A different take on how to get viral videos

written by on October 26th, 2009

So, my last post was about another blogger who wrote an article outlining ways to get your videos to go viral starting with the usual “content is king” talk.  Well, now I found an article from someone basically arguing just the opposite of that.

Dan Ackerman wrote a blog post on TechCrunch about how to get viral videos and his #2 tip is titled “Content Is Not King”.  He believes that there are many other factors that are more important than just what you actually put in the video.  You can read the blog post here.

What do you think? Is content the most important thing or is it really not as important as all the other things you can do to your video to make it more likely to go viral?

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YouTube Comments of the Day:

MsSuperconductor has made a comment on Comfortable Stick (Comfort Wipe spoof):

Hey ! I read your little article abotu getting a lot of views on your video and found it really informative..I am following all ur little rules(even though I read it after the fact) other than the first one..but my video is a fan based Xena spoof so maybe it still works w/rule #1…u tell me I posted my video as a response…check it out and I’ve got one more view ot add to the pile…whoopeeeee!!!! thanks for the useful info! =)

mousey7789 has made a comment on Comfortable Stick (Comfort Wipe spoof):

funniest thing ive seen this year

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