THE YOUNG TURKS BROADCASTS TO RECORD AUDIENCE FOR IOWA CAUCUS NIGHT COVERAGE

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— Seven-Hour Live Broadcast to 256,000 Unique Views —
— Coverage Peaked at 53,000 Unique Views from 10-11 p.m. ET —

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2, 2016 – The Young Turks (www.TYTNetwork.com), the largest online news and politics show in the world, set record ratings for its live coverage of the Iowa Caucuses. The broadcast received 256,000 unique views over the course of its seven hours of live coverage, making it the largest audience for a live broadcast in The Young Turks’ 10-year history of live streaming.

Beginning at 6 p.m. ET, The Young Turks peaked in the fifth hour of coverage, with 53,000 unique views, the largest one-hour live viewership in show history. The show broadcast to 38,500 concurrent viewers at 11:10 p.m. ET, the highest point of the evening.

The Young Turks’ coverage was anchored from the show’s Los Angeles studio by Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola and Ben Mankiewicz. Jimmy Dore and Jordan Chariton were part of the coverage on the ground in Iowa. The show was streamed live via YouTube on its YouTube channel (www.YouTube.com/TheYoungTurks) and its homepage (www.TYTNetwork.com/Live)

Below is the breakdown of unique views per hour (all times ET):
6 -7 p.m.: 24,000
7-8 p.m.: 25,000
8-9 p.m.: 37,000
9-10 p.m.: 36,000
10-11 p.m.: 53,000
11-12 p.m.: 49,000
12-1 p.m.: 32,000

In December, The Young Turks celebrated the 10th anniversary of its daily live streamed show, making it the longest running show to be live streamed on a daily basis.

Throughout 2015, The Young Turks Network led all online News & Politics networks in comScore rankings among viewers aged 13-24 and 18-24. The Network finished the calendar year tops in the category for 12 consecutive months.

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