YouTube Trends Articles

YouTube Trends Adds Nifty Map for Popular Videos Across the U.S.

YouTube Trends has added a map that will allow you to see what videos are conquering which regions of the country, complete with nifty clickable thumbnails. You can break it down by age, gender, views and shares, and just have a grand old time interpreting the data.

Psy's 'Gentleman:' Sophomore Effort Soars, Breaks Records

PSY's "Gangnam Style" is at 1.5 billion views an counting. Really, his next effort, "Gentleman," had nowhere to go but up based on all the goodwill generated by his first song. The second video mirrors the success we see from a lot from sequels in the movie industry.

The YouTube Advertiser Wish List: YouTube, Get On This (Part 3)

After we talked about what we'd like YouTube to do for uploaders and viewers, now it's the advertisers' turn. What would they really want out of the YouTube experience if they could make wishes and get it to happen? Consider this Part 3 of The YouTube Wish List, in which we rub our magic lamps and hope the genie has YouTube skills.

YouTube Searches Now Part of Google Trends

Google Trends now has YouTube searches going back to 2008. You want to know when certain topics are trending? Go to Google Trends and enter in some search terms. It's a good way to figure out some tentpoling opportunities, or just spending time analyzing good old-fashioned data.

'Harlem Shake' Meme Is 2013's 'S*** Girls Say' Trend

Many are comparing the YouTube "Harlem Shake" craze to PSY's "Gangnam Style," but the relative ease at which people can do a 30-second video and upload it to YouTube has more shades of the "S*** [People] Say" phenomenon that took place after "S*** Girls Say" ...

YouTube's Top 10 Lists - Most Popular Videos by Genre for 2012

YouTube Trends announced a whole bunch of other Top 10/Trending lists over the weekend, breaking down the videos into specific genres.  Some of them seem kind of a stretch or too vague, like "Top 10 Eye-Popping Videos" or "Top 10 Awe-Inspiring Videos," but hey, any ...

Using YouTube to Make 2012 Presidential Election Predictions

I’m very confident that Internet marketers and video content producers can use YouTube to make 2012 presidential election predictions. And, by that, I mean you can use YouTube to make accurate 2012 presidential election predictions. How is this even remotely possible? According to RealClearPolitics, Mitt ...

Nike’s YouTube Videos Snatch Gold from Jaws of Official Olympic Advertisers

According to Demitri Kalogeropoulos of The Motley Fool Blog Network, “There are 11 multinational companies that make up the official list of worldwide sponsors to the Olympic games. And to get on this list they each pay a hefty premium for their places near the ...

A Fireworks Display Gone Wrong Shows What Goes Right On YouTube

Many times when we think of how we can make a video successful, we forget that many times, it's a happy accident.  It's just the fact that a camera was there, ready to capture something beautiful in its own right, but maybe something goes wrong.  ...

Social Marketing Success for Brands: Socialbakers Shares Recipe in Time for London 2012 Olympics

Socialbakers has added YouTube to its Analytics PRO dashboard, which means that brands can now measure the effectiveness of their social marketing campaigns across three major social media networks. This includes Facebook, which had 157.0 million unique visitors in the U.S. in May 2012, according ...

YouTube Brandcast to Help Marketers Get the Most Out of YouTube

Google will hold their first ever upfront today, highlighting a bevy of star-packed channels and releasing exciting findings from a comprehensive study of YouTube trends.  The online video behemoth, which shows 3 billion hours of video to over 800 million users, will be able to ...

Why It's Difficult For Videos To Go Viral, And Impossible To Predict

So we should know by now that achieving viral status on a video should not be your goal.  But for the past few months I have read several articles trying to make sense of why a video does go viral.  Back in November, YouTube Trends ...

YouTube Trends Reveals Top YouTube Videos Around The World

Lest we Americans forget, YouTube is a global enterprise.  We've seen in the past couple of years, but especially this year, how the film industry doesn't rely as much on domestic box office to measure its success anymore.  YouTube has been entering new territories and ...

YouTube Trends: Past Performance Is Not Indicative Of Future Results

Last week, I wrote, "It's almost December and it's fairly easy to predict what's going to happen next month.  Everyone from the Official YouTube Blog to the Meme Machine to Visible Measures will take a look at the top YouTube trends in 2011.” I added, ...

YouTube Trends In 2011: Conventional Wisdom Can’t See The Forest For The Trees

It's almost December and it's fairly easy to predict what's going to happen next month.  Everyone from the Official YouTube Blog to the Meme Machine to Visible Measures will take a look at the top YouTube trends in 2011. If what's past is prologue, then ...