Making video? READ THIS!

Dan Ackerman Greenberg of the Comotion group posted his Secret Strategies behind 'viral' videos on TechCrunch. When I checked, the comments seemed to be questioning the wisdom of such a post.

But if you're serching for that elusive viral video at whatever means his list is as good a place as any to start. Remember 'all's fair in love and war' and we live in an age that loves online video! Have I used any of these 'tricks'? That'd be telling. (One look at my account would show I don't have nearly enough views to be using them!) However, if you want video success know that optimising and cheating are different - even if only slightly!

Out there with the Feminist Mormon Housewives!

Here's a hilarious example of how our media can turn up in the most unexpected of places. I made a video for Remembrance Sunday. It had 'honours' from Youtube - like '#1 - Top Favorites (This Month) - Nonprofits & Activism - United Kingdom'. But sure honours come a go quickly. I checked back on it today and saw it had been linked from a couple of sites.

I clicked one of the links to find myself somewhere I didn't belong! The Feminist Mormon Housewives hadn't embedded my video in their blog but by embedding a related YouTube video mine was appearing on their site once the other one had finished playing. And people had clicked to watched my video.

So what do we learn today?

1. There is such a thing as a Feminist Mormon Housewife
2. You have no idea where a YouTube video will end up

Creating 'Christmelicious'

This is the nearest I've come to 'viral video genius' - so far! A 5 five minute video that got 500,000 views in 5 days - that's equivalent to 5 years of back-to-back plays!

I didn't coin the word 'Christmelicious' - although I know who did. The day I uploaded the video it returned precisely zero results of Google. The word now exists, we created it!