AP’s YouTube Top 10
On the topic of top 10 lists, The Associated Press takes a stab at the “most significant” YouTube videos (or video categories) of 2006. One critique: it includes a few things that really took off in 2005 (Lazy Sunday and the Chinese Backstreet Boys). NewTeeVee heads probably have all of these bookmarked, but the list would be a good one to clip for posterity.
The picks:
- lonelygirl15
- Lazy Sunday (note: back on YouTube, where it belongs, but it might get taken down again)
- George Allen “macaca” incident
- YouTube founders announce Google acquisition
- OK Go’s treadmill music video
- Michael Richards’ rant (looks like it’s been removed)
- geriatric1927
- various videos used in legal investigations
- Chinese Backstreet Boys
- funtwo guitarist, Barats & Bereta, Aleksey Vayner
Jackson adds: prepare to get dated.
“Hey, do you remember Lonely15Girl?”
“No, dad.”
The day is fast approaching when “She was famous on YouTube once.” becomes the new “She was big in the Catskills.”
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We took a stab, too. We measured buzz - blog linkage and embeds - across millions of sites to produce five official top 10’s for 2006. The top clip was Kerry’s gaffe in the run up to the midterms.
Scott Button on December 15th, 2006 at 4:28 pm - Permalink
eat no fish,
Silvia on May 30th, 2008 at 6:04 am - Permalink