YouTube.com video battles: BP Spills Coffee vs. BP's ads for YouTube friends
It's an interesting battle going on within the most-viewed real estate space on YouTube. From the attached pic, you can see that the YouTube.com video called 'BP Spills Coffee' by UCBComedy.com is up to nearly 750,000 views since being uploaded on June 9, 2010.
Ironically, it sits right next to the BP-sponsored video imploring YouTuber's to 'Friend BP on YouTube' and to 'Visit BP's YouTube Page for The Latest Gulf Spill Video Updates' -- presumably, instead of visiting UCB Comedy videos below.
(Their 'BP: Rich Fish' YouTube videos hasn't fared as well, with only 21,609 views since the same upload date.)
Clicking on BP's promoted YouTube video gets users a message from Tony Hayward, a video that's received only 230,017 views since being uploaded on June 3, 2010. In that video, Hayward apologizes for the oil spill and promises to make it happen, and to get it right. An 866 phone number is flashed at the end.
But words like these are being overshadowed from others in the new media, like that of a recent interview with a widow whose husband died in the Gulf oil explosion -- a woman who told Anderson Cooper that BP has had no contact with her, not even a sympathy card.
Meanwhile, the BP Spills Oil video continues to reign, showing a befuddled group of execs spilling coffee on a table and letting it dry, creating a bigger mess with every turn.
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