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Online | Ads of the World. Interactive Marketing Trends. Adverblog - interactive marketing and other great advertising ideas. The Lynx Effect. The Secret Strategies Behind Many "Viral" Videos. Update: Dan has a follow up to this post, here. This guest post was written by Dan Ackerman Greenberg, co-founder of viral video marketing company The Comotion Group and lead TA for the Stanford Facebook Class. Dan will graduate from the Stanford Management Science & Engineering Masters program in June. Have you ever watched a video with 100,000 views on YouTube and thought to yourself: “How the hell did that video get so many views?” Chances are pretty good that this didn’t happen naturally, but rather that some company worked hard to make it happen – some company like mine. When most people talk about “viral videos,” they’re usually referring to videos like Miss Teen South Carolina, Smirnoff’s Tea Partay music video, the Sony Bravia ads, Soulja Boy – videos that have traveled all around the internet and been posted on YouTube, MySpace, Google Video, Facebook, Digg, blogs, etc. – videos with millions and millions of views.

Secret #1: Not all viral videos are what they seem 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Top 10 Sites about Viral Marketing. Viral Videos - 10 New Viral Videos Added Daily At Top10Virals.com. The Top Viral Video Ad Campaigns of the Week (September 06, 2010 - September 12, 2010) | Visible Measures.