The most popular YouTube video results for 2012 are out. The list shows the South African videos that recorded the largest number of views on the popular social media platform over the past year. The list is ranked in order of South African popularity, determined by views:
Category archives: Media
Tech Law: Media myths about the new Instagram Terms of Use
by Paul Jacobson (@pauljacobson) A number of media services are clinging to the idea that Instagram is selling users’ content and that Instagram has the right to do this in perpetuity. As usual, many of these media services have not taken the time to actually read and understand the Terms of Use or the changes that are coming next month.
Tech Law: Media insight — What changes to Facebook’s governance structure mean for users
by Paul Jacobson (@pauljacobson) Facebook’s changes to its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and its Data Used Policy generally attract a fair amount of attention and consternation. Its latest changes are no exception and while there is reason for some concern, the proposed changes won’t have the radical impact many fear it will.
Weekly Top 10: Fastest rising search terms from South Africans on Google
With the help of Google Trends we are publishing the top 10 searched for phrases (minus the sexy stuff of course) by South Africans on Google over the previous seven days.
Fast rising searches
anne hathaway
(Les Miserables just premiered in London – ed)
Breakout
cput +250%
miss south africa +160%
mangaung +110%
computicket +90%
nelson mandela +90%
iphone 5 +60%
fb +50%
groupon +50%
justin bieber +50%
Social thinking: transforming to meet the needs of consumers today
by Louise Marsland. Exclusive extract from the TREND. Socialising Enterprise Report. There are many definitions of social media and as many misunderstandings about what social media can do for your brand.
#MagLoveTop10: International magazine covers we loved in 2012
by MediaSlut. After the great response on last week’s “TOP 10 South African covers of 2012” we are excited about showing you a selection of our favourite International magazine covers.
Worldwide search trends on Google – 2012 list
Trending: Search queries with the highest amount of traffic over a sustained period in 2012 as compared to 2011.
Jerm: neither left-wing nor right-wing but the middle-finger
by Herman Manson (@marklives) When the cup is half full, its hard being a satirist, as Jeremy Nell, who works under the name Jerm, found out.
Nell, until recently the cartoonist for The New Age, had his contract terminated by editor Moegsien Williams because, says Nell, his political cartoons were, according to Williams at least, not “aligned with the paper’s vision and mission.”
The New Age, funded by the politically connected Gupta family, launched “to focus on the positive side of news,” according to its own website, and this has been construed by critics as being pro-government. Williams is the paper’s fourth editor in two years.
Nell says initially news of his effective firing from The New Age didn’t generate much attention from mainstream media (there was quite a bit of outrage in social media circles) until Zapiro took up his cause in a cartoon that takes the mickey out of the New Age editors.
Weekly Top 10: Fastest rising search terms from South Africans on Google
With the help of Google Trends we are publishing the top 10 searched for phrases (minus the sexy stuff of course) by South Africans on Google over the previous seven days.
News of the pregnancy and hospitalisation of Kate Middleton (officially Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge) and the subsequent media scandal around a prank call to the hospital which treated her ensured her name became the fastest rising web search term on Google by South Africans last week.
Also in the news last week was the sentencing of Molemo “Jub Jub” Maarohanye after the musician was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment following a car crash in 2010 which killed four pupils and injured two more.
Fast rising searches
kate middleton +600%
gmail sign in +450%
jub jub +130%
psl +120%
gumtree.co.za +110%
kaizer chiefs +110%
game specials +60%
justin bieber +50%
multichoice +50%
myunisa +50%
#MagLoveTop10: South African magazine covers we loved in 2012
by MediaSlut. I love countdowns! List it and I’ll read that article. So I’m especially thrilled to present to you a countdown of the Top 10 South African covers for 2012!