Online video is very dominant today in the worldwide web especially in the entertainment industry. A lot of talents are discovered and they become so popular with the help of online video advertising. Even business companies are using online videos to advertise their products and services. In fact, a lot of online videos are now scattered all over the internet competing each other as to who gets the millions of visitors during the marketing period.

According to comScore Inc. (the leading global internet information provider), Youtube.com, a subsidiary of Google Inc., got 99.5 million viewers in October of 2008. Viewers were mostly from the United States who watched 5.3 billion videos on YouTube or an average of 53.2 videos per viewer.

Also, the online presence of President Barack Obama during presidential campaign period contributed a big factor on the rising of percentage of viewers from the period covered in the report because of the election in the United States. This is another great achievement of YouTube after just being appointed as Secretary of Video by US elected President Barack Obama.

Youtube was launched last February 2005 and by November 2006 Google purchased it. There were three years already of its existence in the web and it continuously attracted more users and viewers’ worldwide. Thus, in return to its valuable users, Youtube is awarding honors to videos into different categories: daily, weekly, monthly and all time.

Honors are consisting of the following:

• Featured

• Most Responded

• Most Discussed

• Most Popular

• Most Viewed

• Rising Videos

• Top Rated

• Top Favorited

Currently, Youtube hosts the very first ever live streaming event called YoutubeLive.

Many people believe that President-elect Barack Obama’s conquest of the White House would be recorded in the history of US politics as the first election which politicians use social media. It was very successful campaign of the Obama political campaign team since he defeated the Clinton machine and also John McCain, which was a clear victory too for the social media. This is simply because the Obama team who managed his campaign has used the power of social media

Social networking sites like You Tube and Twitter played great rules because millions of people were members of these sites. The microblogging style of twitter was also very helpful because it was widely used in the social campaign of the Obama campaign machinery.

Through the presence of social media tools individual voters have many opportunities to access wide range of information about the candidates who participated in the electoral process. They can easily follow their favorite candidates and know their various platforms of government because of these tools such as blogs, social networks, sharing of photos and videos.

As far as the Obama campaign is concerned, they were able to put up a completely solid campaign and created an unforeseen force through the internet which made them able to raise more funds locally and internationally, and made their best smear campaigns which first topple down the deadly Clinton machine, the JohnMcCain clout as well as the Republicans.

The movement that they’ve created was extra-ordinary as through the power of social media they were able to convince even non-American people to support for the Obama presidency. It was an amazing support of the people of the world to stand by the side of the first black leader to govern America.

There’s no doubt that the unprecedented win of Barack Obama to the presidency in America against his political rival John McCain was also because of the wide support of people who use social media networking sites to actively campaign for Obama.

Twitter alone established special pages just for the “US presidential elections 2008” and the amazing thing that happened were the millions of Americans and non-Americans who responded to the project, such posting their support for Obama, issuing positive comments and more tweets to support the Obama candidacy. This also shows how important social media plays an important role nowadays in the developments of the region, most especially during election that is always awaited by all people of the world.

Even Facebook users associated with him also supported Obama down to the last minute of the campaign trail. This also means Obama has also captured many kinds of audience and not only businessmen and professionals.

I remember few weeks ago over Social Spark there were some opportunities to write about Obama but I was not only lucky, or maybe those opportunities were only for people living in America. I don’t know if the said campaigns came from Obama’s headquarters or from his supporters. That campaign certainly helped since if there were hundreds of opportunities it also means hundreds of weblogs where Obama articles were also posted. I’m sure it also gained thousands of links most especially if the websites have hundreds of followers every day.

Indeed, social media networking nowadays is really helpful – whether you are in business, associations or politicians who want to gain support from the mass base of readers. You only need to consult the experts in online marketing and you can get what you want.

Obama’s win is also history for the American people. He is the first black to become president of the United States of America. Now, many Americans are hoping he could make America great again by initiating very laudable measures helping the economy in America bounce back and many more.

For President-elect Barack Obama, my congratulations! You’re the man to watch in America.

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