What are some viral video ideas?

A viral video is a video clip that becomes extremely popular and spreads over the Internet through users sharing it in email messages or through an instant messaging service. Many of these videos are funny and are often shot by amateurs capturing something funny on their camera phones. There have been many viral videos that have caught fire in the cyber world.

YouTube is directly responsible for much of the proliferation of viral videos. Once a video spreads well, it can get a lot of attention from the video creator. Take, for example, the famous “leave Britney alone” video that landed its star on the late-night talk shows. Many people thought it was real, but what was real was the clever way the video star used her YouTube account to get attention.

If you’re an internet marketer, I’m sure the gears are already turning in your head. How can this work for my product? If you want to create a viral video that will bring you and your product real attention, there are a couple of things you need to make sure your video has to make it more likely to go viral.

The first thing to think about when you are creating your viral video is the length. Internet viewers have ridiculously short attention spans. If a viral video is longer than thirty seconds, it’s too long. I know what you are already thinking, what can you say in thirty seconds with your viral video? Don’t worry about promoting your product in the viral video, just make sure it grabs attention first.

Make sure your video can be remixed. I’m pretty sure it’s not even a word, but it probably will be soon. People love to play with videos and you should give everyone a chance to do so. It will increase your chances of the video going viral.

Don’t make a trade. His intention with his viral video is to draw the attention of the viewers and spread it. If viewers feel like your video is nothing more than a commercial for your product, they will immediately turn off and not send it to others. You would have to create a really outstanding video to overcome the marketability factor.

Make your video something quite impactful. It will have to be something that a viewer only has to look at. The title should be enough that a viewer immediately needs to know what’s in that video.

Have some pretty people appear in your video if you find that you can’t think of anything else. People love looking at pretty people.

This is just the beginning of your viral video campaign. Once you have made your video, now the hard work of publishing and viewing it will begin. Your goal is to get as many people to watch the video as possible and to keep those people coming back to your website or blog. There are some techniques that are very similar to posting articles that will work for viral videos. Explore all of your options for showing your video to viewers. It’s just no longer possible for a video to go viral on its own. There are too many of them out there. It would have to be a truly outstanding music video for that to happen. Use the marketing techniques you’ve been using all along. Send it to your email list, discuss it in forums, and give it to bloggers. In short, do what you have to do.