{"id":2280,"date":"2008-03-19T16:13:40","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T21:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/03\/19\/video-obama-speech-is-youtube-gold\/"},"modified":"2008-03-19T16:13:40","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T21:13:40","slug":"video-obama-speech-is-youtube-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/03\/19\/video-obama-speech-is-youtube-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Obama speech is YouTube gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may not have achieved the 17.8 million views that Chris Crocker’s classic “Leave Britney Alone” video<\/a> has — or even the 7 million views that the startled prairie dog<\/a> known as “Dramatic Chipmunk” has gotten — but then, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s speech on racism has only been up on YouTube<\/a> for less than 24 hours (as of mid-day Wednesday), and it already has over 1.2 million views.<\/p>\n

That’s not bad. Another month or so and maybe it could get into the same territory as “The Evolution of Dance,” which has a mind-boggling 78 million views<\/a>. Of course, Obama’s speech has an actual message that is somewhat deeper than the average YouTube video — hard to tell whether that will help or hinder its advance up the charts.<\/p>\n

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It may not have achieved the 17.8 million views that Chris Crocker’s classic “Leave Britney Alone” video has — or even the 7 million views that the startled prairie dog known as “Dramatic Chipmunk” has gotten — but then, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s speech on racism has only been up on YouTube for less … <\/p>\n

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