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58% Of YouTube’s Top Videos Are User-Made

58% Of YouTube’s Top Videos Are User-Made

By Piers Fawkes on July 23, 2006

On his blog Brain Sells, http://brainsells.blogspot.com/ Hashem Bajwa breaks down the top 100 videos on You Tube:

58 are consumer generated content
31 are music videos 4 are commercial ads (Sony Balls, VW Pimp My Auto)

3 are commercial virals (2 identical Nike videos, 1 Nintendo)

2 are movie trailers

2 are Asian candid camera shows

The top video has been viewed over 28,643,691 times and the 100th has been viewed over 1,543,402 times. [via Joseph Jaffe]

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