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Video Hits was an Australian music video program that first aired on 15 February 1987. From 7 May 2011 it broadcast on Network Ten for two hours each Saturday and Sunday morning: 10am – 12pm on Saturdays and 8am – 10am on Sundays. At the time of its cancellation, Video Hits was the world's second longest running music show after the Eurovision Song Contest. The last episode aired on 6 August 2011. The last song played was Every Teardrop is a Waterfall by Coldplay.

Video Hits generally plays Top 40 Australian and overseas titles as well as clips that are being promoted but not in the charts. Video Hits supports Australian music charts, featuring local artists such as George, Frenzal Rhomb, The John Butler Trio, Little Birdy, Delta Goodrem, The Hampdens, The Cat Empire and The Sleepy Jackson. Video Hits also hosts various competitions through SMS. In 2005, the show gave away more than $650,000 in prizes. Video Hits Up Late (or Video Hits Presents) usually airs in 5 minute long to 30 minute long timeslots early in the mornings on some weekdays and weekends. It is similar to the program entitled Nine Presents which usually airs in 10 minute blocks on the Nine Network spontaneously throughout the week. Video Hits Uncut was a 90 minute to 120 minute long show broadcasts late on Friday (some weeks on Thursdays or Wednesdays) nights. It showed "explicit" (some videos, however, were still edited for content) videos that could not be shown on Video Hits in its morning timeslot. It was rated MA15+. Video Hits Presents is a 30 minute to 60 minute long special broadcast after Video Hits on Saturdays and Sundays. It usually details some (or all) of an artist or band's videos, and sometimes an interview with them. It is usually broadcast before or after the artist/band has released a new song/album/DVD or toured the country, but this is not always the case.

At the time of its cancellation, the hosts of Video Hits and Video Hits First were Faustina 'Fuzzy' Agolley and Dylan Lewis. The new format introduced in 2004 included two regular hosts Kelly Cavuoto and Axle Whitehead – former contestants on Australian Idol in 2003. Cavuoto was sacked in late 2004 after appearing at a children's TV award show under the influence of alcohol and Whitehead took over as solo host of the show. Whitehead resigned on 1 November 2006 after exposing himself at the 2006 ARIA Awards, which were held three days earlier. After Whitehead's resignation, Agolley became host of Video Hits. She has since interviewed many artists including The Black Eyed Peas, Kanye West, Coldplay and Pete Murray. In February 2007, MTV presenter Nathan Sapsford joined and began co hosting the show. Soon after, he became the sole host, with Agolley going back to only hosting Video Hits First. On special occasions (such as the recent Video Hits special A Z of Pop), they both share hosting duties. Sapsford left Video Hits in 2009 and his replacement was Hayden Guppy. In December 2009, it was announced that Dylan Lewis would replace Guppy from 2010.