Dan Ackerman Greenberg wrote a guest post on TechCrunch talking about his job at The Comotion Group to create a "viral hit" out of a given YouTube video advertising his client.
Creating popular videos has a lot less to do with the quality of the content, Dan says, and a lot with what basically comes down to deceitful, spammy tactics. Like using fake headlines for the video, or creating multiple accounts in a forum or on YouTube to then stir up a fake controversy about the video. "Every power user on YouTube has a number of different accounts," Dan says, adding elsewhere, "You simply can"t expect to post great videos on YouTube and have them go viral on their own."
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Google Blogoscoped>>Publish Date: 11/24/2007 7:30:32 AM
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