If you just go by YouTube’s all-time most watched videos
list, you might think Evolution of Dance
at 118 million views would win the most popular crown.
video ever, says Visible Measures. In fact, singing sensation Susan Boyle
appears on track to grab that title soon. The
first ever compilation of the most viewed viral videos in the history of the
Web.
Visible Measures places rapper Soulja Boy’s video “Crank Dat”
as the most viewed with 356 million views, the Twilight movie trailer second
with 265 million, and Mariah Carey’s ‘Touch My Body” third at 230 million.
If you just went by the YouTube rankings, “Crank That” would only have
51 million views, only 14% of its true total
difference between the Visible Measures rankings and YouTube, not surprisingly, is Visible Measures tracks all viral placements across the Web, including those on
YouTube and other sites such as Metacafe, DailyMotion, Veoh, Yahoo, Hulu and
others. Visible Measures also counts views that videos receive on their “home
sites,” such as the Twilight views accumulated on the official site
“Twilightthemovie.com.”
Visible Measures tracked data for this list across more than 21,000 unique
video placements and more than 3 billion total views.
It’s worth noting that Boyle is due
to crack the top three or more very soon. She’s already fifth with 186 million views. “[She] will likely reach #4
next and then #3 a few weeks thereafter. She is, without question, the fastest
growing viral video phenomenon of all time,” the company wrote.
video how the company’s measurement service works. Andy caught up with him last June in New York.
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