If you're looking for some video entertainment to watch on your lunch break, this chart is a great place to start. Find a show you're interested in and click the play button to the right to check it out.
February's numbers contain quite an upset — long-time chart-toppers Fred and Happy Tree Friends gave way to a newcomer on the chart: The Annoying Orange. They still hold the #2 and #3 spots, respectively, however. Key of Awesome cracked the chart only recently, but it has already propelled itself to #4 with 300% growth since last month. Impressive!
And if what you're looking for is a more elaborately produced drama, similar to what you might see on network TV, The Bannen Way, which includes Oscar-nominated actor Michael Lerner, makes an appearance on the chart this month. It's tied with The Guild in leading Streamy Award nominations this year.
We'll have more tidbits after the chart below.
The Chart: February 2010
Rank
Last Month’s Rank
Title
Studio
Genre
True Reach View Count
Change in Views
Sample Episode
1
NEW
The Annoying Orange
GagFilms
Humor
29,084,220
NEW
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The Annoying Orange
The Annoying Orange follows a formula that works. Most two to three minute episodes star a talking orange who annoys other fruits — usually in the kitchen. In many cases, the annoyed guest fruit's day is made worse when he or she is chopped up and eaten at the end.
The GagFilms series has been running for a few months, but it achieved new popularity thanks to coverage by blogs like iJustine, who actually voiced the passion fruit in the seventh episode.
The series managed 29 million views in February, beating long-standing champion Fred by a wide margin.
The Bannen Way
This crime drama about a con man and womanizer doing one last job so he can pay off his debts and get out of the business is markedly different from the other shows on the chart. If you're more into traditional television-style productions than goofy web videos, this is a show you'll want to check it out.
There's been some question as to whether or not tightly produced series like this one have a place on the web, but The Bannen Way is reaching an audience. It's hard to say if it's a big enough audience to justify the budget, though.
Unfortunately, we were only able to embed the trailer for this one, but you can watch episodes at the show's Crackle page. Crackle is Sony Pictures Entertainment's video streaming site that features professional content ported from broadcast and cinemas as well as made-for-web shows.
Other Highlights
College Humor has continued a strong presence with live-action comedies Jake & Amir and Hardly Working. We weren't surprised to find that the former of those has a mostly male audience at 77%. If raunchy college student humor is your thing, that's the network for you.
How It Should Have Ended made another appearance on the chart with an animated alternate ending for James Cameron's massively successful film Avatar.