2012 Viral Writing 
Cision
APRIL 4, 2016
If you’re like me, you probably greet articles about content virality with a healthy dose of skepticism. Of course anyone writing content or posting on social media hopes for the largest possible distribution, but the articles that purport to tell you how to make content go viral are oftentimes less useful than they intend to be.
Cision
MAY 12, 2017
Launched in April 2012, Google’s Penguin update was aimed at sites which spammed search results. Writing compelling content will always come to your rescue and so will the re=“nofollow” attribute for the links, especially in articles, blogs, guest posts, and press releases. This will prevent bad links from passing PageRank.
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Waxing UnLyrical
FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Facebook insists it has the answer: write better content. A Harvard marketing professor named Thales Texeira has done some recent studies of content virality and sharing. In his research on viral advertising videos , he found that a very small percentage of advertising videos (0.1%) actually go “viral.”
PRSay
JANUARY 6, 2021
We even write emails with more thought. Works like Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking Fast and Slow” (2011) and Jonathan Haidt’s “The Righteous Mind” (2012) show that they — and our target audiences — are not. Studies have shown anger to be the most viral emotion, but anger destroys and divides. Awe is the second most viral emotion.
Cision
MARCH 1, 2016
In the Journal of Marketing Management, a group of British researchers write that crisis communication has “implications for brand equity and consumers’ purchase intentions.” They write: “Facebook’s IPO is a flop.” Writing recently in Public Relations Tactics, John J. Identifying a PR crisis.
ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications
DECEMBER 21, 2016
Between 2012 and 2014, organic social reach dropped from 16% to 6% –and wise PR counselors know they have to bite the “paid” bullet if they wanted to maximize social content. Paid reach has its place, but we’re still chasing “viral” or highly shareable content. Organize before you write.
Contently - Strategy
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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