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[...] Of the 18 videos that Visible Measures suggest have received more than 100 million views, 14 (or 17 depending on your point of view) were professionally produced. This shouldn’t necessarily surprise us, but it is worth noting as [...]

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By: Raj Alam

Raj Alam — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:29:01 +0000

Yeah, no kidding. The Star Wars kid is missing for sure. What about the Dramatic Prairie Dog? One thing that isn’t not being considered by VM is that a popular video gets copied and changed hundreds of times. Look at how many Dramatic Prairie Dog spoofs there are….I think this study is bogus because people aren’t going to spoof something from the Main Stream Media like they will user generated stuff.

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By: Toni Anicic

Toni Anicic — Mon, 04 May 2009 08:17:44 +0000

Great point there Sean, I totally agree with you. If we’re measuring the *viral* success of the videos, this list is not really relevant.

By: Avatar X

Avatar X — Mon, 04 May 2009 05:26:18 +0000

flawed since it don’t has a reference to the two yet undisputed champions of viral videos: Star Wars Kid and Numa Numa guy that are in the 500+ million views.

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Mon, 04 May 2009 02:35:55 +0000

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By: antje wilsch

antje wilsch — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:21:52 +0000

that list is bogus; i don’t even see the best video of all time on there
http://www.yout...h?v=gEdJdGlUmbc

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By: jd

jd — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:32:54 +0000

That the 18 most viewed videos are professionally created does not suggest that pros beat amateurs.

By: Buzzlair Voufincci

Buzzlair Voufincci — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:30:59 +0000

i wonder why no one mention lonelygirl15. its stupid, by the point is, shes popular too.

By: Matt Cutler

Matt Cutler — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:25:36 +0000

Thanks for the constructive feedback!

With that said, our system has identified a few additional candidates for the 100 million views list. We’re verifying the results now and hope to have an update out early next week.

By: Mr. Recycle

Mr. Recycle — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:21:09 +0000

Wouldn’t it be more interesting to see what % of all the viral videos ever viewed were profession versus user generated? It is no surprise that most of the “blockbusters” are professional. User generated is more about serving the long tail.

By: Raj Alam

Raj Alam — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:48:09 +0000

Visible Measure’s product does not work at all. You’re going to tell me Rick Astley’s video isn’t on this list? My 70 year old mother in India knows about that video.

By: Matt Cutler

Matt Cutler — Sun, 03 May 2009 21:01:12 +0000

One hundred million. No video, as far as we can tell, has ever exceeded 1 billion views across the major video sharing destination sites.

By: Mark Carras

Mark Carras — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:27:21 +0000

This article would be less depressing if I didn’t totally agree with it. Darn you Robin. Darn you all to heck!

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sun, 03 May 2009 19:34:34 +0000

I hadn’t seen that Charlie Bit My Finger video either, but that was one of the stupidest YouTube videos I’ve ever seen. How on Earth did it get so many views?

By: Simon Edhouse

Simon Edhouse — Sun, 03 May 2009 17:22:11 +0000

I agree with SolarplaneZ that the Long Tail is the more important factor here… Robin you say:

“It’s not about winning or losing, nor is it about the long tail or user-generated content per se – the list is about which videos spread most i.e. professionally produced content.”

I guess you mean that your article is about what you say you want it to be about… ok. – Sure the top 18 videos were overwhelmingly made up of professionally produced content (which got the highest individual views per video) …but the clear implication, is that you think that proves something, and my guess is that the conclusion drawn is that viewers prefer this content over UGC. Trouble is that in the bigger scheme of things, I don’t think that inference/conclusion really means anything.

i.e. Its a result that is hardly surprising, because this is a snap-shot in a continuum that represents a disruptive-scenario to TV and Broadcast media generally. As such, its natural for these 18 articles of “professionally produced content” to be at the top of the Power-Law distribution, and for the ‘not-good-enough’ content to be the hot-bed of disruption. (This is text-book disruptive-theory) …and let’s not forget that on YouTube alone that leaves approximately 142,499,982 others videos uploaded. (ref: http://tinyurl.com/6mvamr)

If the story is about: “See! Professionally Produced Content kills UGC! then its all too easy to justify why those 18 videos could not in fact be just pushed back into a 1.0 type channel…

The actual reality is that as you go down the Power-Law curve the % of UGC would increase, and perhaps % of views of UGC vs Prof-content per user would reveal a more meaty story… This is why the story of 18 top videos is not as interesting as the long-tail story. Because ultimately if there wasn’t a long-tail UGC revolution (that also gives rise to far less complex copyright issues as well) then there would not be a ‘video-sharing-site’ story being discussed on Tech Crunch at all.

By: rugert

rugert — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:33:10 +0000

where is the rick roll?

By: StreetBloggers

StreetBloggers — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:16:34 +0000

Well Google Me News. One million views .

http://www.googlemenews.com

Since when do technos work sundays

By: pacman online

pacman online — Sun, 03 May 2009 15:10:15 +0000

Hahah the charlie one is my favorite, nice to see at least one good user generated video up there!

By: Robin Wauters

Sun, 03 May 2009 15:05:17 +0000

I laughed