In the Presence of Greatness

So by some fluke of nature (we’re still not sure how – maybe human intervention), the latest episode of Dear Toronto (a video podcast I co-producer with Ryan and Rebecca), Toronto Green Roof and Tree Tour ended up climbing to the #1 featured video on YouTube this week.

As a result we’ve been flooded with subscriber requests, comments (mostly inane, but hey) and we’re pretty damn surprised. It wasn’t until I checked out the featured videos tonight where I had a bit of a fanboy moment – as you can see on the left above next to our video – that’s freakin’ WEEZER with a video for a song off their new Red Album, Pork and Beans. Nice!

The funniest part about all of this is that we don’t even post our videos directly to YouTube – when we upload our stuff to Blip, it gets syndicated to a dozen or so other video services, one of which is YouTube. It’s really interesting to see certain channels getting more traction than others like this.