Most-Shared YouTube Ads of April

YouTube makes advertisers' jobs easier. When fans love and share ads, they expand the clips' reach far beyond the scope of a TV spot. For some of April's most-shared YouTube ads — many of which were April Fools' pranks — those shares generated millions of pageviews.

Our friends at Unruly put together this list of the month's most-shared viral YouTube ads. Check out the gallery above to see if your favorite ad made the list.

It came as no surprise to us here at Mashable that the most-shared ad on YouTube of April was Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches" video, because it was our most-shared story as well! The viral campaign was shared more than 3.1 million times. Though that number sounds astounding, it pales in comparison to its total view count of 37.5 million.

SEE ALSO: The 20 Most-Shared Ads of 2012

What other video ads resonated with YouTube users? Kmart's "Ship My Pants," Evian's "Baby&Me," Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" and Google's "Introducing Google Noise" (an April Fools' hoax) rounded out the top five.

What ads did you share in April? Share your favorites in the comments below.

Homepage image courtesy of Youtube, Dove