More YouTube Trends
by Asi Sharabi, this time his analysis comprises the 100 most popular movies of the last month, effectively using YouTube in a similar way as Google's Zeitgeist. And since the numbers of newly posted and viewed videos are still skyrocketing, he might well have a point.
Before I start breaking the chart I’d like to raise two issues. First, as fellow blogger and YT analyst James Kelm told me, one challenge with identifying YT trends is that the tail is tremendously long. As best as he could tell, the all times top 100 chart analysed in the first report accounts for only about 2% of total views at the current run rate. That's staggering. The top 100 most viewed this month is a much better database to spot YT trends, as a quick calculation revealed, together, these videos been watched 50,967,641 times (at the time I sat down to write this report) – this accounts for about 50% of all videos watched this month, so we can get a better picture on this viral theme-park that is YouTube.
Obvious highlights are the Zidane headbutt, but there are more noteworthy observations: 86% of the most viewed videos could be classified as user generated content, and over a quarter of the most popular videos were non-english.
Oh, and thanks for this weird movie (encountered during his research), thank god for language barriers...
Ze zouden beter da ventje zijn tong uittrekken!
Posted by: Fred | 07 August 2006 at 14:24
Hi, like your ideas, I think that the trend towards older people on the net could be a strong way to open things up on youtube..I came across this clip of older people doing ballet, which is pretty strong...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe2_ixh1H90
Posted by: anton hecht | 16 August 2006 at 14:58