The Raw Power of YouTube
September 28th, 2006
Wow. This weekend I truly learned just how powerful YouTube has become. Sometime before the sun came up on Saturday, my new cartoon “Hebrew Crunk” was posted at the top of the “Recently Featured” section on the YouTube homepage. By the time I checked my email at 10:00 am that morning, 71,000 people had viewed it and there was 430 comments. Within a couple hours…on a Saturday morning. Incredible.
As the week progressed and my cartoon worked it’s way down from the top of the front column, the views continued to mount up but less so each day. 403,344 so far on day 5. Let no one dismiss YouTube for a while. It’s where the action is these days.
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On September 28th, 2006 at 12:00 am
You said it Dan. Myself, I’m wondering how long the good times will be there, but… I’ve been very wrong about these thing pretty often!
On October 3rd, 2006 at 12:00 am
It’s up to 900 comments now…it’s like tapping into the collective conscious of the masses…the inner monologue of every schmoe who watched that cartoon. I ask myself “Do I really want to know what these people are thinking?”…Yeah-Ya!…but, really no.
On May 28th, 2008 at 2:28 am
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