{"id":2899,"date":"2012-10-03T13:29:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T13:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=2899"},"modified":"2012-10-03T13:32:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T13:32:32","slug":"vsauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=2899","title":{"rendered":"VSauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some footage that I shot at the World Gurning Championship got used in an episode of (popular YouTube series) VSauce this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FYvxUnS2Guw?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;albeit originally without any kind of credit (naughty!!). <\/p>\n<p>After some gentle prompting, VSauce back-linked to my original YouTube clip <strong>and<\/strong> the corresponding page on the <a href=\"http:\/\/calendarcustoms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Calendar Customs<\/a> website. Interestingly &#8212; and despite the fact that both links are right next to each other in the video description text &#8212; the web analytics for calendarcustoms.com aren&#8217;t showing <strong>any<\/strong> significant upsurge in traffic &#8230;whereas my YouTube video is up from 17,000 views to 27,000 views (and rising) in just a couple of days. <\/p>\n<p>There might be an interesting lesson to be learned there about the efficacy of linking outside of YouTube&#8217;s ecosystem vs linking to other videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some footage that I shot at the World Gurning Championship got used in an episode of (popular YouTube series) VSauce this week&#8230; &#8230;albeit originally without any kind of credit (naughty!!). After some gentle prompting, VSauce back-linked to my original YouTube &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/?p=2899\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,46,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre","category-calendar-customs","category-video","tumblog-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnshepherd.me.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}