AOL Pulls More Video Views Than YouTube

Takeaway: Don’t Ignore AOL for Viral Video

I’ve been working on a marketing campaign at Rassak Experience that includes several parody videos. The videos, as well as being hosted on the a microsite were also posted to YouTube and AOL Uncut.

We uploaded the videos on the same day with the same descriptions and the same tags. The graph below compares AOL views (red) with YouTube views (blue).

[Side Note:, We did try to post to both Google Video and Yahoo Video but had so many problems it wasn’t worth dealing with. Google had just acquired YouTube and uploading was broken. Once fixed, we had A/V sync issues with the Google encoder. At Yahoo, 4 videos posted immediately, the other 6 took up to 2 full days to appear.  When they did appear, 2 were broken and the rest were posted with a thumbnail of a girl in a bikini rather than a still from our own video so we deleted them.]

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