I remember seeing this RSS in Plain English Video in a posting a while ago and thinking how great. I definitely need to share this with my colleagues who just don’t quite get why I’m reading so much on the Internet lately.
Now the reason I can’t remember which posting it was on has become quite evident as Lee Lefever explained yesterday on his blog The Common Craft Show.
The video was posted on April 23rd, 2007. Today is May 28th and in just over a month the video has been…
Viewed over 80,000 times across three hosts (Blip.tv, YouTube and DotSub)
Translated into 9 languages (subtitles)
Commented on 160 times (across sites)
Dugg 975 times
Added to Del.icio.us 795 times
Linked-to over 680 times (says Technorati)
Of course, all this has been quite good for the Common Craft web site. In the same month, the site has…
Gained over 400 new RSS subscribers
Reached Technorati Authority of 980, Rank of 2146
The blog entry containing the video has been viewed 46,000+ times and has over 100 comments
Gained more visitors by maybe 20%
And this all culminates in one big objective for us: Let’s try to do THAT again!
Way to go. That is impressive. It’s amazing how one little video that really hits home for people can explode into something so big and wonderful. Congratulations Lee and keep up the great work.
Another person that this happened to was inspirational/motivational speaker Judson Laipply with his Evolution of Dance. If you haven’t seen it yet I’d be really amazed. I don’t remember the stats exactly how it took off within a week, but since being posted on YouTube in April 2006 it has been viewed over 49 Million times. The story is something along the lines that within a week of being posted hundreds of thousands had viewed it and Jud was being scheduled to appear all over the world on talk shows. Wow, one week.
Makes me wish I had some great video to post on the net too.
Oh wait there is my improv troop. One day we’ll be famous. We’ll be stars.