Weezer, a band founded in Los Angeles in 1992, launched their "Pork And Beans" video on YouTube using a group of well known “YouTube celebs”. Their video was launched only on May 23, 2008 but it has been already viewed 2,051,610 times generating 1,007 video responses and 15,122 text comments, plus more than 600 blog posts, according to Viral Video Chart. Great viral marketing using YouTube celebrities!
Almost 140 million downloads were made on YouTube for the nine videos mentioned in South Park’s also famous video, “Meet the Internet Stars”. The nine video is only 33,2 megabytes together but the total amount of downloaded information is around 586 terabytes! To have a comparison: As of May 2007, the US Library of Congress has collected more than 70 terabytes of data, which means that more than 8 times of bytes were downloaded in the form of just these videos from YouTube than the entire information stored in the Library of Congress. All together more than 600 thousand comments and more than 400 video comments were sent commenting these videos.
Just a little statistics on internet video consumption: Internet users in the US watched 11.5 billion online videos in March 2008, up 13% over February 2008 and 64% over March 2007, according to comScore Video Metrix. On average each Internet users in the US watched 83 videos during March.
Will video downloading and P2P file sharing “kill the web” if new data transmission technologies will not arise in the forthcoming years? Some experts are rather skeptic:
"The web infrastructure - and even Google's - doesn't scale," said Vincent Dureau, Google's head of TV technology in an article of the Guardian. "It's not going to offer the quality of service that consumers expect."
Meet the Internet Stars - South Park
Hahaha
49,779,343 views / Video Responses: 212 / Text Comments: 64,344
"Chocolate Rain" Original Song by Tay Zonday
22,351,878 views / Video Responses: 1,422 / Text Comments: 176,042
Chris Crocker - LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!
20,121,580 views / Video Responses: 2,271 / Text Comments: 287,699
Sneezing Panda
14,914,996 views / Video Responses: 104 / Text Comments: 15,745
Numa Numa
13,957,523 views / Video Responses: 0 Text Comments: 265
Star Wars Kid
7,240,952 views / Video Responses: 0 / Text Comments: 35,339
Dramatic Look
6,867,796 views / Video Responses: 7 / Text Comments: 8,764
afro ninja
2,841,287 views / Video Responses: 0 / Text Comments: 6,412
Tron Guy
1,245,827 views / Video Responses: 0 / Text Comments: 5,465
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