So I didn’t “catch” ABC News’ new magazine show i-Caught last night. I browsed over to the site, and found today’s webcast – “Does a sexy title mean more views for internet video?” Hmm. Sounds intriguing. After a few little anecdotes, the host tee’d up an experiment. ABC filmed several short videos – then uploaded them to YouTube. They started with the title “Woman Waits for Bus” – and worked their way up to “Frumpy Turned Hot Woman with Dog & Guitar Attacked by Ninja.” The segment caps with host Don Dahler asking a producer which video got the most clicks. “Don! You knoooow I can’t tell you! To find out, you’ll have to tune into i-Caught this Tuesday!” WHAT?? You just teased me? On the web? Really?
So instead of going to the effort of TiVo’ing the show… I hit up YouTube and did some research. The verdict? None of the videos got much notice.
Woman Waits for Bus – 16 views
Man Waits for Bus – 58 views
Hot Woman Waits for Bus – 50 views
Guitar Woman Waits for Bus,Music – 40 views
Singing Dog and Woman Wait for Bus – 37 views
Frumpy Turned Hot Woman with Dog & Guitar Attacked by Ninja – 147 views
Woman Attacked by Ninja at Bus (stop motion) – 245 views
The webcast itself has seen 249 views. i-Caught’s premiere tied for second place on ABC last night