The untimely passing of Amy Winehouse prompted her YouTube video searches and Billboard performance

It has been such bad news for the untimely passing of Amy Winehouse last Saturday. Music fans and other people have been prompted to seek out some of the singer’s most popular songs and music videos on YouTube. And according to the YouTube's viewing and search data, Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" became the top rising search on YouTube. The official Amy Winehouse "Rehab" YouTube video has reached more than 11 million clicks, while 6.5 million of which came from last weekend. Meanwhile, her other two songs "Back to Black" and "You Know I'm No Good" were seen over 4 million times each.

Besides the rising search on YouTube music videos of Amy Winehouse's songs, her songs also got favored on Billboard. After her passing on Saturday, July 23, Amy Winehouse's second album, 2007's "Back to Black," re-enters the Billboard 200 albums chart this week at No. 9 with 37,000 sold in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan. The week previous, it sold just 1,000. Winehouse's first album, 2004's "Frank," also comes back to the tally, re-entering at No. 57 with 8,000. 

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Lyrics of Amy Winehouse Back to Black for reference:

He left no time to regret

Kept his dick wet

With his same old safe bet

Me and my head high

And my tears dry

Get on without my guy

You went back to what you knew

So far removed from all that we went through

And I tread a troubled track

My odds are stacked

I'll go back to black

We only said good-bye with words

I died a hundred times

You go back to her

And I go back to.....

I go back to us

I love you much

It's not enough

You love blow and I love puff

And life is like a pipe

And I'm a tiny penny rolling up the walls inside

We only said goodbye with words

I died a hundred times

You go back to her

And I go back to

Black, black, black, black, black, black, black,

I go back to

I go back to

We only said good-bye with words

I died a hundred times

You go back to her

And I go back to

We only said good-bye with words

I died a hundred times

You go back to her

And I go back to black

Top 10 Most Popular Videos Thoughout YouTube History

In August 2007, ReadWriteWeb.com listed the top 10 YouTube videos for the first time. At that time, comedian Judson Laipply's video "Evolution of Dance" ranked the first place with nearly 56 million visits. In September 2008, ReadWriteWeb updated the list, and Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend" toped the list with 103 million views. In January this year, "Charlie bit my finger and it! " won the first prize with 148 million views.

The following is the latest list from ReadWriteWeb.com of the top ten videos on YouTube. It is based on the number of views as of November 3, 2010.

1. Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris; (374,403,983 views)
Justin's Baby is still the most popular video with the most views on YouTube. Recorded by Justin Bieber and featuring Ludacris, the video is achieving over one million views each day!

2. Lady Gaga - Bad Romance; 301,052,815 views
The first single in Lady Gaga's 2009 album The Fame: Monster

3. Charlie bit my finger - again !; 244,618,076 views
It's just a very cute video!

4. Shakira - Waka Waka(This Time for Africa); 226,529,099 views
Theme song and music video for the FIFA World Cup 2010, performed by Shakira featuring Freshlyground.


5. Eminem - Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna; 183,917,654 views
The music video broke the 24 hour view record in August, 2010 with 6.6 million views.

6. Miley Cyrus - Party In The U.S.A. - Official Music Video; 169,259,597 views

7. Evolution of Dance; 155,656,701 views
Comedian Judson Laipply incorporates 32 well known dance moves in the six-minute video. The video is posted in April 2009 and still in the top 10 list.

8. Pitbull - I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho); 149,693,727 views

9. Hahaha - Small daring boy; 144,110,962 views

10. Eminem - Not Afraid; 141,438,781 views

Off topic:

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Lady Gaga Becomes the First Person to Hit 1 Billion YouTube Video Views Milestone

Lady Gaga now becomes the most popular artist on YouTube. As her videos on YouTube have reached the 1 BILLION views milestone.

"We reached 1 Billion views on youtube little monsters! If we stick together we can do anything. I dub u kings and queens of youtube! Unite!", tweeted Lady Gaga on her Twitter this morning. The super star is the first person to receive 1 billion videos views on YouTube; and Justin Bieber will be the second one to reach this milestone with 962,726,797 total views currently.

Sources said that during September, Gaga's videos averages about 1.8 million views per day. Nontherless, Justin Bieber is still the King of YouTube, as during September, his YouTube videos received 3.7 million times per day, what's more, his music video 'Baby', the most viewed video all the time on YouTube has 365,840,791 views. The King of Pop – Michael Jackson with total 600 million views on YouTube is in the third place.

Below are Lady Gaga's 7 incredibly popular videos on YouTube (Want to download Lady Gaga's videos from YouTube? You can just use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader. It can download most videos from YouTube and other sites.):

• Bad Romance, with 296,982,175 views
• Just Dance, with 124,613,760 views
• Alejandro, with 94,504,556 views
• Telephone, with 88,603,322 views
• LoveGame, with 57,517,396 views
• Poker Face, with 43,799,466 views
• Paparazzi, with 39,793,126 views

The First and the Second Video on YouTube

Brief information of YouTube
YouTube history, events, statisctics

Five years ago in 2005, a site with the domain name www.youtube.com was activated on February 14. At that time, no one can image that this site will become the largest video site and the second biggest site in the world.

However, the first video on YouTube was not posted on Februarty 14, 2005. It was posted on April 23, 2005, at 8:27 PM on Saturday, with the title 'Me at the zoo' showing one of the YouTube founder Jawed Karim at San Diego zoo. The video was shot by Yakov Lapitsky and is only 19 seconds long. This video still can be viewed on YouTube. UP to now, this video has been viewed 3,715,026 times and has 23,050 comments. Here is the video -

This video looks common, but it opens a new era to online video. By July 2006, this site had 100 million video views and 65,000 video uploads per day. In October the same year, Google acquired YouTube for $1.65 billion – what fast-moving things they are in the Internet age!

Now you know the first video on YouTube is 'Me at the zoo', by the way, where the second YouTube video ever is?

The second video ever on YouTube is far less famous compare with the first one. It is titled 'My Snowboarding Skillz', also posted on April 23, 2005, and has only 26, 363 views and 314 comments. You can view it below -

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How to Optimize YouTube Video Ranking - Factors and Optimization Methods

Part One - Factors

Part Two – Video Ranking Optimization Methods

In my last post about video ranking optimization, I listed the factors that influence the video ranking in YouTube and Google organic search results. This post is going to tell you the things you need to do to get high ranking for your video.

1. Analyze and Identify Keywords
It is very important to compare different keywords before picking up your own keywords. Free tools you can use are Google Trends and Google Insights for Search; both of them are helpful to provide you the world's hot searches. Note that it is very difficult to get high ranking for some very popular searches terms which are highly competitive, you'd better to find a niche and the more complex keywords that go with long tail campaigns. After that you need to add you keywords to your text, such as title and description, but don't stuff too many keywords in the text.

2. Views, Ratings and Comments
The more of these your video has, the better for your videos ranking.

3. Backlinks building
Backlinks, also called incoming links, are the links that link back to your video page. Backlinks building is very important in SEO, and also very important for your video ranking. The more backlinks your video page has, the better for its ranking.
There are a lot of ways to get backlinks, such as link exchange, article submission, forum posting, blog comments, social websites links, etc. Revelant niche backlinks are highly recommended. Be careful not to spam, and use your keywords in the anchor text of the backlinks.

4. More exposure
Submit your video to as many free resources sites as possible, provided they link back to the YouTube page. The embed button also allows you to have your video shared on websites. The more exposure and the more websites share your video, the video is on the higher it will rank.

5. YouTube Interaction
Once your video is out there, interact on YouTube by watching other videos, commenting, subscribing, creating channels, and making friends. Interaction helps with the viral marketing, where one person tells another person about the video.

6. Transcripts
Include a transcript of the video as this will give the search engines information about your video. This will give your video text for the search engines to analyze and interpret. It also helps for accessibility issues.

7. RSS Feeds
Search engines' spiders like to crawl and index RSS feed. So it's good to create an RSS feed for your video page from RSS services websites such as FeedBurner.
You can then use services to ping your videos RSS feed, giving the video exposure across a variety of social networking and bookmarking sites within minutes.

(Off topic: You can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to legally download YouTube videos to your computer. It is free. It also can accelerate the loading speed of online video so that you can view online video smoothly. This is its user guide.)

How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part Three) - Qualifications & FAQ

How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part One) - Benefits of YouTube Partner
How to Become a YouTube Partner Part Two - YouTube Rental Beta

(Off topic:

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Qualifications

To become a YouTube partner, you need to meet the following requirement:

• You're able to create original video suitable for online video broadcasting and streaming.
• You own the right or have express permission to use and broadcast all the music or video you upload. Exceptions are not allowed.
• You regualarly upload videos that are viewed by thousands of YouTube users, or publish popular or commercially successful videos in other ways (such as DVDs sold online).

Meet the above requirements? If yes, Apply Now!

Note: all uploaded videos to YouTube are subject to the YouTube Community Guidelines and Terms of Use.

FAQ

What are the benefits to become a YouTube partner?
You can go to this post to learn more.

How long does it take for the partner application?
Due to the large volume of applications YouTube receives which requires screening, it's unable to offer a time estimate on when your application will be processed.
You will need either an approved AdSense account (for ad-supported content) or a Google Checkout business account (for rental content). If you know which type of content you would like to offer, you can set those accounts up in advance of your partnership approval.

Does a cover song classify as an original music video?
YouTube currently does not allow videos of artists singing cover songs into their partner program unless the artist has obtained full synchronization and performance rights. Cover songs are performances of songs that were previously recorded or commercially released by someone else.

Do YouTube accept audio as part of the program?
No, at this time YouTube accepts music video submissions only.

What type of ads will run on my content?
If you choose ad-supported videos, the ads are chosen automatically by YouTube's system, based on a number of contextual factors such as video category. If you choose streaming rentals, no ads will be shown.

Optimize YouTube Video Ranking - Factors and Optimization Methods

Part One - Factors

If you have uploaded video to YouTube, I'm sure you want your video get more view count. The question is: How to get more views? Is there any trick to push up my video on YouTube?

A good way to get more views for your video is to improve your video ranking on YouTube. Moreover, Google search engine indexes YouTube video pages, this means your video is possible to show in Google's organic search results.

(Off topic: You can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to legally download YouTube videos to your computer. It is free. It also can accelerate the loading speed of online video so that you can view online video smoothly. This is its user guide.)

Currently, there are two good ways to improve your video popularity. The first one is to optimize the video ranking in within YouTube; and the second way is to get a high ranking in Google's organic search results for your video page.

It is not an easy task, and will not be accomplished overnight. To do that, there are certain rules and basic approaches you need to know and keep in mind.

Factors that influence video ranking in YouTube

To improve ranking, we need to make clear that what influence the video ranking. We all know that there are 4 ways to sort the the video results on YouTube while we're searching video; these 4 ways are Relevance, Date Added, View Count, and Rating, which is a part of factors that influence video ranking in YouTube. In addition, according to YouTube guidelines there are more factors that influence video ranking. In general, the factors that influence the video ranking are listed below, you ought to be clear each of them.

• Video title
• Description
• Tags
• Incoming links
• Comments
• Subscribers
• Ratings
• Playlist additions
• Flagging
• Embeds
• Shares
• Age of video
• Views
• Channel views

Just like when optimizing a web page ranking, you need to focus on the text surrounding your video to make sure that it contains your most important keywords with the right keyword density. It also needs a certain amount of quality web pages that embed or link back to your video.

Part Two – Video Ranking Optimization Methods

Optimize Video for YouTube

If you have video to be uploaded to YouTube, it's very important to optimize the video before uploading. A well-optimized and high definition video can bring viewers better visual experiences, and may drive more viewers to your video.

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Before start, you can learn more information about Supported video / audio formats for uploading to YouTube.

In general, for best upload results, ensure your video and audio lengths are the same. If you're using an editing package, make sure that the file you upload to YouTube does not have edit lists. You can go to YouTube Uploading Tips for Video Editing Tools on Apple to learn more details.

Now let's begin to learn how to optimize widescreen video for YouTube uploads.

* Video needs to be original!

Original here means video with no decoding or encoding process. As each re-encoding can generally degrade the quality of your video and create some specific problems too, which we'll address below. So the less a video is re-encoded prior to uploading, the better the resulting YouTube video quality.

* Aspect ratio & no letterboxing or pillar-boxing bars

The aspect ratio of the original source video should always be maintained when it's uploaded: Uploaded videos should never include letterboxing or pillarboxing bars.

The YouTube player automatically adds black bars so that videos are displayed correctly without cropping or stretching, whatever the size of the video or the player. For example, the player will automatically add vertical bars (pillarboxing) to 4:3 videos in the new 16:9 widescreen player size. If the player is re-sized (when embedded on another website for example) the same process takes place, so that 16:9 videos are letterboxed (black bars top and bottom) when the player is sized to 4:3, for example. Similarly, anamorphic videos will be automatically letterboxed when shown in either 16:9 or 4:3 sized players. The player can only do this if the native aspect ratio of the video is maintained.

If letterboxing is added to a video before it is uploaded (to create a 4:3 video from a 16:9 master for example), the widescreen player will add pillarbox bars too, resulting in black bars all around the video (windowboxing) and a bad viewing experience (see the diagram below).

How to do it (Click to enlarge the picture)


How not to do it (Click to enlarge the picture)

* High definition is recommend

With new video formats developed and HD supports, YouTube offers the option to view video in high definition, such as 1080p, as long as the video you uploaded to YouTube is in high definition. HD video is the preferred format which results YouTube videos of the highest quality currently available.

* Frame Rate

The video frame rate should be the same as the original where possible - up-sampling from a 24fps original can cause judder artifacts for example. For film sources a 24 fps or 25 fps progressive master yields the best results while videos that have had a re-sampling transfer process applied - such as Telecine pulldown - often result in a lower quality video.

* Testing

Since there is no facility to re-upload videos, it's important to test your audio and video quality are satisfactory before you release your video publicly onto YouTube. Once a video becomes popular, the number of views, user ratings, user comments and other community data, cannot be transferred if another, higher quality version of the same video is uploaded. Make sure you get it right!

YouTube Uploading Tips for Video Editing Tools on Apple

If your video uploaded to YouTube is in high definition, YouTube will offers the option to view the video in high definition, such as 1080p resolution. Online video in high definition is good for both uploader and YouTube, and will be more and more popular in the future.

*You can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader to download normal YouTube videos to your computer. The paid version of Leawo YouTube Downloader can download high definition videos from YouTube.*

Some of the users may have these questions: How to upload videos in high definition to YouTube? How to use video editing tools to optimize the video for uploading to YouTube?

Below tips are for the Apple users as they use the video editing tools for YouTube uploads.

If you're a Quicktime Pro, Finalcut Pro, or iMovies user, check out the following tips on how to export your video files and get the best results out of uploading to YouTube and the transcoding of your files.

* iMovie:
File -> Export -> Compress movie for: Expert Settings -> Share -> Export: Movie to QuickTime Movie -> Options
* Finalcut Pro:
File -> Export -> Using Quicktime Conversion -> Options
* QuickTime Pro:
File -> Export -> Export: Movie to QuickTime Movie -> Options

In the Options box:

1. In the Video section set the following parameters:
* Compression Type: H.264
* Frame Rate: 30
* Data Rate: Automatic
(if you choose to restrict the Data Rate, make sure to choose the highest value acceptable to you - more bits = better quality)
* Key Frames: Automatic
* Frame Reording: Unchecked

2. In the Video section click "Size":
Dimensions: Set this to the original size of your video (Note: HD resolutions preferred- 1280x720 or 1920x1080)

3. In the "Prepare for internet Streaming" section:
Select the "Prepare for internet Streaming" and choose "Fast Start" from the drop-down menu.

4. In the Audio section, make sure that the audio codec is AAC. Always use AAC as the preferred audio codec.

5. Once you've made all of these selections, click the "OK" button to save your preferences.

6. Add a title to the video file and click the "Save" button to save your edited version of your movie. Your project will then be exported and be ready to upload to YouTube.

Note:
The tips in green are important. Please make sure you format your files accordingly.

YouTube Rentals Beta - How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part Two)

How to Become a YouTube Partner Part One - Benefits of YouTube Partner


The YouTube Rentals Beta I'm going to introduce is a pay-to-view model on YouTube. It provides content owners a new way to generate revenue from their home-made videos on the site. YouTube Rentals allows partners the flexibility to benefit from a variety of videos, complete control over their video content and pioneering use of the world's largest online video community.

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Currently, the YouTube Rentals Beta service is available only to the content owners in the US.

Want your content on YouTube be available for people to rent? You can Apply Now.

Create the best rental experience

From the YouTube Rentals service, partners can get unprecedented flexibility and control over monetization, marketing, and distribution for online video.

• Full control of your rights, dissemination of time, rental prices and lease.
• You can choose to provide some content via the ad-supported model or make some free content for promotional purposes, to maximize your control over profit, marketing and distribution strategies.
• Try using different prices, service time and the lease to improve the attractiveness of a specific video.
• You can grow your audience on YouTube, learn what they like to watch, and tailor your content offering by tracking view trends.

Expand your audience and profit

If you are a YouTube partner, you will be able to benefit from this new revenue opportunities, and expand your influence via the world's largest online video community.

• Learn a new way to distribute and earn profit from your online content. Create a new revenue stream by making video archived, offline video, or new videos available for rent online.
• To communicate directly with your audience, announce new uploaded content or offline published content.
• Exposure to a large audience. YouTube is the largest online video site and the third largest site in the world. （comScore，2009）

If you are already a YouTube partner and still have a question, you can go to the YouTube Rental Support page.

How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part Three) - Qualifications & FAQ

How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part One) - Benefits of YouTube Partner

If you have quality original videos and expanding audience on YouTube, you can apply for a YouTube partner to earn money from the plan.

Benefits of YouTube partner
YouTube is the biggest video sharing website in the world. Its traffic is much more than its competitors. (Leawo Free YouTube Downloader is a perfect tool to download and convert videos from YouTube and other websites, click here to read its manual.)

Being a YouTube partner has the following benefits listed below:

1. Revenue

As a YouTube partner, you will be able to enjoy opportunities to create revenue.

• Earn money from the embedded advertisement on your video and advertisement beside your video.

• Share income from your video rental.

• Gain the opportunies of co-marketing and branded entertainment with top brand advertiser.

• Use your own marketing channel to sell your own advertisement

2. Video statistics analytics

Use YouTube's Insight analytics tools to optimize your existing content and create more targeted content to satisfy your audience and advertisers.

• Learn more characteristics of your audience and what they are watching.

• Learn more about how your audience find your video.

• Learn more about how are you and your competitors doing in terms of competition.

• Learn what content you have is the most popular & engaging.

• Tells you where your video is really successful, and where it is not good enough at a video level.

3. Protection

YouTube can protect both of your video content and brand.

• Protects the integrity of your brand through the branded channel options available only to partners.

• In addition, YouTube offers many Content Management tools for copyright protection that anyone may use, regardless of whether they are in a partnership with YouTube.

• Rental of your videos are delivered via secure streaming way, to avoid downloading by other people.

4. Video quality

YouTube will process your uploaded video in reliable way, and display them on YouTube at the highest resolution as far as possible.

• To those videos which are hot and attractive, YouTube will offer HD version accordingly.

• Offers aspect ration of 16:9 for video players.

• Join the ranks of YouTube's other high-quality video providers already in the Partner Program.

How to Become a YouTube Partner Part Two - YouTube Rental Beta

How to Become a YouTube Partner (Part Three) - Qualifications & FAQ

Supported video / audio formats for uploading to YouTube

YouTube accepts a wide range of video formats uploaded by users. The below video formats are all accepted by YouTube. Some of them have the best visual effect on YouTube. You can take a look at them and tune your video formats for YouTube.

List of some well-known formats which YouTube supports:

WebM files (Vp8 video codec and Vorbis Audio codec)
.MPEG4, 3GPP and MOV files - (typically supporting h264 and mpeg4 video codecs and AAC audio codec)
.AVI (Many cameras output this format - typically the video codec is MJPEG and audio is PCM)
.MPEGPS (Typically supporting MPEG2 video codec and MP2 audio)
.WMV
.MP4
.FLV (Adobe - FLV1 video codec, MP3 audio)

YouTube accepts all of the above video formats uploaded from users. To most users, we find that the below video settings have the best visual effect:
Video format: H.264, MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 recommended
Aspect ratio: Original screen aspect ration without top or bottom black border, for example, 4:3, 16:9
Resolution: 640x360 (16:9) or 480x360 (4:3) Recommended
Audio format: MP3 or AAC Recommended
FPS (Frame per second): 30
Video length limit: 15 minutes (2 to 3 minutes recommended)
Video size limit: 2 GB

Tips:
a. If you think your video won't be accepted by YouTube, you can convert it to video format MPEG4 with audio format MP3 to get the best visual effect.

b. To convert any video format to the 'YouTube supported video formats', you can use some free or paid video converter. Good Freeware for this purpose are FormatFactory or FFMPEG. The former is graphic user interface, while the latter is command line user interface.

c. By default, Windows Movie Maker will save your video item as . MSWMM file. MSWMM is project file, which is not accepted by YouTube on uploading. To upload your Windows Movie Maker video to YouTube, please choose 'save it to my computer' option to save your video project as an accepted video format, and then you can upload the saved video to YouTube.

d. To download videos from YouTube, you can use Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, which is free and clean.

Is it illegal to download YouTube video?

YouTube becomes the biggest video database in the world nowdays. There are substantial of videos on YouTube. YouTube now exceeds 2 billion views a day and 24 hours of video uploaded every minute. I'm sure a lot of you guys want to download some YouTube videos. Now the problem comes: Is it legal or not to download YouTube video? Is it legal to upload videos to YouTube?

There are different viewpoints toward these problems. Of course, YouTube thinks that it's illegal to download video from itself. Here is YouTube's answer to the question in terms of their Terms of Service -

You shall not download any Content unless you see a "download" or similar link displayed by YouTube on the Service for that Content. You shall not copy, reproduce, distribute, transmit, broadcast, display, sell, license, or otherwise exploit any Content for any other purposes without the prior written consent of YouTube or the respective licensors of the Content. YouTube and its licencors reserve all rights not expressly granted in and to the Service and the Content.

However, this answer is very impracticable and ambiguous. For example, They do not imply it's illegal to download using third-party software like Leawo Free YouTube Downloader, only that the site provides no method to download videos. Second example, if I download YouTube videos just for watching them off line on my own computer or iPod, and not caught with illegal videos by the copyright owner or YouTube, then I can still download video from YouTube.

If copyrighted video was uploaded illegally, then it would be certainly illegal to download it. If you are caught with illegal videos, the penalties will cost much more than if you had just bought the item in the first place.

If you mean to distribute, broadcast, or even sell the copyrighted YouTube video to others without permission from video owner and YouTube, then it's surely illegal. For example, you can't share it with others or post it on your blog or Facebook page without permission, or you'll be banned by YouTube from their services for breaking the EULA terms. Or worst of all you could end up facing criminal copyright infringement charges that have substantial fines and possible jail time (at least in the United States). Depending on who your ISP is there could be issues there as well with their terms, you could get expelled from school or college if using their networks as a student, or get fired from work if using an employer's internet for copyright infringement.

The last thing I want to say is that a lot of people have downloaded videos from YouTube to watch them off line on their compuers or protable electronic devices, and they never get caught. Just remember that you won't reuse, distribute or sell the downloaded YouTube videos, you'll never get caught.

YouTube history, events, statisctics

The below illustration shows the history, memorable moments and some main figure of YouTube.

The data in this graphic is based on the report by website-monitoring.com.

Reshipment from Flash video player blog

YouTube Buzz Words in 2009

This post is gonna show you the most popular words on YouTube. These words are very very hot in a particular month in the past year 2009.

Global:

January： inauguration

American new president Obama.

February： christian bale

He is a Hollywood movie star.

March： the climb

It's the idol singer Miley Cyrus's MTV.

April： susan boyle

She made a stunning performance in Britain's Got Talent 2009.

May： pacquiao vs hatton

It was a boxing match.

June： michael jackson thriller

July： michael jackson

The King of Pop.

August： usain bolt

He is a Jamaican sprinter, Top Male Athlete.

September： kanye west

A famous rapper and music maker.

October： paranormal activity

It's a movie name.

November： bad romance

It's Lady gaga's song.

December: tiger woods

He is a famous golf player.


United States：

January： obama inauguration

February： on a boat

It is a single song in the first album of The Lonely Island

March： watchmen

It's a movie name.

April： susan boyle

She made a stunning performance in Britain's Got Talent 2009.

May： pacquiao

He is a boxer.

June： michael jackson thriller

A fomous song of the King of Pop.

July： wedding

I don't know why this word was so popular. Maybe you can tell me:)

August： send it on

It's a song sang by Disney's 6 popular idol stars.

September： kanye west

A famous rapper and music maker.

October： paranormal activity

It's a movie name.

November： adam lambert

The most closely watched and controversial competitor in American's Got Talent.

December： tiger woods

He is a famous golf player.

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Top 5 Youtube videos in 2009

In the list of Youtube's Top 5 views videos in 2009, Susan Boyle's first amazing permance in Britain's Got Talent claimed the No.1 spot, with 120 million views.

Chad Hurley, the Founder of YouTube, said, "From the new talent singer first appearance on the world stage, to the new couple's hug and dance in the hallway in their wedding, YouTube offers platform for everyone to share these common experiences and important moments together, and moved millions of viewers around the world."

Top 5 Youtube Videos in 2009

1. Susan Boyle's first show on Britain's Got Talent 2009, with more than 120 million views
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2. David After Dentist, with more than 37 million views

3. JK Wedding Entrance Dance, with more than 33 million views


4. New Moon Movie Trailer, with more than 31 million views

5. Evian Roller Babies, with more than 27 million views

Top 5 music video in 2009:

1. Pitbull - I Know You Want Me, viewed more than 82 million times

2. Miley Cyrus - The Climb, viewed more than 64 million times

3. Miley Cyrus - Party In The U.S.A, viewed more than 54 million times
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4. The Lonely Island - I'm On A Boat, viewed more than 48 million times

5. Keri Hilson - Knock You Down, viewed more than 35 million times

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Top Ten YouTube videos: the highest one with 186 million views

ReadWriteWeb, the famous United States blog named a "Top Ten YouTube videos" list in January this year. "Hari's comedy act" headed in the list with 186 million times views.

These top ten videos are as follows:

1. Hari's comedy act (186,361,277 views by January)

2. Charlie bit my finger - again! (148,757,751 views by January, 188,307,246 views by now)

3. Evolution of Dance (134,412,139 views by January, 143,163,641 views by now)

4. Miley Cyrus - 7 Things - Official Music Video (108,577,069 views by January, 118,135,172 views by now)

5. Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead Terroris (104,013,553 views by January, 111,796,626 views by now)

6. Hahaha - Small daring boy (103,262,937 views by January, 118,908,247 views by now)

7. Lo que tú Quieras Oír (99,291,111 views, 100,699,985 views by now)

8. Pitbull - I Know You Want Me (92,408,735 views by January, 119,630,385 views by now)

9. Britains Got Talent 2009 (85,126,780 views by January, 92,375,341 views, embed code not permitted)
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10. Timbaland – Apologize (81,299,096 views by January, 85,274,802 views by now)

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YouTube brief introduction

This is my first post about YouTube on this blog. Hope you will like it.

YouTube is a video sharing site established in the United States. It allows users to upload and share video clips. It is a website for users to upload, view and share video clips. It has become a leader among the same type of sites, and created a number of Internet celebrities and stimulated online creativity. By May 2008, YouTube serves up about 4.2 billion video clips.

Basic information:
Type: Google subsidiary
Established Date: February 2005
Headquarters Location: San Bruno, California City (San Mateo)
Important people:
Chad Hurley, founder and CEO
Steve Chen, founder and CTO(Chief Technology Officer)
Jawed Karim, Founder and Consultant
Slogan: Broadcast Yourself.
Industry: Internet Services
Products: video sharing service
Web site: youtube.com

On October 9, 2006, Google Inc. purchased YouTube for 1.65 billion, and reached agreement with Universal Music, SonyBMG, Warner Music, CBS on content licensing and protection, to let their artists’ music and videos be included in original content posted on YouTube’s site.

Introduction:
As currently the most successful, most powerful and influential online video service provider, YouTube is serving a billion views a day worldwide, provides high quality online video services on transmission, distribution, display and browsing for thousands of users worldwide.

With strong technology support, YouTube supports a variety of video content formats uploading. Videos uploaded to YouTube by standard account holders are limited to 10 minutes in length and a file size of 100M.

However, the development of YouTube is not satisfactory. YouTube has to bear substantial costs of video bandwidth, and is not given the expected large number of advertising revenue. Now YouTube ads are becoming more and more intrusive. Chad Hurley and Steven Chen have felt impotent.

Hulu vs YouTube
Hulu is clearly less than YouTube on size, however, most of the videos could bring profit for Hulu , while only 3% of videos can bring profit for YouTube. That is only 126 million of YouTube videos can be used to advertise, and this figure is not much more than Hulu’s.

Despite these challenges, YouTube is still the most popular video website.

And so far, YouTube online video rental business has been quietly started three months ago.

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