In case we needed a way to find out what's most popular among the internets, two guys created a site called the Viral Video Chart that shows what's hot in the proverbial streets of YouTube, MySpace and Google Video. The site spiders blogs for embedded and linked-to videos, weighs it in a magical formula, and presents the results on their friendly front page. The charts are calculated on a daily basis, and they keep a history of #1's and link to the videos (unless they've been taken down, of course.) Pretty interesting concept, to say the least. Mainstream media outlets will discover this one day, and we'll see someone getting injured and/or making a fool of themselves on the nightly news.
1. This seems to be a good site to track what is viral and popular once an individual video reaches a large number of views. These type of lists do not track the tail of the web which I believe to be much larger. There are more tail categories with views under 1M each reaching more viewers in total. These "tail" videos spread around the globe equally well based on my experience and reach a potentially larger audience. There is a growing demand for distribution of these "tail" videos on a global scale to specific audiences.
Posted at 11:10AM on Sep 21st 2006 by Video Commendo