A tender, humble and exceedingly side-splitting ad featuring a small boy dressed up like Darth Vader, who gets tricked into an impression that his Jedi powers have finally proved effective, is one among those numerous adverts that took off on the net during the course of this year.

“The Force”, an advertisement featuring Volkswagen was displayed online ahead of the US Super Bowl, and it was successful in bagging around 12.5 million clicks all over the world on YouTube.

For the first time ever in the history of YouTube, the video-sharing site developed by three ex-PayPal members in February 2005, has released its list of top ten adverts that made people go crazy for on its website during this year. To begin the list, T-Mobile’s advert “Royal Wedding Dance” was judged the best choice of viewers from all over the world. It was a well-timed parody of the royal wedding featuring actors emulating the royal family dancing gracefully down the aisle.

The second most-viewed or famous advertisement was a short trailer released for the latest version of the legendary PC game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, while the itsy-bitsy Darth Vader claimed the third position.

While expressing her belief in this regard, the Head of YouTube & Display at Google Australia, Ms. Karen Stocks said that the Internet has now ballooned into a whole new and inimitable culture of its own and viewers now attend, appreciate and admire advertisers who understand the drift better than the rest of the crowd aspiring for the same out there. That’s the reason why ads that envelop and satisfy the spirit of the net community tend to do so very well then others.

She further added that people of Australia are going crazy, almost obsessed, for YouTube and as a matter of fact, ads that are liked by people are almost certain to be shared by them naturally as compared to any other video uploaded on YouTube. So for making your video go viral on YouTube, all you need to do is think viral.