Video taking off 15x its usual first day

AP's live Starship Flight 14 feed picks up where the prep left off

SpaceX's own pictures of a first attempt to reach orbit, carried live by the news agency, opened at about fifteen times a usual AP debut.

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Associated Press Story of September 29, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 388,301 views a day, 15 times a normal first day on this channel (25,450).

LIVE: SpaceX Starship Flight 14 launch

Now the launch itself. A day after a video of Starship getting ready for its 14th test flight led the Associated Press channel, AP's livestream of the flight has taken over. "LIVE: SpaceX Starship Flight 14 launch" came close to 200,000 views within a day, about fifteen times the pace a new AP upload usually manages at the start.

The description explains why this flight was worth watching live. SpaceX was trying to send its super-sized rocket into orbit for the first time, carrying its most advanced Starlink satellites yet. Earlier Starship test flights stayed short of a full orbit. Starship is the largest and most powerful rocket ever flown, built to be fully reusable, and a version of it is NASA's chosen lunar lander for the Artemis program. The footage is SpaceX's own, credited as such.

The rest of the channel did well too. Across everything it has posted, AP drew nearly double its usual daily views. That is a big day for a wire service whose about page traces its reporting back to the 1840s. Among news channels of a similar size, CBC News and TMZ were also running above their normal pace.

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The facts

Channel: Associated Press
Subscribers: 4,670,000
Channel views, pace per day: 4,095,879 (on a normal day: 2,330,370)
Video published: September 28, 2026
Video views so far: 197,086 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 388,301

The numbers

The figures below show the launch stream's first day next to what a new Associated Press video usually draws, along with the channel's busier-than-usual day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

25,450

this video

388,301

subscribers

4,670,000

total views

4,581,809,614

views per day

4,095,879

typical day: 2,330,370