On Thursday, Barack Obama addressed a crowd of over 200,000 people in Tiergarten, Berlin while his campaign covered the speech in real-time online.

The official 24:40 minute long YouTube video of Obama's speech has been viewed 102,014 times at 6pm on Friday, but as techPresident points out, YouTube view count was stuck at 63,000 for hours, leaving it impossible to tell the actual number of views the speech has received.

Four major German broadcasters carried Obama's speech live in both German and English including German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF, and all- news channels ntv and N24.

German Weekly Newsmagazine Der Spiegel in print and online sums up Obama coverage in Germany with their headline this morning reading, "Germany meets the Superstar." The leading German daily newspaper Zeit Online had three of its top five stories featuring Obama.

Bernhard Mullmann, a program exec at ZDF, has said of the extraordinary amount of coverage, "This is an unprecedented level of coverage for a U.S. presidential candidate...but I think it is justified because of the level of interest with Obama in Germany...It is comparable with President Kennedy's legendary visit (to Berlin in 1963). Both in the hopes Germans have that Obama will bring change in the U.S. and also in the hype and way his speech is being staged for political purposes."

Our take - With the Internet, people around the world have been able to view, often in real-time, Sen. Obama's speeches on issues that greatly affect their country as well as ours. In this new era of global digital politics, Obama's speech will go down in history as one of the most important early milestones.