Clients often say, “we want to create a viral video.” It’s easy to create a video, it’s hard to create one that takes off.
There are several things that can help a video to take off, here are a few of them:
- it has to be compelling (this might be oddly funny i.e. NUMA NUMA, timely i.e Paris Hilton’s response to John McCain, heart-warming like the late Randy Pausch’s last lecture, or just oddly compelling like the Daft Punk girl)
- a story arc – albeit short – not all videos have them but it can help
- something people can identify with
- safe for work – most people view online video at work, don’t make them feel like they’re going to be fired for watching
- a core audience – who is going to start the video moving? There has to be some core group that cares about the content, then it can move beyond them
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