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The Marketer’s Cheat Sheet to Viral Video (as taught by a YouTube superstar)

Kevin Nalts has earned more than 25 million views on YouTube. How can you get visibility like that? Nalts has some tips for you in his excellent blog post, The Marketer’s Cheat Sheet to Viral Video.
Here is Kevin Nalts’ eight-step summary of how to do viral video (slightly condensed):
Step 1: Determine if your [...]

Google introduces “Video Sitemaps” to index third-party video content

Here’s some exciting news for video content creators… Google has launched Video Sitemaps, a tool that allows webmasters to submit video content into the Google search engine(s) more effectively. We’ll be implementing this as a core functionality in the SilverDock application servers shortly.
Why is this exciting? Today, the video-web is similar to the [...]

Viral Videos: a “how to” from the Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal has a short video interview about how innovative small businesses are using “viral video” to get their message out. The interview discusses “best-in-class” viral video strategies by WillItBlend (by Blendtec), Val’s Art Diary, and Moe’s Southwest Grill.
Here is some of the WSJ’s advice on making successful viral videos:

Videos that tend to [...]

Secret Strategies for Viral Video

“Viral video” is the talk of e-commerce these days; everyone’s wondering if they could be the next Will It Blend phemon. In today’s crowded media landscape, though, it’s easier said than done.
That’s why there’s such a storm around a recent TechCrunch post called The Secret Strategies Behind Many Viral Videos. In it, a [...]