Comments on: Old Spice Guy's popularity on Twitter charted

By: John Munoz

John Munoz — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:17:47 +0000

Yeah, that’s unbelievable, 180 videos.

I’d love to get my hands on the YouTube information for analysis, but their API doesn’t look like it’s data extraction friendly.

Thanks for taking the time to comment. Don’t be a stranger, I’m a fan of your work. I like what you’ve done with Lyza. I stayed away from it after Stephen Few ripped it a while ago. It’s good to see folks go against the grain and turn out quality stuff.

By: Joe Mako

Joe Mako — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 10:30:55 +0000

From reading your first sentence, did you know that he made over 180 of these videos, most not to celebrities?

See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx39t_EikbI

ReadWriteWeb had a good write up on how it was done: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/how_old_spice_won_the_internet.php

I am sure YouTube is having a great time with the analysis of the viewing trends of those videos.