Viral marketing campaign tips through youtube

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Viral Marketing Campaign Tips Through Youtube By Daniel Ong Viral marketing. What is it? They are basically referring to marketing campaigns that uses social networks to increase brand awareness. They take the form of ebooks, Youtube videos, images etc.. one very successful accidental viral marketing is the video of a group of youngsters doing an experiment with Coke and Mentos. I'm sure you have seen that one when they shake the bottle of the coke and put the menthos on top. The coke then “explode” out of the bottle. The video has so many views, and there are even many spin off versions of it. This video has successfully gone viral. The most popular form of viral marketing by far is through Youtube. So what can you do to best increase your chance of your video going viral? You have to be creative in going about doing it. Here I will give you viral marketing campaign tips to get you started. Emulate In the above coke menthos video example, it allows the user to learn something new. People marveled at the fact that “this is possible?!”. However it is not everyday that a creative idea such as this pops into everyone minds. For a start, search for videos that have gone viral and do a spin-off but in a different form. The initial few spin-offs of this video has had loads of views too.

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Viral Marketing Campaign Tips Through Youtube

By Daniel Ong

Viral marketing. What is it? They are basically referring to marketing

campaigns that uses social networks to increase brand awareness. They take

the form of ebooks, Youtube videos, images etc.. one very successful

accidental viral marketing is the video of a group of youngsters doing an

experiment with Coke and Mentos. I'm sure you have seen that one when

they shake the bottle of the coke and put the menthos on top. The coke then

“explode” out of the bottle. The video has so many views, and there are even

many spin off versions of it. This video has successfully gone viral. The most

popular form of viral marketing by far is through Youtube.

So what can you do to best increase your chance of your video going viral?

You have to be creative in going about doing it. Here I will give you viral

marketing campaign tips to get you started.

Emulate

In the above coke menthos video example, it allows the user to learn

something new. People marveled at the fact that “this is possible?!”. However

it is not everyday that a creative idea such as this pops into everyone minds.

For a start, search for videos that have gone viral and do a spin-off but in a

different form. The initial few spin-offs of this video has had loads of views

too.

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Utilise Youtubers

If you are introducing a new product, researched Youtube sensations.

For example, if you are selling makeup, you can approach people like

Michelle Phan to help you kick-start your campaign. However, if on a

budget, approach Youtubers that has healthy viewerships. You may be

surprised, but some of these people will actually help to do your campaign

for free if they just be one of first to lay their hands on your product for free.

Utilize these viral marketing campaign tips in your head and you will be on

your way to having successful video campaigns. Good luck!

Author's Bio: Daniel Ong is adept at driving traffic to websites through the

utilization of article marketing. Even though he may not be the original

developer of all the various ways and methods, he has had extensive

experience applying the ways and methods and has achieved credible results.

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Author's Bio: Daniel Ong is adept at driving traffic to websites through the

utilization of article marketing. Even though he may not be the original

developer of all the various ways and methods, he has had extensive

experience applying the ways and methods and has achieved credible results.

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