Official YouTube Blog: This week's Trends: fireworks, verdicts, and lots of sand

This week's Trends: fireworks, verdicts, and lots of sand

Friday, July 8, 2011

YouTube Trends

We celebrated the 4th of July with lots of fireworks.

We tracked how searches have spiked for Selena Gomez.

We followed the reaction to the Casey Anthony verdict.

We discovered how the Game of Thrones theme has been covered by lots of talented musicians in lots of different styles.

We learned of one very inspirational backflip.

We saw a lot of interest in an unfortunate incident at a Texas Rangers' game.

We collected wild footage from a dramatic dust storm in Arizona.

And we came across one very cool way to paint a pool:

www.YouTube.com/TrendsKevin Allocca, YouTube Trends Manager, recently watched "Can't Hug Every Cat."