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The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Fireworks & Bloopers

This was an especially difficult week to group the videos together according to a common theme. While there were plenty of viral video success stories this week, it was about as diverse a bunch as I've ever seen. We have accident videos, we have animal ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons: Time-Lapse Edition

It's Friday again, and you know what that means: no one wants to concentrate on work, and everyone's already in weekend play-time mode. So why not help ease that transition with something that is equal parts work and entertainment, the ReelSEO viral video round up? ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Toy Story Edition

It's Friday, and if you're anything like me, that means you wish it was Friday night already. Unfortunately, an entire work day stands between you and the official start of the weekend. But I've got your back. I've collected the week's best viral videos from ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons:

We've had quite a crazy week in the world of viral video. We saw rioting, lots of swearing, strange animal behavior, and even some clever video marketing from well-known brands.  In case you missed any of the week's most buzzed-about clips--or in case you're merely ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Parodies & Heartwarmers

Another week is in the books (well, almost), so it's time to sit back, enjoy that morning coffee, and watch some of the most popular viral videos of the week. As usual, we have entries from savvy brands as well as clueless amateurs, which is ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Musical Multitasking

What makes a video go viral? What triggers the act of sharing a clip on Facebook or Twitter? Generally, it's emotion: laughter, tears, surprise, shock, etc. It's not enough to create pretty images or great special effects if the audience doesn't feel anything when your ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Explosive Amateur Footage

If I showed you the list of potential videos for this week's round up, you guys would certainly begin to worry about me. I have a problem. I can't stop finding, collecting, and watching online videos. Thankfully, my responsibilities here at ReelSEO allow me to ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Unique Perspectives

The content pool is growing, I think. When I first started writing this weekly viral video round up column, I would flag maybe seven or eight videos throughout the week as potential examples for us to talk about. This week... I had over 60. So ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

This technically marks the second viral video round up article of the week, since I also wrote a Monday Morning Grindhouse post as well. And if you enjoyed that... the good news is that it looks like I'll be continuing that as a regular series ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

In the world of online video, this will probably go down in history as Rebecca Black week. Whether she wanted to or not, she took over the whole darn Internet with her "Friday" video, the Good Morning America interview, and then Jay Leno on top ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

Is it really Friday already? Another week is in the books, and it's time to round up the best of the viral success stories from this week. We have animals (honestly, you simply can't publish a list of top viral videos without including animal clips ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

I wrote yesterday about the discovery problem with online video.  There's so much video being uploaded at such a rapid pace that it's literally impossible for every video to have an even chance to be found. The average viewer has neither the time nor the ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

Happy Friday everyone. It's been a long week for me, and I'm looking forward to the weekend. Your weekend comes a little early, in the form of the weekly viral video round up. I've got another great collection of clips that went viral this week---each ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

Every week I keep a running list of great viral videos I've come across for use in this column, and in the nearly two years I've been writing it, I've never had a list of videos worth sharing that was as long as this week's. ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

The week after the Super Bowl, you might expect this column to be filled with some of the best commercials from the big game. But you would be wrong. I wrote about the ads themselves on Monday, and most of us have already watched and ...