Viral Video Chart attempts to track the most viral of viral video by looking at number of times they are embedded and linked to from web sites. Viral Video Chart currently rates videos from YouTube, MySpace, and Google Video.
Here is how they do it:
“We scan several million blogs a day to see which online videos people are talking about the most. We count the number of times each video is linked to and the number of times each video is embedded. Every morning, after we’ve had a cup of coffee, we publish a list of the 25 videos that generated the most buzz over the previous day. We reckon this is a pretty good yardstick of what’s hot and what’s not.
At the moment we only look for references to videos on the three most influential video sharing sites: YouTube, Google Video and MySpace. We tried looking for references to videos on some other sites for a while, but nothing ever made the top 25 so we stopped.”
The folks at Viral Video Chart then serve it up in a very clean black and white interface to make sure that the short-attention span video clip generation will have no problem finding and clicking on the video they want.
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