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Creating Socialised Content

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Creating Socialised Content

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Most content won’t ever “go viral”

2 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every second.

This includes TV shows, music videos advertising and user-generated content.

And your commercial content.

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Big Seed

Approach

Make something beautiful and compelling (i.e. invest heavily in content)

Pay for seeding

Stagger seeding across multiple channels to reach incremental audience

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Incentives

Approach

Reward or require engagement & pass-along behaviour.

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False Scarcity/Early Access Invitation Systems

Approach

Restricting access can make content more desirable.

Make sharing a valuable social action.

Most often used by web app vendors.

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Big Niche

Approach

Certain content is just more likely to be shared on the web:

Cats & kittens. Star Wars. Apple. Lego. Unicorns. Mashups. Autotune. Trick shots. Infographics.

And anything about Twitter will be shared on Twitter.

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Face-in-the-Game

Approach

People want to promote themselves, and they’re prepared to let brands help.

Make the content about them, and they’ll share it.

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Celebrity content

Approach

Old Spice combines multiple approaches: Big Seed, Big Niche, and Face-in-the-Game.

But don’t underestimate the celebrity content.