Wednesday, September 17, 2008

How to get a massive amount of views on YouTube:

...put up a video of Tina Fey impersonating Sarah Palin on SNL. The daily "most viewed" page has been flooded with the short sketch since Sunday morning. I'm surprised the videos haven't been removed. Usually, NBC is pretty strict on its content being on YouTube.

Remember Lazy Sunday? The sketch with Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell was incredibly popular. It was also removed from YouTube about as soon as you could upload it. It was a short SNL sketch that everyone seemed to love. But NBC would only let you watch it on their website, which isn't quite as convenient as YouTube. They struck down the free publicity they were receiving on YouTube. I understand where they are coming from: the sketch is popular so you want people to only watch it on your site, where you will be making money off ad revenue. But wouldn't you want to open up as many people as you can to SNL? Seeing a short, funny sketch might inspire people to start watching SNL again...just a thought.

There is my YouTube/NBC rant for the day.