Hit the sweet spot on YouTube with a well-timed video, and you could be rolling in the dough.
Lewis Hilsenteger may have done just that with his iPhone 6 Plus bending video, which has now gathered a jaw-dropping number of hits.
The Ontario-based video blogger has racked up a staggering 36 million views (and climbing!) on his video (posted above), becoming somewhat of a touchstone for the continuing Bendgate saga.
He’s not the only one, however, with folks from around the globe getting tons of traffic (and, we hope, ad revenue) via their gadgety video postings.
Here, then, are a few of the most popular videos that feature Apple’s new products.
Australia-bound
When we reported on iPhoneBuff editor in chief David Rahimi flying all the way from California to Australia just to be the first iPhone 6 buyer, I was personally aghast that he’d be dropping the damn things. His video above has gotten a whopping 8.4 million views; looks like people really like seeing stuff break.
Not even the first look
Here’s a YouTuber that’s gathered a crazy seven million views at his video showing off the iPhone 6 plastic “dummy” model, something he claims in the video that many other tech vloggers had already shown off. Seven. Million. People.
No content? No problem!
YouTuber Hassan Al Hajry just posted the official Apple video explainer video for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and still manages to grab five million views. That’s kind of cheating, but ok.
Test a few more, ok?
Hilsenteger followed up his original iPhone 6 Plus bending video up with one bending the Galaxy Note 3, a large phablet from Samsung. The resulting traffic is currently at 4.2 million views.
Comparisons pay off
https://youtu.be/eQopSbASO40
This video seems to be a young Chinese man discussing the differences between the iPhone 5s and the newer iPhone 6. Views? Almost three million people have seen this thing. The iPhone 6 is hot, yo.
Rob LeFebvre is an Anchorage, Alaska-based writer and editor who has contributed to various tech, gaming and iOS sites, including 148Apps, Creative Screenwriting, Shelf-Awareness, VentureBeat, and Paste Magazine. Feel free to find Rob on Twitter @roblef, and send him a cookie once in a while; he’ll really appreciate it.
9 responses to “YouTubers strike it rich again with a host of iPhone 6 videos”
35 million views for Lew’s video.
“The Ontario-based video blogger has racked up a staggering 34.6 views on his video”
Wow. That is almost 35 views.
hahahaha, thought the same, not staggering at all, but that 35 million is more like!
Good catch – thanks!
You forgot about me, my upload hit 600,000 views and counting in a month
http://youtu.be/-VxCxfPfoeE
He’s Canadian? Oh, the Rob Ford type minus the drug habit. But a famewhere just the same.
Read this and check out the time stamp on the iPhone 6… at 1:38 and then at 2:18….
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/bendgate-truthers-claim-found-real-101714998.html
If you want your 15 secs of fame, ride on to any iPhone issues, no matter how small and dismissable it may be.
Exactly, if you get the view-count, on a monetised video you’ll earn enough to cover the damaged tech and then some.