14 DAY TRIAL // The Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton turned to YouTube and posted a clip on the online video sharing service to require users' help to choose her campaign song. The clip is already among the most popular ones on YouTube, recording no less than 544.043 views and 117 comments. Basically, the video required users to vote one of the five songs mentioned by Hillary Clinton or even propose a new one. The contest was first launched on May 16 and it is now involving 10 songs including Tina Turner - The Best and Shania Twain - Rock This Country!.
"I want to know what you're thinking on one of the most important questions of this campaign," Hillary Clinton says in the clip according to the Daily Mail. "It's something we've been struggling with, debating, agonizing over for months. So now I'm turning to you, the American people," she added.
Some time ago, YouTube made the first step into the political market by releasing a special channel hosted by the product meant to offer only this type of content. Then, the parent company Google debuted CitizenTube, a special YouTube channel that brought a new vision over the upcoming 2008 presidential race. Every candidate was required to create a clip and talk to the nation. The video was uploaded on YouTube and kept on the first page for a week, a period of time that allowed viewers to create their own clips and upload them as replies. Until now, the video channel was quite successful as some of the candidates already expressed their plans on the online video sharing service.
Back in April, a new YouTube-like service struggled to make itself popular, introducing an attractive feature: it allows users to upload only political clips and clips related to the upcoming presidential elections. However, it was proved that it wasn't a YouTube threat as it remained only an anonymous service.