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6 Research-Based Insights About Viral Content

Cision

If you’re like me, you probably greet articles about content virality with a healthy dose of skepticism. Of course anyone writing content or posting on social media hopes for the largest possible distribution, but the articles that purport to tell you how to make content go viral are oftentimes less useful than they intend to be.

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5 Scariest Halloween Campaigns of the Past Decade

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Consumers are spending more and more each year on Halloween, with an increase from $8.4 In 2012, LG wanted to show the world how lifelike its new range of IPS monitors was, so they put a series of nine monitors on the elevator floor. This video quickly went viral and has more than 40 million views on YouTube. billion to $9.1

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7 Rules for a New Era of Communications

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Works like Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow” (2011) and Jonathan Haidt’s “The Righteous Mind” (2012) show that they — and our target audiences — are not. Studies have shown anger to be the most viral emotion, but anger destroys and divides. Awe is the second most viral emotion. The importance of elephant-whispering.

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What Compels People to Share Your Content?

Waxing UnLyrical

A Harvard marketing professor named Thales Texeira has done some recent studies of content virality and sharing. In his research on viral advertising videos , he found that a very small percentage of advertising videos (0.1%) actually go “viral.” His findings are pretty illuminating. Why we share.

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How Digital PR Pros Can Cope with Recent Google Search Updates

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For instance, 48% of consumers start mobile research with a search engine and on an average, smartphone conversions are up by 64% as compared to the average desktop conversion rates. Launched in April 2012, Google’s Penguin update was aimed at sites which spammed search results.

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What’s New In B2B Tech PR For 2017

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As almost 200,000 folks get ready for their annual excursion to Las Vegas for CES (Consumer Electronics Show) , those of us who toil in B2B tech public relations will be looking for 2017 trends to better take advantage of industry moves and stake out positions for clients. PR will embrace paid media. B2B content must be shareable.

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6 Best Practices for Identifying and Reacting to a PR Crisis

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In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” ” You know, the stock that was worth $38 in 2012 and is (as of this writing) worth $107. Referenced in this post: 2012. 4309: 84-85.

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