Detroit Jazz Festival: livestream reaches 1.75 million across 92 countries

DETROIT. The world's largest free jazz festival just had its biggest year. The Detroit Jazz Festival drew more than 300,000 people to downtown Detroit over Labor Day weekend and another 1.75 million through its livestream across 92 countries.

The festival, now in its 47th year, consolidated all three main stages at Hart Plaza for the first time, a move organizers made to connect the in-person and online crowds. Seven feeds ran at once, including the Carhartt Amphitheater Stage, the JPMorgan Chase Stage, and Dee Dee Bridgewater's Stage, carried on Streamworks, YouTube, and Facebook.