Cell Phone Concert Miley Cyrus

This post is somewhere in between being informative and a gratuitous attempt to attract more readers to this site. Although, I don't imagine too many people are searching the words "Miley Cyrus" and "Salem Oregon" together. When the pop singer performed recently at the Rose Garden in Portland, tickets went quick. It seems like the crowd that attended the concert was tech savvy and many of them shot video on their iphones and posted them to Youtube where there is a large audience of fans. The above video has been viewed over 5,000 times. That's nothing, another video from this concert has been viewed over 20,000 times already in just 3 days. Overall, video viewing online is up 41% from last year according to research done by the Nielsen Company. In August 2009, over 7.2 billion videos were played on Youtube. There were 108 million unique visitors to that site in the same time period. As cameras become smaller, there are more people creating videos and sharing with the world. A few times a week, I try to look up what kind of videos people are posting from Salem Oregon. Often, they are videos of inventory from a car dealership or vacation shots made easy to share for distant relatives. What I like to find are videos unique to Salem. The amazing thing about Youtube is that there are videos of everything. I just typed in "salem" and "restaurant" and 155 results showed up. I've even used it for videos I shot for eatsalem.com. Check them out.