"A big day" because of the Best Week Ever

Well, we had some excitement last week. For a youtube video to be popular, sometimes it takes personal determination such as, say, submitting your youtube in a contest. Other times, however, it's up to random chance. A writer of a popular web site clicks around youtube on a hunt for content - possibly to support a point, or simply to provide a collection of entertainment. Darius first felt the bump when his Mantech vid was featured on toplessrobot last April. Most recently, my Blossom Theme Song on ukelele was featured on VH1's Best Week Ever site on a list: 13 Awesome TV Show Theme Song Covers.

Now usually, I'll start to get an idea that a vid has been discovered from comments on the "found" vid. I get email notifications every time there's a new comment on a vid. The notifications are a good wet thumb in the air to detect if the wind's blowing strongly in a certain direction.

Still, not every system is perfect. As a result, I'll check my Insight page, usually every day or so, to see if there are any surprises. And last Wednesday (April 1st as it turns out, yet I never had the thought that youtube was putting one over on me), the Insight report looked promising - a steady slope upwards.

Usually my views per day hover around 200, but this time it was skyrocketing. Given the context of the embed -- One embed out of 13, on a site with several daily updates to keep the highly-stimulated audience's attention -- I figured I would have a classic spike, hitting a peak, then sliding down again.

To a certain degree, that was the behavior: There didn't seem to be a lot of click-throughs to other vids or to this site. However, even after the decline, my mean views per day has been hovering around 400, definitely higher than usual. This may be an indicator that, when you're a potential flash-in-the-pan, you'll experience 1) a lot of buzz 2) a sharp decline 3) a permeating low level of buzz for a length of time 4) a now gradual decline to the previous numbers.

As of now, Blossom is still on the top of the charts for views per day. I'm guessing that'll go down to its previous level, but who knows. Before all this happened, I believe it was was pretty low on the list, possibly not even making the initial Insight list report. It's hard to tell though, it could stay as a contender with Whistle Stop and Charlotte's Web.

Oh, and it did end up getting a few comments, though with some insider help :)