So you want a viral video.......

So you want a viral video but do you really know what you are asking ?


its a pet hate of mine when i see people say we can help your video go viral. So first of all lets ask the question, what is a viral video ?

Well there is no entry in the dictionary for it so we have to turn to Wikipedia to see what they have to say.


"A viral video is a video that becomes popular through the process of (most often) Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media and email"

 It sound simple right ? after all that's how you get your video watched, but notice the word popular comes up. How popular does it have to be ? I hear you ask. Well fortunately one of the first big YouTube comedians Kevin 'Nalts' Nalty had this to say :

"A few years ago, a video could be considered “viral” if it hit a million views.” But Nalts updated that definition. He said, “A video, I submit, is “viral” if it gets more than 5 million views in a 3-7 day period.


So as you can see it takes a lot of views before your video is considered to have gone viral but the best piece of advice I can give you is that viral videos are not made they happen.