Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Viral Videos

“A viral video is any clip of animation or film that is spread rapidly through online sharing. Viral videos can receive millions of views as they are shared on social media sites, reposted to blogs, sent in emails and so on”. I have always enjoyed watching viral videos because they are usually funny or interesting content.

            There are many ways that viral videos become viral. In my opinion social media is the main contributor to making a video popular. There are many times that I am scrolling through my social media and I will see a funny video and it will have been retweeted by thousands of people making it viral. Another really popular way of making a video viral is through the old social media network known as Vine. Vine was an app that would allow you to post videos up the 30-second intervals. Once you see a funny video like that it is easy to look up who ever created it on YouTube, and you are instantly hooked. YouTube is website that you can upload any time of video that you would like. This website is where people go to look up videos of there liking but many times before you click on the video of your likeing you will see a video that has gone viral and has millions of views which makes you curious to see why so many people are watching that video. This is how video becomes viral one click after the other.
           
            I read an article on how to make a video go viral and the tips that were given were quite helpful. First was to create a short high quality video. How many times have you clicked on a video and the quality was bad so you stopped watching it. Without the quality you will loose views which will stop you video from going viral. Also you need to keep your video short and sweet. The best is a 2 to 3 minute video if your video is much longer then that many people feel as if they don’t have the time to watch the video so keeping it a short length will help your video grows with viewers.

            Second is to place keywords and descriptions in your title. Many times what catches our attention is the words that are provided in the description. Many times I will click on the video because the title sounds so cool and sometimes the video is not that great. But that the trick you need to have descriptions that will catch your views eye.

            Third is to become your own salesperson. You need to make sure that you sell your video so that way people see it. The trick to doing that is to promote your video all over social media. Also it is good if you can to have friends or people help share your video. Along with comments on your video this will help bring attention to your video.

            Lastly is to have others help do the work for you. What I mean by that is have your YouTube setting allow for comments, ratings, votes, and shares. This will help your video bring more attention and the people will see how popular your video is which will help you reach your goal of having a viral video.

            I hope that these steps will help you create your own viral video. Or even find a viral video of your liking. This has been a fun blog and I hope that it helped you guys thanks for reading.

           

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