Getting your video on the top of Youtube
It’s not all art, there is a lot of science to it, or so it seems. Check out this very well commented post on Techcrunch called The Secret Strategies Behind Many Viral Videos. So you think all of the top videos are there by accident? If you take a look at the most viewed videos all time there are a lot of brand videos on there for my taste. This made me wonder a few days ago how this happens and the article seems to be a good pointer.
In general, it’s simple. You spam, a quasi legal way. You have several youtube accounts and comment around, you post on forums, pay bloggers to post a video, use 5000-friends-accounts on facebook to distribute the video, … stuff like that. If the video then has a few qualities that the post talks about, you might have yourself a viral video. Congratulations :)