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YouTube Announces Upcoming Viral Video Trends #newtrends

1,736,051 views 2 days ago

Here at YouTube HQ, we write, shoot, and upload all of the world's most popular viral videos. Here's a sneak peek at what you'll be watching in 2014.

Clocking First Look http://goo.gl/6I5zn0
Kissing Dad First Look http://goo.gl/NmoVPJ
Glub Glub First Look http://goo.gl/dMnMU4
***Official Glub Glub Water Dance song available on the YouTube Audio Library: https://www.youtube.com/aud...
User-Submission: Chicken High Fives First Look http://goo.gl/XlAUC3
User-Submission: Flash-Sobbing First Look http://goo.gl/XOPFHd
User-Submission: Guitar Tricking First Look http://goo.gl/2cvfRK

And this year, we're looking to you to submit your own viral trend ideas! Share your ideas using #newtrends and our Meme Development experts will choose their favorites and make them official YouTube trends, complete with demo videos on youtube.com/youtube.

Thanks to our guest stars for demonstrating the year's upcoming trends: Gregory Brothers (https://www.youtube.com/the...), Todd Womack (https://www.youtube.com/bar...), Jake Roper (https://www.youtube.com/vsa...), Andy Zou, Molly Gallagher, Vanessa Hill, Kung Pao O'Malley

And thank you to our past trend successes:
Gangnam Style https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Trampoline Fail Excites Dog https://www.youtube.com/wat...
Friday - Rebecca Black http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Leave Britney Alone! http://www.youtube.com/watc...
The Screaming Sheep http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Double Rainbow: http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Nyan Cat: https://www.youtube.com/wat...
The Harlem Shake - BREAK: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

By submitting your ideas in any of these ways, you give YouTube permission to use your ideas in videos, images, and other content that may be displayed on YouTube, other Google services, or elsewhere on the Internet. This includes all of the rights we need to use your ideas, whether under copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property rights. You also agree to submit only ideas and other content for which you have all necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to give us these rights.

Upcoming Trends of 2014 Play

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YouTube Announces Upcoming Viral Video Trends #newtrends
- by YouTube Spotlight
- 1,736,051 views
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Clocking First Look #newtrends
- by YouTube Spotlight
- 310,824 views
- CC
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Glub Glub First Look #newtrends
- by YouTube Spotlight
- 386,005 views
- CC
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- by YouTube Spotlight
- 329,964 views
- CC
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- by YouTube Spotlight
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- 34,919 views

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