This is the homepage for Chris Guest: Account Director, Muso, Socialite, & Londonite.
Guesto.com always used to be for everyone that wanted to see my photos from holidays & gigs etc. Now this site is for everyone that asks what I've been up to, what I will be up to, what I'm listening to, reading, loving, hating and finding on the Internet.
Basically everything most people put on a blog or MySpace page, but without all the spam, friend requests or a general need to login. Plus it means I can try out all the new widgets and feeds offered by the big web2.0 sites - see if it is as easy as its supposed to be!
I created a blog, but it was a bit too restrictive. So I decided the best thing to do would be to build my own (crap) HTML framework, then fill it with widgets and RSS feeds - let other sites do the work basically. So here is the result of literally hours of cobbling together...
I have new personal best on YouTube interactions! This is a video I filmed with my little instant camera from the crowd at Muse's Wembley Stadium gig on June 16th 2007. At the time of writing, less than one week after posting) it has notched up 3,166 views, 13 5 star ratings, 16 comments and has been favourited 11 times. I feel like such a celeb!
By no means my best gig video, but certainly the most successful. Here it is:
So this makes it even more succesful than the Swedish girls below, and in much less time. My feeling is that this is down to the importance of timing and context in being successful on YouTube. In this instance I posted the video the night after the gig, which meant I was not only one of the first people to upload, but perhaps more importantly the video was supplied at a time when there was a lot of demand - as 200,000 people returned from the gig and logged-on to relive it.
As far as I can see, this vid is the 5th most-viewed video from that gig, however it is interesting to note that it still only has one-third of the views of the number 1 most viewed. It could be that the most viewed just got there first, or that it is for "Plug in baby", possibly Muse's most popular track.
What is even more interesting though, is that there is an enormous gap between the top 5 viewed videos, and those from 6th downwards. Indeed while this vid currently has 3,166 views, number 6 only has 571 views. To me this suggests that YouTube's relevant videos bar has a self-perpetuating effect on "success", because when you are in the top five, you get seen, people view you and you stay in the top 5.
Question: Who is more popular - The Arctic Monkeys? Or a couple of Swedish Girls?
Logic tells you that when it comes to the internet, you can't beat the Arctic Monkeys, especially on any sort of social networking site. Well my YouTube video stats disagree, because somehow the innocent chat and laugh below gets 50% more views on YouTube than 2 videos of the Arctic Monkeys most famous tunes that I filmed from the crowd.
So why is this? Is it because the title of the video includes the words "How To..." or because the tags contain the words "Swedish" and "Girls"...?
