Shaheen vs. Susan and the power of Youtube

April 20, 2009 at 12:59 pm · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: Britain's got talent, buzz, Shaheen Jafargoli, Simon Cowell, singers, Susan Boyle, viral, Youtube

Britain’s Got Talent has started its newest season with a big bang and this time it’s going global by the power of Youtube.

Susan Boyle became an instant sensation after the first week of auditions and started a whirlwind in the blogosphere and pretty much in all of the old medias also.

Her youtube video has gotten 33 million hits to the current moment and that’s about a weeks worth of buzz so far.

Another sensation who is sure to get at least almost as much attention is a young 12 year old named Shaheen Jafargoli. He was first stopped by Simon Cowell for apparently not picking the right song. Directly after that he went on to wow the audience even more and even Simon got on board this time.

See the two hype worthy competitors on your friendly neighborhood youtube site and only on youtube itself since it seems that embedding of these videos is banned. Maybe the owners didn’t want it to spread even more than it already has on the internets, but still embedding is our livelyhood and we needs to keep it free. Please remember to share kids.

All in all I really think this kind of success is just tell tale signs of the next shift in internet tv, in which access to media is instantaneous. I mean, numbers like 33 million viewers wouldn’t be as cool if this had aired months later globally, like in the good old days.

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