May 17, 2010
posted to YouTube
33 views
posted to my Facebook.
May 18, 2010
posted to Tumbler
Sent to 1 friend on Facebook
Sent to 3 friends on AIM
158 Views
1 reblog on tumblr
1 like on tumblr
5 likes on Youtube
2 comments on YouTube
4 likes on Facebook
2 comments on Facebook.
May 19, 2010
Repost on Facebook
1 like
2 comments
May 22, 2010
327 Views
6 likes on YouTube
3 comments on YouTube
May 26, 2010
419 Views; 7 likes on YouTube; 4 comments on YouTube; 3 Favorites
1 reblog on Tumblr; 1 like on Tumblr
6 likes on Facebook; 4 comments on Facebook
Summary
Jeremy and I posted our video at around 3:30 AM last week; we expected to get our first views by later in the morning or afternoon. We were wrong. Somehow someone on the internet found it and watched it within the first few minutes of its posting. From then we inundated our facebook profiles, tumblrs, and twitters with pleas and proclamations that our video was the funniest thing on YouTube ever. We pled and people answered. We have over 400 views and although some of them are friends of ours some are not. On tumblr, someone that I do not know from Germany liked the video. I thought that that was interesting because I did not expect it to get past Jeremy and my social circles.
The project was a little more complicated than I had expected because we wanted our video to really spread in the virtual world so we have to think about things that people would watch on YouTube. We interviewed some people asking them what they looked for in a good YouTube video. People typically wanted something they could
What we decided after doing some light research was that viral videos are not intended to be viral, they just happen. It would be impossible to create an original work and hope for it to spread like fire. Instead, we examined another type of viral video that had evident prevalence across the tubes. The is compilation-based videos such as remix, remesh, mashups of already spread user-generated content. We selected many of our favorite viral videos and compiled them into one. To help tie it in, we created a familiar intro to them and had a conclusion that is similarly popular. The iPhone commercial introduction sequence could be classified as a hook, which many of our friends have noted that it is the best part. This was interesting because we had no idea that our content would end up being the interesting and most viewed part of our video (according to YouTube statistics). Thanks to url tracking services such as bit.ly, it was easy to stalk the exact moment and demographics of the clicks our video received. Below is a breakdown of the predominant age groups that viewed our video. It is clear that the predominant population is in our own age-group which is a logical extrapolation of the social circles that we ourselves shared the video with.
Viewership:
| MALE | 18-24 | 36.95% |
| FEMALE | 18-24 | 34.10% |
| MALE | 35-44 | 12.05% |
| MALE | 25-34 | 9.32% |
| MALE | 65- | 2.94% |
| FEMALE | 13-17 | 2.52% |
| FEMALE | 25-34 | 2.08% |
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