YouTube’s video review of 2012: From Gangnam Style to space jumps

Dec 20, 2012 | Online video

YouTube has put together a video looking back at the big events of 2012, already attracting 13 million hits in just a day. The biggest trends include Kony, Obama impersonator Alphacat, Felix Baumgartner live stream of his freefall, Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know and Lindsey Stirling’s Dubstep Violin. Watch the video below: As […]

YouTube has put together a video looking back at the big events of 2012, already attracting 13 million hits in just a day. The biggest trends include Kony, Obama impersonator Alphacat, Felix Baumgartner live stream of his freefall, Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know and Lindsey Stirling’s Dubstep Violin.
Watch the video below:


As part of its end of year review series, YouTube has also launched a ‘what’s trending’ channel .
YouTube is also hosted the 1st annual Tube-A-Tweet-A-Thon Holiday Spectacular, a 20-hour live streaming charity telethon, and the list of special guests is a who’s who of online video celebs.
To see what’s trending on YouTube as a whole they have a dashboard devoted to this topic: http://www.youtube.com/trendsdashboard

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