As we head into the last week before the Australian federal election, here’s a quick update to my last post<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n
| YouTube Link<\/th> | Video Title<\/th> | Notes<\/th> | Twitter links<\/th> | YouTube views<\/th>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1<\/td> | Gruen Nation | Ep. 3 | The Pitch: Republic of Everyone<\/a><\/td> | The Pitch: Republic of Everyone's pro-Greens ad (ABC upload)<\/td> | 135<\/td> | 69731<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t |
| 2<\/td> | [Time Warp starring Tony Abbot]<\/td> | ALP attempt at viral video. Removed due to copyright claim by Richard O'Brien - alternative link at vimeo<\/a><\/td> | 123<\/td> | N\/A<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t |
| 3<\/td> | The Greens ad done for Gruen Nation<\/a><\/td> | A repost of the Greens ad, posted by Republic of Everyone<\/td> | 39<\/td> | 19885<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t |
| 4<\/td> | Election Communication Forum 2010<\/a><\/td> | Election forum focused on ICT issues on Tuesday, 10 August (Sky News live feed, posted at Google's \"australiavotes\" YT channel)<\/td> | 19<\/td> | 4850<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t |
| 5<\/td> | Common sense without the violence<\/a><\/td> | Family First campaign ad<\/td> | 17<\/td> | 4781<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t |
| 6<\/td> | Libra-l | Yes We Canberra!<\/a><\/td> | Feminine hygiene spoof ad from The Chaser<\/td> | 15<\/td> | 9542<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t |
| 7<\/td> | The four tops - It's the same old song<\/a><\/td> | This Four Tops classic was posted numerous times in tweets characterising the Coalition's policies as backward.<\/td> | 14<\/td> | 314853<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t |
| 8<\/td> | The Budgie Smuggler<\/a><\/td> | 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Work\" campaign video featuring budgies flying into Tony Abbott's speedos - appears to have been reinstated after being withdrawn from the site<\/a> by YouTube a couple of days ago.<\/td> | 13<\/td> | 10384<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t |
| 9<\/td> | Even Peter Costellos doubts Tony Abbott's judgement<\/a><\/td> | ALP campaign ad<\/td> | 13<\/td> | 15494<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n\t |
| 10<\/td> | Streaker interrupts Sky News Aust coverage<\/a><\/td> | Streaker interrupts coverage of the Coalition campaign launch. YT channel belongs to a NZ-based live news aggregator website<\/td> | 13<\/td> | 11536<\/td>\n\t<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … <\/p>\n |