Pranks Dominate This Week's YouTube Top 10

Yoga pants, bongs and kidnapping (again)

Want to go viral on YouTube? Create a really clever prank video, and the odds seem pretty decent that it will gain traction on the social video site.

Last week, it was all about snakes. This week, it's yoga pants, bongs and instant dates, as well as an ongoing phenomenon in kidnapping pranks.

Indeed, four out the Top 10 videos on the VideoWatch/VidIQ weekly content chart for Web series are prank-based. So YouTube seems unusually ripe for preroll or overlay ads that lead to branded prankvertising videos, doesn't it?

Check out the full Web series rankings below.

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