Oh yea! Opened by inbox and got a sweet gift from the art department this afternoon. A nice graphic summarizing the state of the online video viewing situation in regards to our two presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain. Barack Obama has done a fantastic job of engaging social media and online video since the primary season but since Sarah Palin entered the fray, John McCain has also been padding his online video portfolio.

We are so fortunate to have such a powerful online video metrics platform at our disposal where we can track on a very global scale what is happening with brands, content, music, and even presidential candidates. We are tracking over 200 million videos and every piece of interaction data around them in realtime. The Scope Video Metrics Platform also gives us the amazing ability to drill down on a very granular level and deliver the behavior metrics of viewers on any given video platform. This gives us amazing insights on how to create content, optimize it, and position it perfectly on a given video platform. Truly powerful indeed.

We are planning a series of posts and infographics exploring the issues in this election but we thought we would kick things off with a summary graphic. Below is a break down of the state of each candidate’s videos online. We show you the views, comments, viewing rate, gender, age, and what platforms are key for each candidate. Keep in mind the candidate himself might have uploaded the video or someone else could have done the same. In either case, Scope can identify videos using our MultiMatch algorithms.

Gender

Some interesting things to note. Barack Obama attracted more female viewers than John McCain which I thought was very interesting. You would think after John McCain picked Sarah Palin, female viewers would take a look at the McCain ticket to see what she is all about but Obama is holding on steadily to the female demographic by about 5 percentage points.

Age

On the age front, Barack Obama is pulling in more younger viewers while McCain is pulling in a slightly older bunch which is to be expected. So on that note, enjoy the information and stay tuned to more posts on this very exciting presidential election. We have a series of great posts coming up that really dives in to the issues.

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Your wait for weekly fix of the Brand20 Index is over. The new sizzling videos and numbers have just hit the main servers.

BMW was finally trumped by Disney as the top brand for this week, thanks for tons of new videos uploaded by users all around the world. Nike’s got another viral hit at their hands, Thanks to this “Cloverfield” style new Ad promoting their website NikeFootball.com. These are some great examples of Brands embracing online viral video to drive traffic and community to their own websites. Take it to the Next Level Nike!!!

You can see the chart here

Your weekly fix of Brand20 is ready for consumption for the week of April 5, 2008. Scope does the heavy lifting for us and analyzes tens of thousands of videos for each brand giving us an incredibly detailed overview ranging from demographics to influencers for each brand. 

You can access the latest chart here