Can Your Viral Web Video Generate Buzz Like This?
Let me set the stage. Take approximately a dozen teenagers with the parents of one of the teenagers away on vacation for 10 days. Then, over 7 days, those teenagers engineered what can only be considered the best slip n slide I’ve ever seen. It sounds like a scene from Risky Business, doesn’t it? Well, the end-result was risky, since any one of the teenagers involved could have been seriously injured. But, like hundreds of thousands of other viewers on the web, I was glued to the 5 minute viral video that you can view on SpikedHumor.com, YouTube, or several other social media sites. Read on.What is Ron’s Slip n Slide Extravaganza?
You actually have to see it to believe it, but imagine a 60 foot slip and slide built on the side of a house (yes, you begin your slip and slide journey on top of a house!) Then, you slide down a 60 foot slide and hit the jump, which propels you 16-20 feet across the yard into a small inflatable pool. Sound crazy? It is...but you have to give the guys who were involved credit. It is simply amazing to watch them fly through the air after speeding down the 60 foot slip and slide. Some land perfectly in the pool, and as you can probably guess, others don’t! Shot and edited by one of the teenagers, you will be impressed with their video production. And I bet you’ll watch the entire video…I didn’t intend to and then it was over before I knew it. :)
View the best slip n slide ever created here.
The Viral Video Results:
As of today, there have been 256,648 views on YouTube and 57,464 views on SpikedHumor.com and my guess is that those numbers will keep going up… So I ask you, would you like 314,112 people glued to a video that you produced? Maybe something tied to one of your products or company? Yes, I’m sure you would as long as it's not negative, right?? :)
User Generated Content (UGC)
Now, many of the best viral videos are not created by companies or agencies. They are produced by the average person out there who just wants to capture something funny, disturbing, amazing, etc. This is one of those cases. Actually, this video was both hilarious and disturbing at the same time. There are so many companies clamoring to create the same effect, but it’s hard to do when you stage it… You can do it, but it’s not easy.
So, have you created a viral web video that generated results like Ron’s Slip and Slide Extravaganza? And hopefully without hurting anyone? If so, post the link below. We’d love to see it.
GG
Labels: Flash Video, Rich Media, social-media, Viral, WOM
posted by Glenn Gabe @ 5:22 AM
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