As we head into the last week before the Australian federal election, here’s a quick update to my last post where I collected together the most-tweeted YouTube videos out of the #ausvotes Twapperkeeper archive so far. That post only took us up to Friday 6 August – which is centuries ago in election time.
Last week (Sunday 8 Aug to Saturday 15 Aug) saw a few breakthrough hits, especially the ABC’s Gruen Nation fake pro-Greens ad produced by Republic of Everything; some snippets of Sky news coverage; and the usual retweets of official campaign ads. Note that the reasonably popular Time Warp spoof (the ALP’s attempt at a ‘viral’ video) seems to have been pulled by YouTube due to alleged copyright infringement, but as of now it’s still up on Vimeo. Results follow below.
| YouTube Link | Video Title | Notes | Twitter links | YouTube views |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gruen Nation | Ep. 3 | The Pitch: Republic of Everyone | The Pitch: Republic of Everyone's pro-Greens ad (ABC upload) | 135 | 69731 |
| 2 | [Time Warp starring Tony Abbot] | ALP attempt at viral video. Removed due to copyright claim by Richard O'Brien - alternative link at vimeo | 123 | N/A |
| 3 | The Greens ad done for Gruen Nation | A repost of the Greens ad, posted by Republic of Everyone | 39 | 19885 |
| 4 | Election Communication Forum 2010 | Election forum focused on ICT issues on Tuesday, 10 August (Sky News live feed, posted at Google's "australiavotes" YT channel) | 19 | 4850 |
| 5 | Common sense without the violence | Family First campaign ad | 17 | 4781 |
| 6 | Libra-l | Yes We Canberra! | Feminine hygiene spoof ad from The Chaser | 15 | 9542 |
| 7 | The four tops - It's the same old song | This Four Tops classic was posted numerous times in tweets characterising the Coalition's policies as backward. | 14 | 314853 |
| 8 | The Budgie Smuggler | ACTU "Your Rights at Work" campaign video featuring budgies flying into Tony Abbott's speedos - appears to have been reinstated after being withdrawn from the site by YouTube a couple of days ago. | 13 | 10384 |
| 9 | Even Peter Costellos doubts Tony Abbott's judgement | ALP campaign ad | 13 | 15494 |
| 10 | Streaker interrupts Sky News Aust coverage | Streaker interrupts coverage of the Coalition campaign launch. YT channel belongs to a NZ-based live news aggregator website | 13 | 11536 |