Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Viral Videos


Watch this!!  http://youtu.be/80entLldZOg  It is without a doubt one of my all-time favorite videos on YouTube.  Admit it.  You all have your favorite YouTube videos, and you have all have spent hours watching video after video digging through the kittens and babies to find the video gold.  And everyone has the dream of having one of their videos go viral.

Viral videos are the king of the pack.  They are the most viewed and most popular of all time.  According to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_video Kony 2012 became the most viral video of all time with 90,000,000 views in 2012.  To reach an audience of that size is an amazing feat!  YouTube even pays those who upload the most popular videos, because they attract attention to their ads.  If you are able to make a video, and make it go viral, you can promote any cause you want!  It is definitely a coveted title.

So how do you make a video go viral?  It means views on the website.  Sharing it through social media.  It means commenting, liking and re-posting as many times as possible.  Essentially, the more people you can get to watch the video, they closer to fame you become.

Viral videos is not a 2013 or even 2012 sensation.  http://classicviralvideos.com/ shows viral and popular videos reaching back to 2006.  Viral videos are generally funny and provide entertainment for those who watch them.  But they can be so much more than that.  They can promote ideas, causes and organizations.  Viral videos can even serve as a commercials for businesses and organizations.  So the next time you watch that Harlem shake video, think of what else could be accomplished through viral videos. 

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