Actually, in Mike Wesch's An anthropological introduction to YouTube <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU> he says his research shows that the most common videos uploaded to YouTube are home videos meant for less than 100 viewers. This looks like another example of the long tail being bigger in aggregate than the hits. Of course since each individual video is of little note, even in aggregate they largely go unnoticed and their creators neither intend nor make a living off of them. People are out there connecting with one another through video all the time. And though it doesn't have 10's of millions of views, Barack Obama's 37 minute speech on race has been watched over 6 million times on YouTube so it isn't all about pop stars and skateboarding dogs.
- Verdi On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:23 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a word? Cheating. This has been documented in the case of the Lavigne > video, pushed to #1 by rabid fans putting the video on replay. > -----Original Message----- > From: "Jay dedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:24:03 > To: Videobloggers<[email protected]> > Subject: [videoblogging] And the winner is..... > > > Here's a quick rundown of the ten most watched videos on Youtube last year. > Ill never understand why that "history of dance: keeps being watched. > http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_youtube_videos_of_all_time_2008.php > > Jay > ____________________ > * > Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time, 2008 Edition* > Written by Richard MacManus / September 29, 2008 8:40 PM > > Last year we reviewed YouTube's 10 most popular videos. It's time to update > that list and see what, if anything, has changed. Last year we concluded > that 7 of the top 10 videos were music - with 5 of those being professional > videos. That trend has continued, although there are now no amateur music > videos in the top 10. There are 6 music videos this year, all of them from > professional musicians and their record labels. > > While YouTube became famous from user-generated content, this year's top 10 > list shows that professionals still create the most popular content. Of the > 4 non-music videos, 2 are comedy (professional comedians), 1 is a sappy > foreign love story, and the last is a cute baby video. Only the baby video > seems to be an amateur one. > > So, what's changed over the last year in terms of rankings? Well there is a > new number 1. We also now have two videos that have gone over 100 million > views - the top video last year was at 55.8 million. There are 8 new > entrants to the top 10, with the only two survivors being numbers 1 & 2 (who > swapped places this year). > > Here's the top 10 as of September 2008: [Note: we wanted to embed all 10 of > them, but curiously 5 of these videos have had embedding disabled by YouTube > - which is surprising to us, because embedding videos on third party sites > is one of the best ways to get a video to 'go viral'. I guess the video > owners think they've already gone viral enough.] > > -- > http://jaydedman.com > 917 371 6790 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- http://graymattergravy.com
