I have previously posted about my video clip "Wolf play", recorded in Polar Zoo, Northern Norway (which has as of today been viewed 49.476 times) - see:
In the most recent post I noted that
[t]he ups and downs in views follow the season, with exponential growth throughout the year and then a dive in traffic each Christmas (does anybody know how many videos on YouTube display this pattern - likely due to traffic generating more traffic via increased visibility, combined with a pause in interest for this kind of video during Christmas?).
Here is a more detailed picture of these seasonal variations (weekly number of views, from the clip was uploaded until the last week):
Both in 2011 and 2012 the number of views peaked in week 50 (4.147 and 1.941 views respectively). There's further been a mid-year peak in both 2012 and 2013 - in weeks 24-25 in 2012, with some 800-900 views per week, and in weeks 14-15 this year, with some 900-1.100 views per week. In contrast, there were only roughly 100 views per week in the beginning of both 2012 and 2013, after the hard landing which appears to be coded into YouTube's system.
The map below the diagram shows the countries where the video clip has been viewed the most. Top 5:
1. USA 17.963
2. Canada 3.528
3. UK 2.549
4. Italy 1.888
5. Japan 1.490
Norway is at no. 15 with 628 views.
