Likes UP: How Videos Go Viral on YouTube

Likes UP: How Videos Go Viral on YouTube

Kevin Allocca watches videos professionally.  Every minute there are 48 hours of video uploaded onto YouTube.  How will yours get seen and what will make your video go viral?

YouTube’s trends manager, shares his thoughts about silly web video in his Ted talk for youth.  He shares the 4 reasons a video goes viral. It takes participation and YOU to watch, like, add to, and most important SHARE.  If you add to and remix it becomes parody and a mash-up.  That’s a big #likesup

Kevin gave some great examples of what’s popular, Friday, Justin Bieber, Nyan Cat, and double rainbow.  How videos really go viral: a celebrity tweets them.  The celebrities have the audience and the followers. Who decides what’s popular?  When you like, share, tweet, add links on social media, you are adding to the viral nature of a video.

 

Taylor Swift has enjoyed the pleasure of celebrity and many video views and viral views. Taylor Swift is on Google Plus G+.  Taylor visited California and the Google/YouTube campus in for a Q&A session called “YouTube Presents” with Kevin Allocca.  There were over 30,000 questions submitted by YouTube fans for the event held in Sept. 2011. She has a major fan following and lots of YouTube likes, comments, and shares.  Her youtube.com/taylorswift videos go viral.

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