There aren't any kind of data that indicates the viral videos are required to have certain criteria to go viral. If it catches people's attention, if they are good - they will share it with others. Online videos are one of the persuasive channel therefore there are many people including politicians, entrepreneurs, and every other salesman use online videos in clever manner to make it viral. In other words, viral videos are those online videos that are seen by millions of people in the net.
My topic is Advertisement and Business viral videos; there are several characteristics of online videos. It is easy to create, it is cost effective (almost anybody can do it), it has low barriers to entry, and very high impact. It is very good for the smaller companies because of the cost and no limitations to lot of unwritten laws. In other words, it is hard for larger companies to make raw authentic videos that are appealing to internet audience. It is very important to understand that internet audience is a very different market. There are varieties of attributes that helps a video go viral. If the video is good people share it through links, especially through social networking sites where they already have people following their every move. Mouth to mouth is a very effective way to make your video go viral. Armature videos are very effective way to communicate with the new audience in the internet who has already detached their life away from television. In the near future the TV audience is going to shift towards the internet or computer, which could increase the demand for raw uncut version of advertise over the internet. The positive forces include self promotion of your talent which could lead to fame and fortune, the other positive force would be educating public, do it yourself projects videos have helped millions of people discover their inner skills of how to do stuff, also law enforcement have taken advantage of viral videos to nab the suspects. With the positive side we get the negative sites as well. People can take ill-advised videos and put over the internet which could destroy other peoples lives.
People can take ill-advised videos and put over the internet which could destroy other peoples lives. Musicians and artists have taken full advantage of this online videos because of its potential to go viral. For example Justin Beiber was discovered through online videos. Old spices commercials have taken net by storm. Online videos can change peoples’ lives if they go viral and small business and advertisement companies have been taking full advantage of online videos in hopes of catching fire.
Here is three of the 8 viral videos that were popular in 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX8iVo5vc8o&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-Siey83Pq8&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2FX9rviEhw&feature=player_embedded
