YouTube Nigeria has released a list of the most watched videos in the country.

A look at Nigerian favorite music videos in 2013, reveals that songs like Ada Ada by Flavour, Caro by Starboy feat L.A.X & Wizkid, Personally by P-Square, Jaiye Jaiye by Wizkid ft Femi Kuti and Eminado by Tiwa Savage ft Don jazzy were some of the most watched music videos in NIgeria in 2013.

Comedy videos continue to top the charts with videos like The Interview by NdaniTV and Lagos Big Girl’s Game by VideoHitsShow’s featuring as two of the most watched videos in 2013.

Globally, the world watched the The Fox more than 265 million times, making it the top trending video of 2013. Viewers also made it a top searched Halloween costume. The global public turned out in record-setting numbers to see Psy’s post-Gangnam Style performance on his latest video – Gentleman. And YouTube users made more “Harlem Shake” videos than there are people in Manhattan.

Here are the Top 10 Videos For Nigeria In 2013(excluding music).

1. Last Flight To Abuja – The full movie (Nollywood Movies 2013)
2. Civil Defence Commandant Can’t Tell His Organisation’s Web Address
3. EDIDI-(The Bond) – Latest Yoruba Movie 2013 Starring Iyabo Ojo
4. Stella Damasus and Senator Yerima on Al-Jazeera Network THE STREAM
5. The Leaked Video Of Gen. Diya Oladipo Pleading With Gen. Sanni Abacha – Oputa Panel
6. THE LAGOS BIG GIRL’S GAME ( Reanne Opia)
7. Bling!
8. How to get married; “Naija” style by Toke Makinwa
9. The Interview – A tale of Frank Donga
10. Nigeria – Burkina Faso | CAN Orange 2013 | 21.01.2013

The Top 10 YouTube Channels show that Nigerians are finally beginning to stream movies. 5 out of the channels are nollywood channels. The top channels are:

1. AYTVAYTV
2. channelsweb
3. yorubamagic
4. mynaijalove
5. TVnolly
6. nollywod5star
7. ndaniTV
8. DavidoHKNTV
9. Nollywood5ive
10. Officialiyanya

The Top 10 Music Videos Watched By Nigerians

1. Ada Ada [Official Video] by Flavour
2. PULL OVER (OFFICIAL VIDEO) by KCEE Ft. Wizkid
3. Personally by P-Square
4. CARO – (Official Video) by Starboy Ft. L.A.X & Wizkid
5. Jaiye Jaiye (Official Video) by WizKid Ft. Femi Kuti
6. Sexy Mama [Official Video] by Iyanya Ft. Wizkid
7. Eminado [Official Video] by Tiwa Savage Ft. Don Jazzy
8. Stupid love by Olamide
9. Skelewu (Official Video) by Davido
10. Emi ni baller (Official Video) by Chidinma Ft. Tha Suspect & IllBliss

What’s your favorite YouTube video this year? Tell us in the comments!

YouTube has released a list of the most watched videos from its Nigerian viewership. Seven of them are music videos by Nigerian musicians. VConnect’s You Go Connect video went insanely viral and hit the number 8 spot.

Here are the videos in descending order.

1. P-Square -  Chop My Money ft. Along, May D[Official Video]

2. D’Banj – Oliver Twist

3. P-Square – Beautiful Onyinye ft. Rick Ross [Official Video]

4. Bracket – Girl ft. Wizkid

5. Iyanya – Kukere[Official Video]

6. Sexy Criminal

7. Flavour – Oyi ft. Tiwa Savage (REMIX [Official Video] )

8. VConnect Fever Video: You Go Connect

9. Davido – Dami Duro(OFFICIAL VIDEO)

10. Marvin Sapp – My Testimony

Looking at the list, there are more music videos than any other type of videos. This gives a general idea of what type of videos Nigerians want to watch on YouTube. If you’re a content creator who hasn’t been getting YouTube views, you know what to do.

Despite broadband limitations and network interruptions, YouTube has warmed its way into the hearts of Nigerians.

In 2012, the number of YouTube views in Nigeria grew by 125 percent, making Nigeria the country with the second highest viewership growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. The figures place Ghana in the top spot with a 140 percent growth. Nigeria is ahead of other Sub-Saharan African countries with local YouTube domains. Kenyan views grew by 95%, South African views by 80%, Uganda by 75% and Senegal by 75%.

YouTube has been a good avenue for Nigerian content creators to publish videos to the world and monetize them with its ad partnership program.

“Nigerians have embraced YouTube, creating and watching locally created and relevant content in the different local languages,” said Google’s Communications and Public Affairs Manager for West Africa, Taiwo Kola-Ogunlade. ”They are part of a highly connected global community that uploads 72 hours of video every minute and watches 4 billion hours of video a month.”

Among all the videos uploaded from Nigeria to YouTube in 2012, a large number of them were entertainment related. Nigerian music artistes and Nollywood’s creators have finally embraced the service as another path to monetising content.

Google began launching localised versions of YouTube for Sub-Saharan countries in December 2012. The localised versions pushed local content to the YouTube homepage of users across Africa, encouraging subscriptions and uploads.

That decision seems to have paid off. What do you think?

Jesse Jags makes a quick joke about how Nobody tests him[Get it?] and then explains how he heads to YouTube.com.ng to find inspiration. They both port into an advanced touchscreen-based world where different Nigerian videos from Tafawa Balewa speaking to Music videos and Oliver de Coque performances are highlighted. The kid’s sister then wakes him up and asks if he’s done with the assignment. He replies in the negative saying “I know where to find my inspiration”.

Here’s the Video

Source: Google Africa, YouTube

Localised videos aren’t yet showing up on YouTube.ng or YouTube.com.ng as the URLs are being redirected to http://www.youtube.com/?gl=NG&hl=en-GB. By the end of the launch event yesterday and as I draft this, localised content haven’t still been pushed to the homepage. All I see are a bunch of tech related videos from RIM, Mythbusters to Nokia.

Nigeria joins the growing Kenya, Egypt, South Africa and Tunisia on the list of African countries with localised YouTube versions. YouTube Naija will feature a new Logo with ‘Tube’ in the colours of the Nigerian flag. The design is consistent with YouTube’s new design. Making channels prominent and showing you shared videos from your Google+ and Facebook friends

We’ll keep you updated as more details emerge.

What do you think about this? Please leave a comment

The domain YouTube.com.ng was purchased in 2009 and YouTube.ng was purchased in February this year for about $20,000. We aren’t sure what services will be provided, but like the Kenyan version it might have dedicated pages in local dialects. Google might have also partnered with local broadcasters and content creators to bring Nigerian content to the service.

Like YouTube.com, users will also be able to share local content. This will help local creators publish content to a specific audience instead of random uploads to the main YouTube service.

What do you think about this service? Leave us a comment.

Soruce: Techloy