Academic Earth received more than one million visits less than 3 months after its Jan. 18 launch, with 50% of visitors coming from outside of the US. Users have been particularly drawn to content related to job skills.
2. Website Overview
“Academic Earth is the Hulu for Education.”
- TechCrunch
6
leading universities sources:
Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford,
Berkeley, and Princeton
60
full video courses
2,400
total video lectures
3. Traffic Statistics
1,190,000 visits
in first three months following Jan. 18 beta launch
600,000
500,000
400,000
300,000
200,000
100,000
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Month 1 Month 2 Month 3
Unique Monthly Visitors Total Monthly Visits
4. Broad International Reach
54% of visits from outside of the US,
representing a total of 213 countries.
Top 10
1. Germany
2. United Kingdom
3. India
4. Poland
5. Japan
6. Brazil
7. Spain
8. Australia
9. France
10. Israel
Shading represents distribution of visits.
US and Canada visits excluded from map
and top-10 list.
5. Most Popular Subjects
1. Computer Science
2. Entrepreneurship
Users particularly drawn
3. Economics to subjects related to job
skills.
4. Mathematics
5. Engineering
6. History
7. Philosophy
8. Psychology
9. Religion
10. Biology
6. Most Viewed Lectures
Rank Lecture Title Instructor University
1 Origins of the Financial Mess Alan Blinder Princeton
2 Measurements of Space and Time Walter Lewin MIT
3 Sigmund Freud Paul Bloom Yale
4 Starcraft Theory and Strategy Alan Feng Berkeley
5 Philosophy of Life and Death Shelly Kagan Yale
6 The World is Flat Thomas Friedman MIT
7 The Human Brain and Muscular System Marian Diamond Berkeley
8 Dualism vs. Physicalism Shelly Kagan Yale
9 Intro to the American Novel Since 1945 Amy Hungerford Yale
10 Private Equity and the Financial Crisis Stephen Schwarzman Yale
7. Most Viewed Courses
Rank Lecture Title Instructor University
1 Death Shelly Kagan Yale
2 Introduction to Psychology Paul Bloom Yale
3 The American Novel Since 1945 Amy Hungerford Yale
4 Physics I: Classical Mechanics Walter Lewin MIT
5 Computer Science I David Malan Harvard
6 Linear Algebra Gilbert Strang MIT
7 Game Theory Benjamin Polak Yale
8 Financial Markets Robert Shiller Yale
9 General Human Anatomy Marian Diamond Berkeley
10 Programming Methodology Mehran Sahami Stanford