Cinco de Mayo episode nears 800,000 views on YouTube
I'm thinking that by the end of today or mid-day Saturday, our Cinco de Mayo episode - our most watched episode ever, will hit the 800,000 view mark on YouTube. It's in the top 100 most viewed entertainment videos on their site.
A lot of people have asked me why I think this episode broke out on YouTube, and it wasn't because it was featured on the front page (like our Pi Day episode).
Rather, I think it's 80% because of the Spanish speaking users who sent this around virally, and 20% because we had this episode available with the proper keywords ON the day OF Cinco de Mayo, as opposed to all the videos from office parties, etc...that happened AFTER Cinco de Mayo. In addition, since this was really the first Cinco de Mayo since YouTube was "known" - we had some of the only related content up there. The fact that the day landed on Friday, when a ton of bored office workers typed it in, definitely helped.
Once it broke out, it got on the DIRECTOR VIDEO side panel, and there ya go...
On another note, time is REALLY flying by. I'm looking through some of our archives and for instance, I can't believe we produced this episode in April and it's now November.
A lot of people have asked me why I think this episode broke out on YouTube, and it wasn't because it was featured on the front page (like our Pi Day episode).
Rather, I think it's 80% because of the Spanish speaking users who sent this around virally, and 20% because we had this episode available with the proper keywords ON the day OF Cinco de Mayo, as opposed to all the videos from office parties, etc...that happened AFTER Cinco de Mayo. In addition, since this was really the first Cinco de Mayo since YouTube was "known" - we had some of the only related content up there. The fact that the day landed on Friday, when a ton of bored office workers typed it in, definitely helped.
Once it broke out, it got on the DIRECTOR VIDEO side panel, and there ya go...
On another note, time is REALLY flying by. I'm looking through some of our archives and for instance, I can't believe we produced this episode in April and it's now November.
1 Comments:
Yup. It was through that episode that I found out about this great Podcast. If YouTube hasn't hadn't suggested it after watching one of the "Ask a Ninja" videos a friend had sent me, I would never have found your great show.
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