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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

FINAL WORDSStart Your Own Epidemic

Be True.

Don’t Waste My Time.

Be Unforgettable.

And, Ultimately, It’s All About Humanity.

These are our four principles for creating viral video. They’re remarkably simple, and they work.

You don’t have to hit every rule perfectly, but the more you can stick to all four, the more contagious your viral video will be.

Sure, “Be Unforgettable” is a challenge, but we’ve tried to point the way for you. The remaining three principles are easy to follow once you let go of the production tricks that have been honed over decades to work so well for television but can kill your video’s chances of going viral.

This isn’t television. This is the twenty-first-century sideshow.

Be True: We know that it can be tempting to ...

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ISBN: 9780071803380