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This week on Inside PR, Martin, Gini and Joe discuss viral videos and Quora, the question and answer website that everyone is talking about.
0:27 Martin opens the show.
1:32 Martin shares a story about talking social media with his local MP.
2:55 Gini starts off with the first topic of the episode: The homeless man with golden voice.
4:38 Martin thinks it’s a great example of the kind of videos that go viral.
6:38 Joe reminds us that there is no set formula for a viral video.
9:30 Joe thinks videos go viral because the appeal to a particular interest or cultural background. Unless you create a video with that in mind, it’s unlikely to be successful.
10:12 Martin recalls a panel he saw at South by South West Interactive and they gave three tips about making a great video: 1) develop a great story, 2) the production values need to match your story and 3) distribution and promotion.
11:34 Joe talks about the second topic of the show: Quora.com, a question and answer website and community. He thinks it’s a great research tool.
14:05 Gini wonders whether Quora is a social network or an open, unmoderated content reference website?
16:07 Joe says Quora is becoming a lot like a social network as it’s pure discussion, but on searchable answer basis.
16:30 Martin has recently signed up and is looking forward to playing with the website.
17:20 Martin closes the show.
Our theme music was created by Damon de Szegheo; Roger Dey is our announcer.
This week’s episode was produced by Yasmine Kashefi.
just catching up on old episodes and the discussion on “making” viral video was really good.
One thing that I think needs to be pointed out about viral video is that you never know what’s going to hit it big… and while there are things you can do like capture something funny or unexpected in the footage, I think that anyone setting out to achieve the result of having a video go viral – and we need to be clear that viral is a result, not really a strategy – needs to be putting up many different things.
Sometimes you gotta plan to through a bunch of stuff at the wall and see what sticks and I believe that you should be planning for this instead of perhaps trying to pin all of your hopes and dreams on one video execution.
Great topic discussions! First podcast I’ve heard here, it is very interesting to listen and explore the things you were talking about, such as quora and the opportunities that opened up for the man with the “golden voice”.
KEEP IT UP!