Cincinnati Zoo's birth livestream finds an audience on USA TODAY
The zoo announced its first animal-birth livestream, giving the channel's fifteen-upload week an unusual live attraction.
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Live: Cincinnati Zoo baby giraffe birth makes history
USA TODAY's biggest new upload offered viewers a chance to follow a giraffe birth live. "Live: Cincinnati Zoo baby giraffe birth makes history" drew about 33,000 views in its opening seven hours, and it is also the channel's busiest video by daily views right now.
The historic first is a specific one: Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden announced that it would livestream an animal birth for the first time in its history. That makes this something different from a zoo's edited newborn introduction, with the wait itself part of the invitation to watch. One viewer's practical question was about the due date.
The channel's fifteen uploads also included reporting from Bend, Oregon, where a shooting at an elementary school killed children and an adult. USA TODAY posted initial updates and a live officials' press conference as the news developed.
Across the channel, the week brought roughly ten million views and a modest increase in subscribers. Daily viewing is running somewhat above its usual level. Among nearby news channels, CBS News and The Wall Street Journal are having notably stronger-than-usual viewing days, while Sky News is quieter than its normal daily pace.
Beyond the giraffe livestream, witness footage of a Texas tornado and flooding in Oklahoma carries the most momentum. Next comes a smaller animal encounter with a very different soundtrack: California Highway Patrol using sirens to try to move sea lions off a roadway near a Monterey Bay marina.
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- Channel
- USA TODAY
- Subscribers
- 7,590,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 10,136,607
- Videos published this week
- 15
- Video published
- October 15, 2026
- Video views so far
- 33,224
The numbers
Here is USA TODAY's week in views, subscribers and uploads.
