The world's most popular video hosting service celebrates its 8th anniversary this year. More than a billion users visit YouTube every month and watch over 4 billion hours of video.
In today's top ten we have included the most popular videos during the existence of YouTube... It is noteworthy that it is almost impossible to predict the popularity of a video - it does not depend on the quality or on the outstanding plot.
The jump from a height of 39 thousand meters was broadcast on YouTube in live... During the event, 4 world records were registered, including the most high speed free fall. More than 8 million people watched the live broadcast. The video then garnered 31 million views.
9. Walk off the Earth
Canadian musical group posted a cover version of the song Gotye Somebody That I Used to Know on YouTube. The five musicians playing one acoustic guitar amassed 50 million views in the first month. And soon the number of views even exceeded 140 million.
8. Rap battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney
7. Pitbull, I know you want me
The video, which is not particularly outstanding, has collected over 170 million views. This is really proof that it is extremely difficult to predict the popularity of a particular video.
6. Call Me Maybe
The favorite of the youth of the whole planet, Justin Bieber posted a video on YouTube, in which the soundtrack of the song of the Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen sounded. As a result, fans of Bieber began to search for the original, and Jepsen's clip has collected 212 million views.
5. Kony 2012
In May 2012, a video about the leader of God's Resistance Army of Uganda D. Kony appeared on YouTube. The video is authored by Invisible Children, which has been trying for many years to stop a protracted military conflict. The shocking video immediately gained scandalous popularity on the Internet.
4. Sneezing of a panda cub
The cutest video in the world has become practically a YouTube classic. The video of how the baby scared the panda mom with his sneeze has been viewed 160 million times in the six and a half years since the video was posted.
3. Charlie bit my finger again
This video is the most popular among non-musical ones. The kid who younger brother bites on the finger, has attracted the attention of the whole world. Since May 22, 2007, the story has been viewed 522 million times, and it continues to be popular.
2. I'm at the zoo
This video is famous, first of all, because it became the first one posted on YouTube. One of the founders of the video hosting service, Javid Karim, posted a 17-second video on the network, which shows him standing near the cages with elephants at the zoo in San Diego.
1. Gangnam style
The music video by South Korean pop artist Psy has broken all records for the number of views. In 10 months it has been viewed more than 1.5 billion times. In addition, there are hundreds of Gangnam style parodies circulating on the Internet, which also attract a lot of attention.
YouTube has hundreds of millions of videos, with thousands more added every day. But only a few are really popular, which have been watched by tens of millions of people. We present you the ten most popular videos on YouTub with over half a billion views, where 9 out of 10 entries are clips of famous artists.
10. Michel Telo - Ai Se Eu Te Pego - Oficial (Assim voce me mata)
The tenth place is occupied by the Brazilian singer Michel Telo, whose song Ai Se Eu Te Pego scored 535.775.621 views.
9.Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
The video for Bad Romance of one of the most extravagant singers of our time, Lady Gaga, received 548.339.083 views.
8. Shakira - Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)
In eighth place again is the video for the song Waka Waka, the irresistible Shakira, who became the official song of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, with 572.306.
7. PSY - GENTLEMAN M / V
The record holder of our rating is the Korean rapper PSY, who managed to shoot videos that are in the top ten most popular videos on YouTube twice. His Klpi GENTLEMAN M / V, as always done in his unique fun style, has collected 585,464,050 views.
6. LMFAO - Party Rock Anthem ft. Lauren Bennett, GoonRock
The video, shot by the hip-hop team with the participation of English dancer and singer Lauren Bennett, has collected 596,424,814 views. Melodious catchy melodies and a bunch of dancing people became the key to the success of the video.
5. Charlie bit my finger - again!
The only non-staged video collected 600.471. 686 views. The older brother decided to put his finger in the younger's mouth, for which he paid, he began to chew them and bit down quite hard. If the younger is amused by the situation, then the elder even screams with fear when his fingers begin to chew.
4. Eminem - Love The Way You Lie ft. Rihanna
The video, which featured two titans of the American music scene, one of the best rappers of our time, Eminem, and the pop star Rihanna, was viewed 621,726,388 times.
3. Jennifer Lopez - On The Floor ft. Pitbull
The music video “On The Floor ft. Pitbull, "from orchestra man Jennifer Lopez, a successful singer, actress, producer and designer, has amassed 706,556,936 views.
2. Justin Bieber - Baby ft. Ludacris
The youth idol Justin Bieber climbed into second place with his video for the song Baby ft. Ludacris viewed 932.097.664 times. There is nothing surprising here, probably every girl under the age of eighteen watched the video several times on the singer's pretty face in the video.
1. PSY - GANGNAM STYLE
On September 8th, the second-ever music video managed to collect two billion views on video hosting.
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The video for the song See You Again by American rapper Wiz Khalifa and pop artist Charlie Puth became the second most popular video on YouTube, having collected over two billion views. The song is dedicated to the actor Paul Walker, the star of the Fast and Furious films, who died in 2013. The video was posted on YouTube on April 6, 2015, in time for the release of Fast and Furious 7, the last movie in which Walker appeared.
To date, there are only two videos on YouTube, which managed to gain more than two billion views, while the leader of the video for the song See you again has not yet been able to get around. The record holder for views is still the Gangnam Style video by the South Korean musician Psy. He collected two billion back in June 2014, now this figure is 2.6 billion views.
Two billion views is a lot. As of August 2016, almost half of the world's population - 3.5 billion people - use the Internet. Even if we consider that many users have watched the same video several times, the figure is still impressive. We remembered a few more popular videos, which I manage to collect at least 1.5 million views in two or three years.
The third place in popularity after Gangnam Style and See You Again is the video for the song Uptown Funk by British DJ Mark Ronson and American musician Bruno Mars. The video, published on November 19, 2014, has collected over 1.8 billion views.
On the fourth line is Justin Bieber's video for the song Sorry, which has collected 1.79 million views since October 22, 2015.
Taylor Swift's music video for the song Blank Space closes the top five - 1.75 million views. The video was published on YouTube on November 10, 2014.
The sixth most popular video was the video for the song Adele Hello - 1.7 billion views. Like Bieber's video, the video was published on October 22, 2015.
Seventh place - again Taylor Swift, this time with the song Shake It Off. The video with ballerinas, released on August 18, 2014, was watched by 1.62 billion video hosting users.
The next most popular video for the song Lean On is a joint project of the duo Major Lazer and the Danish singer MØ, which has managed to collect 1.6 billion views since March 22, 2015.
In ninth place was not music video and cartoon. This is the 17th episode of the animated series Masha and the Bear, the episode is called Masha plus porridge. 1.593 million views were collected in 4.5 years - the cartoon appeared on YouTube on January 31, 2012.
The top ten most popular videos are closed by the Spanish version of the video for the song Bailando by Enrique Iglesias, which appeared on the Web on April 11, 2014. To date, the video has been viewed by 1.59 million users. Moreover, English version turned out to be not so popular (199.5 thousand views since June 2014).
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2 votesHello dear readers of the Start-Luck blog. Are you already the owner of your channel and even realized that you can earn money on YouTube, but want to increase your income? Then this article is for you.
I'll tell you everything I know about how to get views on YouTube. You will learn more than five ways. Some of them are free to use, while others require some investment.
I highly advise you to find out everything possible methods that can be applied. I will not fool you with long texts, spend 5 minutes studying complete list... To use something or not, you decide in the process of work, but by at least you will own all the information. Don't limit your own possibilities.
Perhaps not now, but a little later, you will want to expand the boundaries and in this case, take up a detailed study of one of available ways... Let's get started?
Optimization
This is a very cool way to promote. During publication, you consciously come up with a title for your video based on search queries, prescribe special tags and make a description that will bring new visitors to your channel.
How does optimization affect the number of views? It's very simple. Your video appears in search results Yandex and Google. Now many people first of all want to watch videos on a certain topic; there are even special tabs of the same name in search engines. Don't miss the opportunity to be on the list of the best and take the first place in the search results.
I can recommend you the book by Kirill Zhukovsky " YouTube. Way to success ". In it you will find a lot of tips not only about optimization, but also get recommendations for creating top videos, learn and.
This information is also on my blog, but the book will undoubtedly have a number of advantages. Unfortunately, my time, like other bloggers, is limited. If I write very long texts, then I just won't have any readers.
Optimization will also help you get on the list " Related Videos", You probably ran into it. When a person finishes watching one clip, he is offered a whole scattering of similar ones. It remains only to choose which one is of particular interest to him. You can also learn how to hook the viewer in the book that I advised you a little earlier.
Social media pages
You may have read my article on how to build. Yes, on personal page you can make money too. However, now we are not interested in this, but in views. If you are, then your friends see it, which means the number of those who saw it increases.
Nobody forbids you to create several accounts, look for new subscribers, and then use them to increase your profits. By the way, it is possible that your friends will also repost records, which means that the audience will double.
You can ask some of your especially popular friends to repost. It's fair and probably free. If you have contacts popular people Vkontakte, you can contact them and ask them to post a video on their page for money. I don’t think it will cost you very much. Try it.
Groups and communities
Another good way to increase your views is. You can publish your videos there too. People will have the ability to follow you on both sites. You increase the chances of popularity.
There are those who constantly sit on Vkontakte and watch videos right here, without even paying attention to the popular video hosting. You will be credited with all the views these people have made through another popular network.
Other social networks
By the way, now I was talking about Vkontakte, but you should understand that there are also Odnoklassniki, as well as Facebook. Nobody bothers you to create an additional profile in these in social networks... Both will be more beneficial.
There are many foreigners on Facebook who willingly subscribe and become friends of our compatriots. If you create videos with no audio or subtitles, they can also become interested in the channel and become ardent fans of your art.
In order to make money on the Internet, many users launch channels on YouTube.
The idea is good, only without high-quality videos and competent promotion, you will never be able to make a lot of money. Content plays a key role, and by posting anything, you run the risk of getting lost in millions of related videos.
No entertainment video received the same number of views as those of the stars. Although there are plenty of examples when you accidentally managed to win the hearts of millions.
What kind of video to shoot to get a lot of views?
Every video blogger wonders which videos are getting the most views. If we start from various TOPs, then we can draw some conclusions.
- News - as soon as an event thunders all over the country or even the whole world, videos related to it begin to become popular. You don't need to go far for examples, go to the list of popular videos, you will find a bunch of such videos there.
- Celebrities - everything related to famous people attracts attention. Some video bloggers deliberately use other people's fame, add videos, revealing secrets, digging in dirty laundry or collecting dirt.
- Children - were, are and will be the most interesting characters in the videos. Remember how many videos you saw with children, the same anecdote about a cook or a girl with a surprised face, about whom millions of memes have been created.
- Show - Many video bloggers run their own show. The topics are very diverse, from reviews of other people's videos to assessing food delivery to your home. Come up with something interesting or put on a show for your city.
- Social projects - people like them too, as they have one zest called justice. Now they are being launched more and more often, they supposedly have a deep meaning and people are opening their eyes to obvious problems.
To add a video that will have every chance to take TOP places by the number of views, you need not only to come up with fresh ideas, but also to analyze, due to which other authors managed to achieve fame.
Bloggers on YouTube earnings are very different as they put in different efforts. Some do not try to learn how to record high-quality videos at all, they do not rely on statistics and do not study the success of other authors.
Do not join the ranks of losers, try to upload only those videos that have the potential to become popular.
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