Single Grain

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Before we dive into the “how” of creating a stunning infographic and helping to make it go viral, let's start with the “why” Here are some great statistics that prove infographics are still a great content marketing investment: Articles with infographics got 178% more links than standard articles.

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Contently

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

His company, Dollar Shave Club, rose from obscurity in 2012 after he created a YouTube video called “Our Blades Are F ing Great.” Brands love to talk about going viral; Dubin actually did it. The brand’s success was about more than just going viral or getting lucky. That’s quite the fairy tale, right?

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Convince & Convert

JULY 23, 2012

The London 2012 Olympics from July 27th to August 12th are going to be the most covered sporting event in our world’s history. ESPN’s SportsNation is a television program that features viral sports video and interactive public polling. I wrote the majority of this piece from my hotel room in New Orleans while at NABJ 2012.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Organic, paid and viral reach. Viral reach is the number of unique users who saw your Facebook content because one of their friends engaged with it by liking, commenting, or sharing it. Although these measures of reach are less common than organic, paid and viral reach, they can still be incredibly useful.

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Webbiquity

AUGUST 28, 2012

Find the answers to those questions and many more here in almost three dozen of the best social media tips, how-to guides, lists and reports of 2012 so far. How do we demonstrate the ROI of social efforts? Social Media Marketing Tips, Tactics & Techniques. Dr. Seuss’ 7 social media lessons by Ragan’s PR Daily.

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Content Standard

AUGUST 2, 2017

So it goes with viral trends, including viral marketing. Whether it’s a product like the fidget spinner or an Internet meme, virality can come and go in the blink of an eye. When a brand hits the viral jackpot, it can be transformative. Lesson 1: Viral Trends Are Hard to Predict.

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Marketing Insider Group

AUGUST 29, 2019

The video went viral and is part of the story behind the launch of the award-winning website Health Essentials , one of the best content marketing examples you will ever find. When she began the process in 2012, the website was launching. Her team took what was initially an internal video, released it to the public.

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The Lead Agency

JUNE 7, 2018

Since the rise of social media, the concept of ‘going viral’ has captured the imaginations of digital marketers across the globe. In the following article we will look to current research on viral content and look at what it really takes to make an impression in a digital world. What Do We Mean By ‘Going Viral’?

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Convince & Convert

APRIL 11, 2014

It was that viral. Bob’s son, Jerry, went to Central Europe with his mother and half-brother in 2012. Tweetable Moments It really was people. bringjerryhome Tweet This Trial by Fire Bob Pfeifer used social media to bring his son home.

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Crimson Marketing

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Social promotion has been on the rise since 2012. SlideShare has seen a rise from 23% usage in 2012 to 40% of B2B marketers using it for content distribution in 2013. Image: Courtesy of Virally Blog. Google+ and Slideshare Will Become Essential for B2B Content Marketers. Forbes ). Corporate Marketing Other Interesting Topics'

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 18, 2011

companies will spend $1.676 billion on email in 2012. But in other ways, it’s largely the same. Let’s compare email marketing and social media. Market Size. According to Forrester Research, U.S. They’ll spend $1.649 billion on social media.

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Crimson Marketing

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Social promotion has been on the rise since 2012. SlideShare has seen a rise from 23% usage in 2012 to 40% of B2B marketers using it for content distribution in 2013. Image: Courtesy of Virally Blog. Google+ and Slideshare Will Become Essential for B2B Content Marketers. Forbes ). Corporate Marketing'

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NuSpark Consulting

MARCH 1, 2012

The passing of Davy Jones on February 29, 2012 has given me some time to reflect on the phenomenon on what the Monkees were at the time, and the role of marketing played in turning actors to beloved and still well-known musicians to this day. Davy wasn’t “liked”, “followed, ” or “shared.”

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

MARCH 14, 2012

by Seth Resler On March 5th, the non-profit organization Invisible Children posted a video online called “Kony 2012.” So what content marketing tips can we learn from the Kony 2012 campaign? 4 Content Marketing Lessons from the Kony 2012 Campaign was posted at Modern B2B Marketing - Marketo Best Practices Blog. | [link].

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Martech Advisor

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

By March, TheFacebook had gone viral at Ivy League universities such as Yale and Columbia. They also filed for an IPO in 2012. Here are the top three of Facebook’s acquisitions: Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion in April 2012. The charges were later dropped. The Early Days. a virtual reality company for $2 billion.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 7, 2012

One of the main draws of using a site like Genius Rocket to crowdsource a commercial or viral video is the number of options to choose from along the way. You would tell everyone you know to tell everyone you know because you’d be invested in it. Crowdsourcing offers you diversity and creative choice.

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Contently

MAY 23, 2016

For instance, on Thursday evening, one of our recent posts—” 13 Works of Classic Literature With Upworthy Titles “—started going viral on the /r/books subreddit. Over the years, our magazine has transformed, as my boss Sam Slaughter put it, from “a ratchet ‘zine of 2012 to a beautiful 160-pager.”

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Contently

MAY 1, 2018

In 2012, however, animator Johnny Kelly made the fast food industry look like a child’s nightmare, positioning Chipotle as the savior of cute little pigs and cows. Her short “Hey Stranger” went viral in 2017. Johnny Kelly’s “Back to the Start” for Chipotle. ?.

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SnapApp

AUGUST 8, 2012

Now that it's the beginning of August, you may have already planned or taken your 2012 summer vacation. Bear in mind, when looking at these unique app features, that Luxury Link's #1 goal for this campaign is to have the app go viral. And now you're wondering what your next trip will be in order to escape from reality for a little bit.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2017

That’s what Asos did for their Winter 2012 campaign which won them a —one of the highest honors that can be bestowed upon advertisers and marketers—and additionally, a cool £5m in sales. While looking for top trending content, it’s essential to bring all the knowledge you have about your audience to the table and use every bit of it.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2012

I have my weekly rant on social media, my thought of the week, Eric, and it is all about this Kony 2012 video. You saw the crazy, fastest video of all time, the most viral thing ever invented? Jay: Something north of 100 million views now, officially the most viral video ever. You saw the video? Here’s my problem.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 22, 2012

I have my weekly rant on social media, my thought of the week, Eric, and it is all about this Kony 2012 video. You saw the crazy, fastest video of all time, the most viral thing ever invented? Jay: Something north of 100 million views now, officially the most viral video ever. You saw the video? Here’s my problem.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

And while none of my posts “went viral,” I am engaging with thousands of new readers each month on that platform as well. This popular article is a deeper dive into Marc Andreessen’s now-famous Wall Street Journal essay from 2012 on “ Why Software Is Eating The World.”

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Scoop.it

JANUARY 7, 2021

This was the issue that Death Wish Coffee, a company based in Saratoga Springs, NY, faced back in 2012. Make Use of Viral Trends. Tide used this viral trend to advertise their product, and their Tweet got a lot of attention, as a result: Image credit: Twitter.

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Marketing Insider Group

OCTOBER 21, 2015

2012 to 2014 really built industry momentum. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/virally. I legitimately went blind after looking at this for an hour. This now-blanket term includes visual marketing platforms, content creation agencies, video content platforms, and UGC software. The Content Marketing Investment Build Up.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Virality and reach will become less important, and marketers will instead focus on better segmenting and targeting capabilities, enhanced with the help of AI. Check out our forecasts for 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , and 2017 , to see what we got right, and where we went way off track.

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BuzzSumo

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Back in 2012 Hubspot kicked off the debate with data showing that as the number of monthly blog posts increased so did traffic and inbound leads. Viral Marketing Case Study: How a Brand New Blog Generated 17,584 Visitors In One Day. Viral Marketing Case Study: How a Brand New Blog Generated 17,584 Visitors In One Day.

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Contently

OCTOBER 5, 2016

When Apple released iOS 6 in 2012, the tech world flipped out over Apple Maps, the company’s late-to-the-game GPS directions app. Better data may also lead to a new philosophy that values quantity and virality over quality. “I Much of the press about the release criticized the software , especially in comparison to Google Maps.

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KoMarketing Associates

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

As B2B marketers work on refining 2012 strategic marketing initiatives, social media has become a central focus. The report identifies additional reasons search engine advertising should not get sacrificed, including: There is no assurance “earned” and “owned” media will go viral.

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Content Standard

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

You’ve never done a viral marketing campaign before, and you don’t know where to start. For anyone who doesn’t know how the sausage is made, this seems like a reasonable request: hey, a brand did this huge viral campaign—let’s do one, too! Can we start something like that?” ” You blink twice.

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Biznology

MARCH 20, 2018

I hope you enjoy this historical perspective via all the posts that I’ve written since way back in 2012. Today is one of those best-of Chris Abraham’s blog posts on blogger outreach, long tail blogger outreach, influencer marketing , and micro-influencer marketing. The state of the blogger outreach union ten years on.

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Marketing Insider Group

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

It was produced to educate children on train safety and quickly became a social and viral sensation after it was released late last year. He won the 2012 Gordon E. Dumb Ways To Die is a hilarious public service announcement from Metro Trains of Melbourne Australia. The video has racked up 65 Million pageviews on YouTube.

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Single Grain

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Work With Us How Influencer Marketing Platform Instagram Launched SkinnyMeTea Instagram was still an emerging platform back in 2012, not many ecommerce brands (or any brands) were on there at all. Vertical accounts are much easier to grow because you can do things like leverage viral trending content. Is there scarcity?

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SocialPilot

MARCH 5, 2024

Organic reach on Facebook has been at all-time low since 2012, so if you are looking to increase your reach drastically on the platform, you need to resort to Facebook ads for the needed boost. The total impressions are represented under the Viral tag. The impression metric is an excellent way to find out the virality of a post.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 18, 2016

I started out with very little knowledge of what worked well, and my only presentation was one created back in 2012. Don’t get me wrong—I know it’s not possible to predict virality, but we can most certainly gather the information required to know what’s more likely to be shared. I built it from scratch.

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Marketing Insider Group

MARCH 31, 2014

It was launched in 2012 to provide a platform for internal and external thought leadership. And it’s certainly NOT about making “viral videos.” And their own business grew as a result. New business has to be earned. Publishing is the cost. At SAP, we modeled our own site Business Innovation after this.

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Biznology

JULY 28, 2014

billion active users worldwide, and an increase of 92 percent when it comes to shared content since 2012. Specifically, viral reach has been reined in – frustrating marketers who are seeing a dip in engagement rates with their content. Facebook reports 1.23

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