YouTube Australia Blog: December 2010

YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011: Help your favourite Aussies make the final cut

Friday, 17 December 2010

We recently announced the shortlist for the YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011. Musicians from around the world are ready to play their part, and we need you to play yours! With 336 finalists selected from 46 countries, help our fellow Aussies get to the Sydney Opera House in March.

Here’s a few words from Maestro Vladimir Ashkenazy, Principal Conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra:

So have a look at our 12 Aussie finalists, get voting, and stay tuned to find out who makes the final cut!

adam360, Flute
bmpercussion, Timpani
BrahmsWhiskers, Violin
jasechong, Violin
JohnBurgessMusic, Bass
MikieRei, Piano
MrDavidrowden, Clarinet
mrsaxmanny, Saxophone
schnarchentier, Contrabassoon
tishmp, Cello
vananhnguyenmusic, Piano
ViolinoDanski, Violin

Posted by Ernesto Soriano, YouTube Team, recently watched Katie Noonan - Vote Now

Double rainbows, annoying oranges, and bed intruders: The year on YouTube

Monday, 13 December 2010

It’s time to rewind back through the YouTube videos that people in Australia and around the world were watching and searching for in 2010. These lists of most-watched videos reflect the people, places and events that captured our collective attention and imagination throughout the year. During 2010 you all watched more than 700 billion YouTube videos, and uploaded more than 13 million hours of video. We met new faces, some new words and phrases entered our shared lexicon, and we celebrated as some new YouTube partners hit the big time with millions of views. Remember these moments?

It started with a crime scene, and ended up on the Billboard chart: when Antoine Dodson met the Auto-tune the News guys, a viral hit was made.

He’s an orange and, yeah, he’s pretty annoying. And that’s been the key to this clip’s meteoric rise in 2010: in less than one year, more than one million people have signed up for a regular dose of wise-cracking citrus.

Paul “Yosemite Bear” Vasquez’s emotive footage of a spectacular rainbow in Yosemite National Park caught the attention of a few pop culture sites and comedian Jimmy Kimmel, whose Tweet helped make this clip and the “double rainbow” one of the most beloved memes of 2010.

And now … the moment you’ve all been waiting for … here are the most-watched videos of 2010, compiled based on the view counts of videos uploaded during 2010 (in some instances aggregated across multiple versions of the same video):

In Australia, the most-watched music videos on YouTube were:

Globally, the most-watched YouTube videos were:

The most-searched for queries on YouTube during the year show what was on our collective minds as 2010 played out. Like Google Zeitgeist these lists reveal the interests, issues, and entertainment that connected us - is that what you were searching for each month?
January - iPad
February - luge
March - eclipse trailer
April - dog man
May - airplanes
June - california gurls
July - old spice
August - teenage dream
September - x factor
October - commonwealth games 2010
November - firework

For more reminders of the people, places and events that played out on YouTube during 2010, visit youtube.com/rewind or check out YouTube trends for more detailed lists including the most-watched videos in the US.

Posted by Mia Quagliarello, YouTube Community Manager.

YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011: The Shortlist Is In, Let The Voting Begin

Friday, 10 December 2010

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Aspiring filmmakers invited to enter Tropfest 2011

Thursday, 9 December 2010

This post also appeared on the YouTube blogThis is a guest post by John Polson, the founder and director of the world’s largest short film festival, Tropfest. Entries are now open for Tropfest 2011, and for the first time it’s a truly global initiative - finalists will be flown from anywhere in the world to the festival screening in Sydney on February 20, 2011. John talks here about how Tropfest came about.TropfesthereYouTube

hereJohn Polson, Founder and Director of Tropfest, recently watched Lucky.

AdNews Curates: The Year in Viral

Friday, 3 December 2010

The following is a guest post from AdNews. Check out their curation of the year's top 20 viral hits, featured on today's homepage.
Top 20 viral videos

Top 20 of 2010

What’s it like to have the Best Job in the World

Wednesday, 1 December 2010

cross-posted from the Google Australia Blog

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YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011: Help your favourite Aussies make the final cut

Double rainbows, annoying oranges, and bed intruders: The year on YouTube

YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011: The Shortlist Is In, Let The Voting Begin

Aspiring filmmakers invited to enter Tropfest 2011

AdNews Curates: The Year in Viral

What’s it like to have the Best Job in the World

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