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Presidential Campaigns Aren’t the Only Ones Using Online Video for Political Purposes

Though U.S. presidential campaigns’ use of YouTube has gotten plenty of attention lately, advocacy campaigns aren’t being left out of the online video revolution. An article in the new blog Together We Can Make a Difference finds 2,030 videos tagged on YouTube as “non-profit” (an increase from 76 in August) and also collects examples of advocacy videos from around the world. For instance, as reported in MIT’s Technology Review,

A left-wing group whose street protests over the unsolved murders of activists have been blocked by Philippine police has turned instead to the Internet to spread its message…[the] large left-wing group, Bayan, has created its own channel on Google’s popular YouTube video-sharing site to post videos of slain activists and violent dispersals of street protests.

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Obama’s YouTube Numbers Have That “Bad Math” Smell

In a nice piece of investigative journalism, techPresident’s Josh Levy looked yesterday at Barak Obama’s YouTube viewer statistics and wondered if something didn’t quite add up: the candidate’s YouChoose channel has been viewed 35 times more than arch-enemy Hillary Clinton’s, but it looks as though the YouTube stats might be counting a lot of ghost runners as real people.

Something definitely SEEMS a little funny: for starters, there’s an odd disparity between the number of views of Obama’s channel (high) and the number of views of actual individual videos (significantly lower). Also, Josh credits techPresident reader Robert Ruszkowski with noticing that the number of channel subscribers hasn’t risen in line with the increase in channel views. So, either the same subscribers keep coming back to the channel page without watching videos very often (not typical behavior), or something’s fishy.

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