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The YouTube Lottery

By The Daily Dish

Jul 7 2009, 8:30 AM ET

Chris Wilson studies the chances of getting a viral YouTube hit:

When the odds of even 1,000 people viewing your video in a month's time are only 3 percent, however, it's tough to argue that hitting it big on YouTube is anything more than dumb luck. You could argue that this is the way it's always been in show biz, and you'd be right. But wasn't the Web supposed to change all that?


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