Acast. Find it on iTunes and other podcast stores now.
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Tune in as Yahoo hosts our second live stream of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting on Saturday, May 6. Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer will be on-the-ground at CenturyLink Center Omaha, alongside Yahoo News & Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga and Yahoo Finance Anchor Jennifer Rogers, with insight, analysis and news-making interviews. For the second year in a row, audiences will be able to watch live on Yahoo Finance – across desktop, tablet and mobile – as Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and his right-hand man Charlie Munger share their unscripted views on the company, the markets, the administration and whatever other topic that may come up. The shareholders meeting live stream on Yahoo Finance will once again be available in both English and Mandarin, with VOD replay available for 30 days following the meeting.
The schedule of live coverage includes:
10:00am ET – Yahoo Finance pre-show
10:15am ET – Live stream of morning session, featuring the Q&A with Buffett and Munger
1:00pm ET – Yahoo Finance Halftime Report
2:00pm ET – Live stream of afternoon session, featuring additional Q&A and business meeting
4:30pm ET – Yahoo Finance post-show wrap-up
Throughout the Pre-show and Halftime Report we’ll also feature a number of live and pre-taped interviews with the Yahoo Finance editorial team, including: Warren Buffett, Chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway; Todd Combs, Investment Manager for Berkshire Hathaway, and Ted Weschler, Portfolio Manager for Berkshire Hathaway; Coca Cola Chairman Muhtar Kent and newly appointed CEO, James Quincey; actress and Buffett friend, Glenn Close; Dairy Queen CEO John Gainor; former Vanguard CEO Jack Bogle; Brooks Running CEO Jim Weber; Chair, CEO and Chief Designer of Kathy Ireland Worldwide, Kathy Ireland, and many others.
This year, Yahoo Finance will also make an audio replay of the meeting and accompanying interviews available via podcast, through a partnership with Acast. With more than 50 million monthly listens to more than 1,000 shows globally, Acast is the world’s leading technology infrastructure for audio on demand and podcasts.
The Yahoo Finance’s Berkshire Hathaway podcast will be available on iTunes and other podcast stores, starting Monday, May 8. For more information on the Berkshire Hathaway Live Stream, visit the landing page on Yahoo Finance and be sure to follow the conversation on Twitter with @YahooFinance #BRKLiveStream.
Yahoo Finance and Berkshire Hathaway are once again opening the doors to the world for the second annual exclusive live stream of Berkshire Hathaway’s Shareholders meeting. We’re offering viewers a firsthand experience of the highly anticipated event attended by over 40,000 shareholders. This past year, Yahoo Finance live streamed the event for the first time ever, drawing in more than one million viewers, with an additional 17 million views to date. We expect 2017 to be no different.
People who tune in will get to hear first-hand from Warren Buffett, Vice Chairman Charlie Munger as well as watch interviews with a wide range of notable guests. But interviews and speeches are just the beginning. There’s a lot more to this event in Omaha, Nebraska. The live stream will take guests inside all the goings-on that weekend, the top local hotspots, and the carnival-like atmosphere of the exhibition hall where many of Berkshire’s subsidiaries showcase their products and services.
This is event is a great example of what sets Yahoo Finance apart – bringing exclusive content to our audience via our premium live streaming capabilities, at an unprecedented scale. We’re making it easy for you to watch, streaming the event across all devices in both English and Mandarin. An exclusive VOD replay will also be available on Yahoo Finance for 30 days following the meeting. Yahoo will offer video and display advertising, as well as sponsorship opportunities alongside the live stream.
The live stream on Yahoo Finance reached more than 1.8 million total views across all devices, in both English and Mandarin. More than 1.1 million unique viewers tuned in worldwide, spending a total of 17.6 million minutes watching Berkshire Hathaway Chairman & CEO Warren Buffett, and Vice Chairman Charlie Munger, share their insights, views and advice, live from the CenturyLink Center in Omaha. The content will remain exclusively on Yahoo Finance for the next 30 days and can be seen here.
Yahoo delivered the live stream in HD quality, with a rebuffering ratio of less than .75 percent. Advertisers also had a unique opportunity to connect with viewers alongside this much-anticipated event.
Come to Yahoo Finance on Saturday, April 30, beginning at 10 a.m. ET, to watch the first-ever live stream of Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholders meeting. We’re making this legendary event available to audiences around the world - across all devices - so that investors and non-investors alike will be able to witness history live, as Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett and his right-hand man Charlie Munger share their unscripted views on the company, the markets, the economy and whatever other topic that may come up.
I’ll be on the ground at the CenturyLink Center in Omaha, with the Yahoo Finance editorial team, providing live coverage and analysis throughout the day. We’re kicking it all off with a 30 minute pre-show, followed by the start of the meeting at 10:30 a.m. ET. At 1:00 p.m. ET, as the meeting breaks for lunch, we’ll present a special one hour half-time report, before resuming coverage of the meeting’s afternoon session at 2 p.m. ET. Alongside Yahoo Finance correspondent Nicole Sinclair and anchor Alexis Christoforous, we’ll be interviewing an all-star line-up of Berkshire enthusiasts and experts, high-profile shareholders, annual meeting attendees and executives, including: songwriter, and long-time Buffett friend Paul Anka, author and international speaker Robert Miles, legendary business journalist Carol Loomis, Sr. Partner, Munger Tolles & Olson, Ron Olson, BRK-B shareholder and series creator of “Breaking Bad” & “Better Call Saul”, Vince Gilligan, Chair, CEO and Chief Designer, of Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary Kathy Ireland Worldwide, Kathy Ireland, and many others.
For this much-anticipated, first-time live event on Yahoo, the exclusive pre-show and half-time report on Yahoo Finance will be sponsored by top brands including TD Ameritrade and Scottrade. The Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting live stream will be available in both English and Mandarin, and will be delivered in 1080p HD quality. VOD replay will be available on Yahoo Finance for 30 days following the meeting. For more information, and to check out some of our Berkshire Hathaway related content – including an interview with the Oracle of Omaha himself, Warren Buffett – go to:http://yhoo.it/BRKLive
You can also follow the conversation with @YahooFinance #BRKLiveStream
