<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_youtube_videos_of_all_time_2008.php">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_youtube_videos_of_all_time_2008.php</a><div><br></div><div><div><div id="metadata_digg_box"><div id="metadata_digg_left"><b>Top 10 YouTube Videos of All Time, 2008 Edition</b><div id="submeta">Written by Richard MacManus / September 29, 2008 8:40 PM / 5 Comments</div></div></div></div><div><div><p align="">Last year we reviewed YouTube's 10 most popular videos. It's time to update that list and see what, if anything, has changed. Last year we concluded that 7 of the top 10 videos were music - with 5 of those being professional videos. That trend has continued, although there are now no amateur music videos in the top 10. There are 6 music videos this year, all of them from professional musicians and their record labels.</p><p align="">While YouTube became famous from user-generated content, this year's top 10 list shows that professionals still create the most popular content. Of the 4 non-music videos, 2 are comedy (professional comedians), 1 is a sappy foreign love story, and the last is a cute baby video. Only the baby video seems to be an amateur one.</p></div><div id="more"><p align="">So, what's changed over the last year in terms of rankings? Well there is a new number 1. We also now have two videos that have gone over 100 million views - the top video last year was at 55.8 million. There are 8 new entrants to the top 10, with the only two survivors being numbers 1 & 2 (who swapped places this year).</p><p align="">Here's the top 10 as of September 2008: [Note: we wanted to embed all 10 of them, but curiously 5 of these videos have had embedding disabled by YouTube - which is surprising to us, because embedding videos on third party sites is one of the best ways to get a video to 'go viral'. I guess the video owners think they've already gone viral enough.]</p><p align="">Watch the videos and read more at: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_youtube_videos_of_all_time_2008.php</p></div></div></div></body></html>