We've spent a lot of time throughout our 12-day holiday countdown looking at videos that were extremely popular in the U.S. or in the U.S. and the rest of the world. But what about the videos that were big around the world, but weren't big in the United States?
Using video data from each country, we isolated 10 music videos that made other most-viewed-of-the-year lists outside of the United States. There were a lot of great and very popular videos that didn't make it, but here's what we came up with:
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• Check out the rest of our 2010 lists for the top 10s in:
Twice each day we scan our YouTube metrics as well as websites on the cutting edge of internet culture to discover the most buzzed about videos.
Chimney Intruder
Obama Calls UConn Coach
Winter Wonderland
Let It Snow
One of today's Most Shared videos is this clip of viral video star Antoine Dodson performing a reworked version of his classic "Bed Intruder."
Footage of University of Connecticut women's basketball coach Geno Auriemma getting a call following a record breaking win from President Obama mid-press conference is among our Trending Videos today.
A serene low altitude flight over snow covered rural town. As seen on Gizmodo.
This 10-screen installation was part of an interactive holiday card put out by Driver Digital. See more YouTube Holiday cards.
Ok, we can't predict the future. But using YouTube's search data, we can see what 2011 videos and topics people are interested in this month.
To start: if you live in California or Virginia, you're more likely to be among those looking for 2011-related videos than other states, as those are the states where "2011" has the highest expressed interest in YouTube search.
In video, the top search term associated with "2011" this month is "trailers." So what 2011 releases are the most anticipated based on searches in the past few weeks?
Fast Five
Thor
Transformers 3
Scream 4
Perhaps the most-searched trailer so far is one for Twilight: Breaking Dawn, which, sadly, has yet to be produced/released.
As the holiday season has commenced, we've noticed an interesting trend this year in video holiday cards created by YouTube users. Take a look at the search interest chart for "holiday cards" on YouTube spanning back to October of 2008. There's always been a sizeable spike around Christmas, but that spike has nearly doubled this year compared to last. (Searches for "christmas card" are showing a similar pattern.)
First, there's the e-card variety that are meant to be shared with friends and family. Video e-cards posted by comedian/puppeteer Jeff Dunham (example above) have drawn over 700,000 views so far this season, and others by Grolsch and BMW have also been popular.
Then, there are the holiday cards being created and posted by different businesses and other groups. We highlighted one of the more inventive ones by Klick marketing and comms firm on Tuesday's PM 4 @ 4, but there are plenty of others by everyone from the Missouri Department of Conservation to Mr. Peanut. First Round Capital put out an Old Spice-inspired one.
Other users, like kwernerdesign, have also posted craft tutorials on how to make pretty impressive versions of those old 20th Century "paper" greeting cards.
