Infographics: How Videos Go Viral, and How Social Media Users Watch Video Dan Koelsch, January 27, 2011 Mashable has found two interesting infographics that deal with viral elements. The first one was made by Brian Sieber using data from The Jun Group, and it focuses on how videos go viral. The second is from Lab42, who did a study on how American social medias watch video, specifically television. Take a look after the break. Some of the results above are rather surprising, with females watching more viral videos than men, and Southerners watching more videos than any region. It isn’t surprising, however, to see Facebook as the leading way to share video. How do you learn about and share viral videos? While the answers to this survey seem pretty straight forward and understandable in hindsight, the one thing I took away from this is that newer technology is making it easier for people to watch more television in general. Whether it be the Internet, DVRs, or easy access to DVD sets, more television is available on demand. I was surprised, however, that YouTube dominates the online landscape for watching television shows, especially when there are free or cheap legal alternatives (like Hulu and Netflix) for the mass majority of series. What are your TV watching habits? Do you use any of the websites, or do you DVR? Viral News Chart
Fan Made Work Make Your Own Moving Rorschach Mask December 31, 2010Since Watchmen was released in 2009, Rorschach has been a popular character for fans to dress up as at comic conventions and costume parties. While I have seen some really accurate portrayals of the vigilante, I have never seen a mask with a moving ink blot. That has all changed,… Read More
“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1” Viral Video: District 13 Has A Message For Panem July 9, 2014July 9, 2014It was only a couple of weeks back when Lionsgate launched the revamped viral marketing campaign for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1. Tailored to fit the themes of the third book, the first wave of Mockingjay viral videos came in the form of President Snow (Donald Sutherland) addressing the… Read More
WonderCon 2011: “Star Wars: Last Fan Movie Standing” Crowns Winner April 2, 2011April 2, 2011Every year WonderCon hosts a “Star Wars: The Last Fan Movie Standing” to decide which fan films for the sci-fi classic are the best. This is the contest’s 10th year, and we had a good mix of terrible ones and hilarious ones. After the break, watch both the winner of… Read More
It seems like relatively few small-scale video producers have used viral videos to market the videos they sell, even despite the growing prevalence of social networking sites. The site FargoTube.com hosts videos, allows the copyright owner — whether amateur or professional — to charge, and provides social-networking functions that promote sharing.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the responses to the question about the hours of TV watched are actually understating the total. Depending on the question order, most people probably did not think of catching an episode of Psyche on Hulu as “watching TV”. Seeing a show on the big screen tethered to a cable is likely what most of them had in mind.