Viral Videos Of The Week: Simpsons vs Movie Stars

Article By: Joshua ‘The Red’ Russak (Red@aclion.com)

As part of this blogs timely Friday Tradition, “Viral Video of The Week” will become a regular thing. This week I’ve decided to include 2 videos for 2 reasons. The first reason is because it’s a “Friday” and that is self explanatory. The 2nd reason is because both videos have 1 thing in common: The 2008 Elections! Their popularity is due to their humorous approach to what the number 1 thing on America’s mind right now. All stats and info can be found at ViralVideoChart.com. According to them, both videos have been “spreading across the interweb like Wildfire!”…

• Discovered 01 Oct 2008
• 591,159 views
• 283 blog posts

The 2nd Video, 5 Friends Uncensored, is #2 Viral Video of The Day:

• Discovered 01 Oct 2008
• 615,283 views
• 340 blog posts

I sent an e-mail to both Scott & Matt of UnrulyMedia, the creator of this site and this is their response:
“We rank videos based on linking and sharing on the web rather than views – similar to how google ranks sites on it’s search engine.
Partially we do this because it’s information that is standard across sites (the definition of a view varies from site to site) and is a bit harder to manipulate and partially because that’s the way we’ve always done it…
Hope that explains it!
Matt.”
So there’s the answer! Now go drink and enjoy your Friday!