2009's Most Viral Videos

Music videos rule the charts, user-generated stuff absent
By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff
Posted Dec 13, 2009 1:20 PM CST

Viral videos went corporate in 2009, with nary a user-generated video cracking the top 10 in Visible Measures’ ranking, based on views on 150 different platforms. The list is almost entirely music videos, which are essentially ads for albums, TechCrunch points out. The only exception is the top video, the trailer for New Moon. (More viral video stories.)

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