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Wow. Even the Daily Show is covering this snake epidemic! These snakes cannot be stopped!

Watch out D.C. and San Francisco. Stay vigilant for SNAKE ATTACKS.

In a related news story: Snakes love a bargain. Snakes shop at Wal-Mart.

Last July I created the video below. It is my Shepard character from Mass Effect riding in an elevator with Wrex and various other NPCs that are in your party. It is arguably my most popular video on YouTube, at least as far as comments and views go. That said, its no “Chocolate Rain”.

Recently, Mass Effect 2 was announced by Bioware. On 2/20/09 they released a teaser trailer. While ‘Wrex in an Elevator” recieved a decent amount of daily visitors, the average amount of unique visitors increased about 60-70%. 

Yes, there was simply more general interest in Mass Effect videos due to the announcement. There were smaller increases in my other Mass Effect videos as well after 2/20. What is of particular interest to me is that several other sites picked up my “Wrex in an Elevator” movie and embeded it to get more visits to their spammy gamer sites.

People want to know if their saved games will be used to determine the fates of their old crew, namely Wrex, Kaiden and Ashley. (Per Bioware: Don’t delete your ME 1 saved games if you still have them!) Because of the comments I get on the video contain some speculation about Mass Effect’s sequel, it ranks pretty well for queries such as “‘mass effect 2′ wrex kaiden ashley”. The embeded video ranks pretty well for the same terms:

So from an Online Marketing standpoint, this just goes to show how easy it is to use existing content on YouTube to give visibility to pages as well as why it is important to look at your analytics to see where your traffic is coming from and if anyone is using your content.