Monday, September 28, 2009

The Facebook Challenge: Day 60 - The End!

We talked trash about giving ourselves two months to get more fans on Facebook than some well-known celebs, and though we're now totaling 3.65 million fans and have gained nearly 600K since embarking upon this journey, we simply could not catch up to Adam Sandler (3.69M), let alone Lady Gaga (4.02M), Will Smith (4.45M), Megan Fox (4.91M), or Vin Diesel (6.31M). Sigh.

But it's OK! Something good is coming out of this: as penance for our hubris, we asked our Facebook fans to choose which nonprofits should appear on our homepage today, in the first-ever spotlight determined by our Facebook followers. Over 1,800 of them voted on a list of nonprofits with great videos; nearly a third of Facebook voters chose charity:water, whose commendable use of YouTube and social media in general has been well documented. The rest of the votes shook out as so:

We're pleased to be featuring the top 4 winners on the homepage today. It's made the bitter pill of defeat a whole lot easier to swallow.

Ramya Raghavan, Nonprofits Manager, recently watched "George Clooney Wants to Hear From You."

15 comments:

phil said...

If youtube made a video about it, and had it on the main page, im sure you could hit 50 million fans on facebook.

krazykizza said...

I really don't see how 600k could be added, but so few voted. Seems odd. Still, fruitless task.

AndrewNoNumbers said...

I feel bad for the Noreen Fraser Foundation.

Josh said...

I think I will what to unicef since it will doing so much good work for world so I think it is going be the best organisation in the world.

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karlita10 said...

i am sorry you failed to succceed,but i am still your huge fan and didn´t know about this journey,i will look out better in the future.
Youŕe still the greatest to me !

Martina said...

Hi,
This is nice stats about the facebook.A 6.31M is very hugh no. for Vin Diesel.It will increase soon.

I like to have UNICEF on the front page of YT.

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Luper said...

Youtube team: Would you check my site and make the speed increase? It is dragging terribly! I have received a comment by a viewer already. Thank you for excellent service. Cindy

JOSEPH BARBER said...

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emb1781 said...

I agree krazykizza something doesnt seem right about that. You would think there would be a lot more votes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNpGE775hz4

aman said...

I agree somethingh does not seem right about that

joshua said...

wow i wish there was a christian organization there like RCCG

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pinkeyes79 said...

i really think that google should have or start a christian or catholic organization for people that have these types of religions because we have so many types of organizations for the rest of the people that have different religions and it is not very fair for the other people to have an organization for them and not for the people that are christian or catholic .

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Amy said...

Very Different

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