Turning left in Moscow -OR- the wonder of YouTube
Youtube amazes me. This summer while we where in Moscow I used our digital camera to capture a short ~40 second clip of a humorous traffic scene (which we actually saw many of.) I didn’t think to much of it until after giving our slide show to a few folks - the video was well received. I used iMovie to cut it up a bit and add some appropriate music and posted it to youtube to share with friends.. pretty much leaving it at that. Without any effort towards promoting the clip on my part the youtube community went to work.
Within 4 days, it had been viewed 5,000 times.. within 2 weeks, 20,000 times.. It’s been just over a month since it went online now and it’s now had move than 40,000 sets of eyes viewing it. While these numbers are insignificant compared to the hottest videos kicked around each day by youtube viewers, I’m still amazed that something that I put very little effort or thought into has managed to attract such an audience.
UPDATE: This clip has now been viewed well over 80,000 times.