links for 2007-11-23

The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos

A good overview of tactics to generate views for videos. However, a few of these tactics cross the line on what is considered appropriate (e.g., like pay per post without disclosing it’s pay per post). I wonder why TechCrunch allowed this to be posted?

(tags: traffic videos)

23 November 2007 | del.icio.us | Comments

One Response to “links for 2007-11-23”

1 Jeff Hunt 24 November 2007 @ 10:34 am

Paying for views is only part of the problem. Many of these “tricks” seem to violate the very principles of this new media environment. As soon as consumers figure out that they are being manipulated by marketing tactics like many of those described, I predict they will shut out much of this content, unless it is just extremely entertaining.