Watch this: Our top ten videos of 2008
The best viral videos of 2008 weren’t necessarily the ones that got the most page views, in my humble opinion. Or the list below would feature Fred - whose helium and sugar-fueled antics often make me want to chuck my dying laptop out the window - a music video, or Paris Hilton.
Here’s the final countdown, with more videos after the jump. While you’ve likely seen a few on the list, there should be a couple of surprises.
10. Pojemna paszcza - There’s a cookbook called A Man, A Can, A Plan. This guy took the title literally. Is that a sandwich or a Mountain Dew can or both? It garnered over 16.7 million views, with over 15 million on YouTube, making it the most popular (and disturbing) viral video of 2008.
9. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Note: this is 42 minutes long) - Quarterlife, the first web-based show to make it to network television, tanked, while online videos reigned supreme this year. But Internet musicals did better. Case in point: Fans of Joss Whedon’s Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog flooded the site and crashed its servers earlier this summer. Its success had a multi-pronged approach - the show can also be downloaded on iTunes, viewed on Hulu, and ordered on DVD. One of Dr. Horrible’s stars, Felicia Day, also made it big with her web-based series The Guild and scored a deal with Microsoft. Felicia, if you’re reading this, please e-mail me - I have VentureBeatnik Anthony Ha’s phone number for you.