{"id":37,"date":"2008-07-18T21:50:20","date_gmt":"2008-07-19T01:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-07-18T21:50:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-19T01:50:20","slug":"what-makes-a-viral-video-go-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/18\/what-makes-a-viral-video-go-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"What Makes a Viral Video Go Viral?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the buzz around online video has to do with videos that go viral.  One day a person or a business is unknown, they post a video on YouTube&#8230;and boom&#8230;overnight they become a sensation.<\/p>\n<p>But what are the characteristics of a viral video?  Is there a pattern to them?  A formula?  Well, Mike Laurie over at the shipsbiscuit blog believes there is.<\/p>\n<p>And he believes he&#8217;s identified the patterns.  Actually, 21 of them.<\/p>\n<p>Now, his post is a bit tongue in cheek.  But it contains a nice list of videos that have gone viral&#8230;and if nothing else&#8230;they are worth a look so you can identify your own patterns (or at least try to).  Remember, people try to make viral videos every day.  And you&#8217;ve got a better chance of being struck by lightning.  But still&#8230;you do have a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to Mike&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shipsbiscuit.com\/2008\/07\/11\/viral-marketing-god-patterns-in-viral-marketing\/\" target=\"_blank\">shipsbiscuit post<\/a>.  And below is just one of the videos he lists:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zOpKFPEah3E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zOpKFPEah3E&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the buzz around online video has to do with videos that go viral. One day a person or a business is unknown, they post a video on YouTube&#8230;and boom&#8230;overnight they become a sensation. But what are the characteristics of a viral video? Is there a pattern to them? A formula? Well, Mike Laurie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}