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YouTube Video Stats, Sharing, and 2007 Re-Mixed

Posted by Zonk on from the automedia-for-the-people dept.

destinyland writes "YouTube's most popular videos in 2007 were a bunch of major label music videos, and YouTube is scrambling to re-assure the net roots community with an alternate list of 2007's "Most Memorable" videos. 'The rankings, released by YouTube on Thursday, took into account the most shared, most discussed, top rated and general popularity of clips...' One article argues that the real trend in 2007 was viral re-mixes of the original viral videos. 'In 2007 the viral video stars spawned their own wave of counter-memes, proving once again that the internet moves in mysterious ways.'"

4 of 47 comments (clear)

  1. YouTube needs an "off-topic/deceptive" flag by Animats · · Score: 5, Insightful

    YouTube needs some kind of flagging system:

    1. Clip is not even vaguely related to title or description.
    2. Clip is a collection of stills.
    3. Clip contains pirated video with crap music replacing the original.
    4. Clip contains pirated audio with crap video replacing the original.
    5. Clip contains ads.
    6. Clip contains logo overlays.
    1. Re:YouTube needs an "off-topic/deceptive" flag by troll+-1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Perhaps the last thing youtube needs right now is this kind of feature-creep. If enough people share our dislikes the clip won't be shared and it won't be popular.

      What's nice about youtube is any clip can become popular. It's a very democratic system. Contrast this with the big media distribution system we've suffered all these years (aka television) where other people decided what was good for us.

  2. These Videos Cost Youtube Money by illectro · · Score: 4, Insightful

    All those major label videos are costing Youtube money to show, that's why embedding is disabled for many of those most viewed videos - because they have to pay a cut of the Ad revenue, and with embedded videos they're not getting any direct ad revenue. This is exactly why youtube wants to promote its 'alternate' list, because otherwise the bloggers won't be able to embed any of the top videos on their pages and drive traffic to youtube.

  3. Is it just me...? by xthor · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Am I the only person here who's never seen ANY of these videos? Hell, I'd never heard of Chocolate Rain till I read this story.