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Viral videos: financial reality trumps ethics?

What happens when you have a video go seriously viral? A media frenzy ensued and ultimately Kim’s video was seen by tens of millions of people around the world.

How journalists behave when your video goes viral

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How journalists behave when your video goes viral

How journalists behave when your video goes viral Journalist Marc Settle found his video suddenly of great interest to a wider new media than just his employer, the BBC: Broadly,

Influence and power in the age of the YouTube celebrity

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Influence and power in the age of the YouTube celebrity

YouTube celebrities – like comicbookgirl19 above – are the fastest growing media stars of our age, yet a group much of the mainstream media seems utterly unaware of. There’s an interesting

The company that makes money from everyone's viral videos

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The company that makes money from everyone's viral videos

A day at work watching YouTube videos: A guy in a hamster suit falling over at a children’s birthday party also gets the nod. It reminds him of a

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TED Talk from the year 2023

This is marvellous: It’s a piece of marketing for Ridley Scott’s forthcoming Prometheus (a prequel, of sorts, to the Alien movies). I do hope that TED talks are this cool in 11 years…

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Why Videos Go Viral

Bear this in mind next time someone tries to sell you viral video production services: [via Lee Smallwood]

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Tweeting a Mountain out of a Molehill

Oh, oh so that’s what the whole Friday / Rebecca Black twitter business is about. There are times when Twitter completely embodies the phrase “making a mountain out of a molehill”.

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OK Gone

Love this: OK Go ditches record label because they won’t allow embedding of music videos. If you publisher won’t promote you properly, why should you stay?

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TEDxTuttle: Measuring Social Media

**[![TEDxTuttle](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/IMG_1272-thumb-500x136-1438.jpg?resize=500%2C136)](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/09/IMG_1272.jpg)****Eigenfactor** – not just how many, but who they are. **Betweenness** – I have

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Behind the Scenes at Today

Behind closed doors at Radio 4’s flagship news show…

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How Observant Are You?

Lovely idea, lovely execution, and a great example of viral marketing: [Via [Open](http://open.typepad.com/open/2008/03/awareness-test.html)]