During the midterm elections I put together a quirky little mashup of midterm election news. MSN linked directly to it–a coup on two fronts. First, MSN never linked to any video but their own (they have big ad commitments to serve). And, second, the behemoth usually only linked to their own politics pieces, not other sources.

The video ran up several hundred thousand views on the Newsweek site in only a few hours.