Online Video Popularity is now being measured, according to ResearchBUZZ, by WorldTV. While browsing I found this excellent video of John Colbert talking about WikiPidia (one of my favorite subjects and I’ve done two paintings on WikiPedia).
According to ResearchBuzz:
"WorldTV has announced that it is starting Internet TV Charts, a way of tracking the most popular video across YouTube, Google Video, Digg, and VideoSift. New charts will be released every Sunday at 7pm. (There will be editorials in place to filter out “objectionable content” and highly-viewed but low-rated content. Unfortunately there will also be a filter to remove non-English content; how about some international and non-English charts?) In the future there will aso be daily charts for popular videos.
At the moment you can see the charts at http://www.worldtv.com/charts. The charts include top ten lists from the aforementioned YouTube, Google Video, Digg, and VideoSift. YouTube and GoogleVideo have thumbnails (that are teeny and don’t do much good) while the other two sources don’t. Despite the fact that WorldTV is trying to filter objectionable content, they do warn that some the content is not suitable for work, home, etc.
This chart does simplify things for me as I don’t go onto YouTube and Google Video every day to see what’s popular - what’s generating Buzz, etc. I’m wondering if they should publish this twice a week - things on the internet move really fast and the weeky cycle is based more on older media like TV, where it made sense to broadcast a show weekly - but it makes less sense in the internet work which is much more "On Demand".
BTW, in case you did not see it, here’s my two WikiPedia paintings side by side (the sketch first and then the painting below it). The Oil Pastel sketch was 12 x 18 inches while the painting below is, I think, 3 feet by 5 feet.
And yes, I guess I am misspelling WikiPedia - what else is new? Maybe that’s part of the Art of it - since you can edit the info in Wikipedia to say what ever you want - maybe I just am spelling Wikipedia as Wikepedia as part of my paintings message. Or maybe I don’t spell well - or maybe both are true.
