Improving YouTube viral videos
The Secret Strategies Behind Many "Viral" Videos is an interesting post with helpful information on increasing the popularity of your videos posted on YouTube.Here's an abridged version of the post:
Making the Video:
- 15 - 30 second videos
- Ensure the video can be remixed over and over again- The video can't be a blatant advertisement
- Add the shock factor
- Make your headline fake
Reaching Most Viewed Page:
- Tell other blogs
- Tell forums
- MySpace pages
- Facebook friends and share features
- Use email lists
- Tell your friends
After you reach the most viewed page, then you can change your title, optimize your thumbnail image, increase your comments, push out more videos right away, and uniquely tag videos together.
posted by Shig Nishio @ 11/27/2007 03:25:00 PM
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