Ron Paul Surpasses 18,000 YouTube Subscribers

Posted June 27th, 2007 by morerice

As of today, June 27, 2007, Ron Paul has surpassed 18,000 YouTube subscribers. This places him (as I write this) in 46th for all time at YouTube.

As for the other presidential hopefuls here are some numbers for comparison, also taken today. The first number is subcribers and the second is channel views:

Republicans
Ron Paul: 18030; 1,223,566
Mitt Romney: 2327; 661,773
Rudy Giuliani: 1583; 101,851
John McCain: 1392; 441,503
Mike Huckabee: 624; 161,830
Tom Tancredo: 572; 407,049
Duncan Hunter: 488; 345,272
Sam Brownback: 416; 464,161
Jim Gilmore: 109; 6,041

Democrats
Barack Obama: 8496; 3,426,331
Hillary Clinton: 4394; 720,630
John Edwards: 3082; 563,591
Dennis Kucinich: 2084; 415,465
Mike Gravel: 1412; 65,069
Bill Richardson: 993; 57,659
Joe Biden: 886; 246,456
Chris Dodd: 314; 17,825

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why more Obama channel views?

On June 27th, 2007 LFOD says:

Why, with over 18,000 subscribers compared to Obama's 8,500, does Obama have nearly 3 times as many channel views as RP?

Here's my biased guess: lots of people are curious to see what Obama has to say, but aren't inspired enough to subscribe so they can see *more* of it.

When people see Ron Paul's speak, however, they think it's so flippin cool they want to see everything he says.

That's my experience, anyway.

:-)

More on Obama's Channel Views

On June 29th, 2007 morerice says:

Here are two links worth looking into on Obama's YouTube channel view numbers, suggesting they are not accurate:

http://www.techpresident....
In the "Democrat" graph, notice how Obama went from under 100,000 channel views to over 2,700,000 channel views in one week of March 19-26. The link below gives some reasons to explain this extreme aberration
http://techpresident.com/...

YouTube Channel View Numbers

On June 28th, 2007 morerice says:

LFOD asks: Why, with over 18,000 subscribers compared to Obama's 8,500, does Obama have nearly 3 times as many channel views as RP?

I agree with your biased guess, that lots of people are curious to see what Obama has to say, but aren't inspired enough to subscribe so they can see *more* of it.

But I think there is more that just this biased guess. In looking at the dates the candidates joined, I noticed Obama joined over 9 months ago. Paul joined over 3 months ago, on March 2. Also, Obama has over 3 times the number of videos compared to Paul (96 compared to 24). This might help explain why Obama has 3 times more channel views than Paul, since he's been on YouTube 3 times longer and has 3 times more videos.

Also of interest are a few more numbers of all the candidates taken today June 28, sorted by join dates, right from YouTube. A few items of interest:
1) that just about all the Democratic candiates set up their YouTube presense before the Republicans.
2) I was amazed at the disparity of number of videos between candidates, ranging from Mitt topping at 191 and Jim Gilmore bottoming out at 14. Ron Paul is near the bottom with only 24 videos, yet he still is at the top of subscribers and near the top on channel views.

Here are the numbers:

Democrats
John Edwards; Joined: 1 year ago; Videos: 98
Hillary Clinton; Joined: 11 months ago; Videos: 37
Barack Obama; Joined: 9 months ago; Videos: 96
Mike Gravel; Joined: 9 months ago; Videos: 31
Chris Dodd; Joined: 5 months ago; Videos: 89
Joe Biden; Joined: 5 months ago; Videos: 101
Bill Richardson; Joined: 5 months ago; Videos: 40
Dennis Kucinich; Joined: 4 months ago; Videos: 54

Republicans
Mitt Romney; Joined: 5 months ago; Videos: 191
John McCain; Joined: 4 months ago;Videos: 50
Rudy Giuliani; Joined: 4 months agoVideos: 41
Duncan Hunter; Joined: 4 months ago; Videos: 17
Ron Paul; Joined: 3 months ago; Videos: 24
Jim Gilmore; Joined: 3 months ago; Videos: 14
Tom Tancredo; Joined: 3 months ago; Videos: 64
Mike Huckabee; Joined: 3 months ago; Videos: 28
Sam Brownback; Joined: 3 months ago; Videos: 18