Barack Obama’s dominance in online video views is a cliche by now, but the overall figures mask the fact that John McCain packs more punch per video, especially recently. I pulled this for AdAge, but was sufficiently amazed that I thought I would re-post here.
McCain and Obama’s average views per video from their official YouTube channels for the month of September:
The young, savvy core of libertarian-leaning citizen video journalists all but disappeared when Ron Paul dropped out of the primaries, leaving YouTube to be an Obama (and increasingly Palin)-dominated space. But I suspect they’re back, this time to inform us that the subprime crisis and resulting credit crunch are in no small part the government’s fault. Of the top 25 most-viewed we are tracking across 20 sites this past week, this (among others) emerged:
