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
Mouth-Taped-Shut.com Reveals New Photos and Artwork for “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” September 21, 2011September 21, 2011If you love ambiguous and perplexing marketing, then you must be following mouth-taped-shut.com, the viral site for David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. So far we’ve seen odd photos and some links to interviews. But in some recent updates, we have seen a brand new poster for the… Read More
Google Viral: Earth Day in Movies and TV April 22, 2010June 12, 2010Happy Earth Day! Today is a great day to go outside and appreciate nature, or take it one step further and find ways to help the environment. The holiday, organized mainly by the Earth Day Network, is celebrating its 40th anniversary, and even Google has taken notice, as you can… Read More
Viral News Viral Video: Barack Obama Is Luke Skywalker January 4, 2011We try not to get political here at MovieViral, but this clip from last night’s The Daily Show is too funny not to share. In it, Jon Stewart compares President Barack Obama to Star Wars‘ Luke Skywalker, after the President has had a rollercoaster public image while in office. Take… 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.