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KentVideoProduction
October 30, 2009

She was waiting for a train and was day dreaming for a moment. That was when she noticed the pram, with her baby inside, was slowly rolling towards the edge of the platform. Its a moment of sheer ...

She was waiting for a train and was day dreaming for a moment. That was when she noticed the pram, with her baby inside, was slowly rolling towards the edge of the platform. Its a moment of sheer horror. She lurches forward, but cant reach the pram as it topples over the edge onto the tracks below. A moment later the train arrives; crunching into the pram and breaking it into pieces.
It happened at Melbourne in Australia two weeks ago. But because the incident was captured on CCTV and the video posted on YouTube; millions of people around the World have already watched the drama unfold.
The story has a happy ending by the way; the baby was miraculously unharmed!
Its the latest example of the power of online video and how quickly information spreads virally in the digital age. If you search on YouTube for baby in pram hit by train youll find the same CCTV footage uploaded by scores of different people; some of the videos have had more than a million views each.
The pram drama came in the same week as some interesting new statistics. Comsocre, the digital research agency, says the number of online videos viewed every day now exceeds the number of daily searches on Google.
The research (which was carried out in the US) shows that in August 2009 10 billion videos were watched on YouTube. During the same month, Americans conducted only 9 billion searches on Google. There are no figures available for the UK, but generally where the Americans lead, we tend to follow.
And theres been another interesting development in the world of digital media; Google has launched something called promoted videos. Promoted videos are Googles answer to TV advertising. Now businesses can buy a video advert on Google (if they have a video of their products and services) in the same way they can buy TV advertising slots.
Even in the UK, it seems as if traditional TV and online video are now equally popular; I was fascinated last night to watch my two boys in the living room. The TV was on, but they werent watching it. Instead they were watching YouTube videos on their laptop.
The digital landscape is evolving at a tremendous rate and its hard to know what lessons we should be learning. However, thanks to the spread of online video, theres one important lesson thats being widely circulated at the moment: When you take a pram onto a station platform; make sure the brakes on! Written by Graham Majin Head of Video Marketing at http://www.kershmedia.co.uk and http://www.kwikvid.com

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Whats More funny then a dead baby ....
dead baby in a clown Suit uner a train

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Fucking Hell...thank fuck the kid was alright, suprised the mother didnt have a heart attack

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God bless, your baby survive..He was protected from serious harm for a reason. Give God all the thanks

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fortunately the baby survived

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Yes. Apparently the pram took the force of the impact and protected the baby. An 18 year old student Aaron Dryden jumped under the train and pulled the broken pram out with the baby still strapped inside. He acted very quickly.

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Did you bother to read the blog they wrote in the "more info" section? If you did read it (assuming you can read) you'll see it talks about how this video went viral. The whole point is they're talking intelligently about the rise of online video. Shame you can't talk intelligently isn't it.

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