https://googledata.org Everything Google: News, Products, Services, Content, Culture Fri, 10 Apr 2015 22:28:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 https://googledata.org/youtube/this-weeks-trends-the-president-egypt-and-90s-hip-hop/ https://googledata.org/youtube/this-weeks-trends-the-president-egypt-and-90s-hip-hop/#comments Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:58:00 +0000 YouTube Trends take a look at the most interesting videos and cultural phenomena on YouTube as they develop. We want take a moment to highlight some of what we've come across recently:

• We used the questions you asked of the President of the United States to create some unique word art.
  
  
• We tracked the biggest trends the week before the big game .
  
  
• We curated powerful footage from the protests in Egypt.
  
  
• We saw how a music video from 1995 still sees a bump in views every single month.
  
  
• We looked at on-the-scene weather footage from a snowstorm across the United States and a category 5 cyclone on the coast of Australia.
  
  
• We tried to figure out how a group of young dance students near Portland got popular all the way in South Korea.
  
  
• And we continued to highlight each day's top videos including this one of a University of Iowa student whose speech to the State House of Representatives became one of the week's Most Shared clips:

Check back every day for the latest about what's trending on YouTube at www.YouTube.com/Trends

Kevin Allocca, YouTube Trends Manager, recently watched "Taxista canta igual que Michael Jackson"

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• We discovered a new dance craze popping up in Taiwan called "Bobee."
  
  
• We tracked how the fan-anthem "Black and Yellow" as well as how parodies of that song have grown in popularity with the NFL playoffs kicking in.
  
  
• We enjoyed hip-hop from around the world.
  
  
• We collected reactions from comic book fans to the announcement of new Batman villains.
  
  
• We saw on-the-scene footage from the mudslides in Brazil as well as the unrest in the streets of Tunisia.
  
  
• We looked back at how the YouTube community responded in the week following the shooting in Tucson.
  
  
• And we examined how amateur weather reports were popping up in the southeast after a big winter storm. Among them was this tongue-in-cheek report that became one of the week's most-shared videos:

Check back every day for the latest about what's trending on YouTube at: www.YouTube.com/Trends

Kevin Allocca, YouTube Trends Manager, recently watched "60 Second Fight Club"

]]> https://googledata.org/youtube/this-weeks-trends-fan-anthems-new-dances/feed/ 0 https://googledata.org/youtube/this-weeks-trends-duets-floods-and-jersey-shore/ https://googledata.org/youtube/this-weeks-trends-duets-floods-and-jersey-shore/#comments Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:07:00 +0000 YouTube Trends take a look at the most interesting videos and cultural trends on YouTube as they develop. Right now, we want to highlight some of the cool stuff we've come across recently:

• We found evidence from around the country of a little known pants-less holiday.
  
  
• With major flooding in Queensland, Australia, we experienced some of it through amateur footage from on the ground.
  
  
• We went around the world to see top viewed public performances of all kinds.
  
  
• We examined the trend of short action films the re-imagine video games In Real Life.
  
  
• On the one year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti, we saw how charities large and small were using YouTube to raise funds and awareness.
  
  
• We used search and viewing data to see how popular the cast members of "Jersey Shore" are.
  
  
• And we studied how this father and daughter duet became one of the week's most-shared videos:

Check back every day for the latest about what's trending on YouTube at: www.YouTube.com/Trends

Kevin Allocca, YouTube Trends Manager, recently watched "Elizabeth Hughes, 8 years old, National Anthem/"

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