Ashton Kutcher Did Me A Favor.

So last week, the day after I posted Lauren + JP's wedding video, things got a little nutty / awesome / completely ridiculous!  Tuesday morning, I was working on emails and networking and what not, and all of a sudden a couple of my inboxes just blew up.  Like 100 new emails in each in about 30 minutes....  At first I couldn't figure it out.  Then I noticed that a lot of them were Twitter nofications letting me know that some new person was following me.

OK, cool.  Thanks.  But why so many so quick.  I started to do a little searching and all of a sudden I realized that Ashton Kutcher -- yep, the Ashton Kutcher -- had posted a retweet referencing my video:

For those who don't know, Ashton Kutcher has about 5 million followers or so by last count.  And when he tweets a link, you get insane traffic to the link in question.  Talk about marketing power awesomness.  

On Wednesday, my friend Holly called me to tell that her Mom had just seen a link to my wedding video on the home page of AOL!  Unbelievable.  Later that day, I heard from the kind folks over Sony Music, who said that Passion Pit had actually seen the video and liked it.  The next day, they posted it on their Facebook page as well!

The next three days saw my video jump to 150K views, with tons of emails asking about my rates, background, availability, etc.  I was even interviewed by www.omgimgettingmarried.com in the UK. A lot of those obviously weren't serious, but there have a been a number of those that do seem serious.  We'll see.  In any event,  to have that many people actually express their enthusiam about something I created was overwhelmingly positive.  

Now, a week later, the video has been spotted on blogs and websites all over the world including  Italy, Brazil, Portugal, Spain, UK, Germany, and Hong Kong I think.  I've spotted a few sites impersonating Lauren and JP, acting as though they were the couple featured in the video.  And I also spotted the first re-upload on YouTube today. I'll be curious to see what this massive spike in traffic to my sites will do for my Google Ranking, and also to see how many views the video will ultimately get.

What a way to start my time in L.A.