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The Viral Video Manifesto: Why Everything You Know is Wrong and How to Do What Really Works
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The Viral Video Manifesto: Why Everything You Know is Wrong and How to Do What Really Works

by Stephen Voltz, Fritz Grobe
November 2012
Beginner
240 pages
4h 59m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from The Viral Video Manifesto: Why Everything You Know is Wrong and How to Do What Really Works

CHAPTER 3Show Me Something Real

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The easiest way to be true is to show us real people having real reactions to real events. What actually happens when you drop 500 Mentos mints into 100 bottles of Coke as we did in The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments? What happens when you really send 250,000 superballs bouncing down a hill in San Francisco as Sony Bravia did in its Balls video (4.9 million views)? And what really happens behind the scenes on the TV news as we saw in What News Anchors Do During Commercial Breaks (3 million views)?

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ISBN: 9780071803380