How to make a youtube video viral?

My thoughts of videos going viral has always been that you do not "make" a video go viral, it will go viral on its own. And the reason is reality. And it is extremely difficult to create reality. Unless of course you are a news organization

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I don't know if there is a way to make videos go viral. You can help by giving it a catchy title and other things but at the end of the day it needs to engage the viewer and make them want to share.

Have a good concept is the best solution. As said down, if you don't want to make it viral, it can be viral. You may develop your community before make anything.

You should treat your video like a product, and market it like you would a product. And buying fake views aren't worth anything also.

It's actually simple... have a few people each with millions of followers share the video/link. Done.

Casey Neistat and Ben Stiller did this with a few Youtube celebs for a Somalia gofundme fundraiser, they raised $2.7 million. The key here was each Youtube celeb promoted the fundraiser on their own channels which was picked up by the media.

How can you do this? Well, you probably can't without connections.

There are many things involved: content, editing, audience, competition, originality, time, perseverance, network ...

No good business is done in 3 months, there are many factors, including luck and knowledge.

Some good ideas from people here.
I agree with Yukon, this concept has worked with Facebook and Twitter - find someone with a large following.


You will probably need to build a good relationship with them over a length of time, but it could then work to your advantage.


9300 views is a lot of views - I think you should be pleased with that.


Analyse your most successful video and see why it was so popular and then you could try and repeat your success with other videos.


If you can predict a trend or find something that is about to take off and make a video about this your video can go to the top of Google and Youtube.


I have managed to do this with one video and the good thing is that it has stayed at the top of search rankings for months - videos seem to do this.


In my case it was a newly released product.


You can find new products by going in to Google search for "news" and then put "new release"
or "new release date" "product release date".or the month e.g."December release"


Hope this helps.


Ged

Like others have said, you can't "make" a video go viral; however, if you make it interesting, quirky and entertaining, you might stand a good chance.

One type of video that's guaranteed never to go viral is any type of sales video - unless it's very funny. Even then, though, there's no guarantee your target audience will see it for what it is, and will just watch it for the humour.