Wondering how you can make the Top 10 Most Viral Videos list? Check out this video I found about how to create a popular viral video:
Mine’s doing great, got over a million hits and it just landed me a job at a hot new media firm.
Specific areas include:
- Filming yourself sitting at your desk
- Hurting yourself
- Hurting others
- Using animals to hurt people…
Very funny parody :) So cheesy… ;) But this parody is fairly viral - it has gotten over 47,000 views (although it’s been more than 1,5 years since it was posted on YouTube - it has probably been posted on a few other places where it’s gotten several thousand additional views).
That’s one way to make your video successfully viral - make it funny. Also, if your video is about something related to the internet and internet culture then it’s likely to be passed around…
Here are a couple more videos/ads from the Viral Learning Center:
10 responses so far ↓
seo // Jun 13, 2008 at 5:28 pm
You can see what viral videos have in common but it is actually quite hard to get the final product right.
Hannes Johnson // Jun 15, 2008 at 3:31 pm
@seo: That’s true, but I think it can help to analyze other popular viral videos - try to see a trend… It can help you to see if you’re on the right track.
But there are always “surprise hits” - videos that unexpectedly become viral.
Web 2.0 SEO // Jun 25, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Videos take time as well. This is the major road block with me in creating videos. When I do, they are OK. And, I would even like to do one a day, but I just don’t have the time.
I have had a few of mine get picked up in a trade magazine, so that was pretty cool.
Mike
Tom // Jun 26, 2008 at 2:27 am
These videos make me wanna die…
poems // Jul 9, 2008 at 1:14 pm
I think it is not so easy to make your own vital video. However it is realistic, why not!
poems // Jul 9, 2008 at 1:14 pm
sorry, for my mistyping , it should be ‘viral’
Hannes Johnson // Jul 10, 2008 at 1:20 am
@poems: Yeah, if you try again and again and produce quality videos some of them might go viral (to some degree). You could also analyze which of your videos become more popular than others and try to create videos with similar features.
Craig Klein // Jul 28, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Great find! There is always something valuable in this blog - great work.
Production of a quality video is daunting but, obviously worth it.
poems // Aug 3, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Thanks Hannes for such a wonderful piece of advice
Craig Klein // Aug 15, 2008 at 4:09 am
Good one! 6 degrees of separation and all… if I have 20k emails in my database, is that enough to have it forwarded to everyone in the world virally?
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