Polaris

MARCH 6, 2015

Did you ever wonder why one YouTube sensation is able to turn a viral video into a sustainable business while most flame out after a one-hit wonder? the protagonist in Spielberg’s movie Catch Me If You Can , as an example. Citing stories from politics, business, sports and entertainment, Snow builds a compelling case for his thesis.

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Contently - Strategy

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

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. Content marketers in all industries can learn from these examples. If you’re B2C, help them enjoy personal passions (travel, fitness, wellness, food, sports, etc.)

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NewsWhip

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We see an example of this every Thanksgiving with a story about a grandmother accidentally inviting a stranger to dinner , which goes viral each year because they’ve kept their tradition alive.

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Mindful Marketing

DECEMBER 20, 2023

As we talked about the issue, one of the first things that came to my mind was Sports Illustrated’s recent moral lapse. The iconic magazine about all things athletic ran afoul of public opinion on a viral scale when it apparently used artificial intelligence to write articles that it attributed to human beings.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 4, 2014

The Harlem Shake dance video craze largely took off based on the whims of students, employees and other everyday folk interested in making a funny viral video. Creating a sport around your brand may be the most sophisticated gamification on the planet. So which one garnered more interest according to Google trends?

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Prohibition

APRIL 18, 2023

Amongst the many opportunities available to food and drink brands, online video has been shown to consistently deliver results, with plenty of examples to back that claim up. Each piece of social media content demonstrates the very peak of human condition, usually through athletic accomplishment and sporting activities.

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Mindful Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

by David Hagenbuch - professor of Marketing at Messiah University - ​author of Honorable Influence - founder of Mindful Marketing A teenage football player’s verbal hits on an MVP NFL quarterback led amateur and professional sports analysts alike to call a personal foul. ‘Who taught the young man to talk that way?’

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Mindful Marketing

JULY 4, 2020

During a time focused on re-opening the economy after the onset of a viral pandemic, there are glaring signs that the United States is suffering from another type of pandemic—racism. The issue outlined here is just one example of the insidious ways that racism operates in marketing.

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Buzzstream

JULY 10, 2024

You can take the Daily Mail as an example, which really clearly has a travel section defined in the URL structure. You’ve got sports, lifestyle, and fashion. To your sports site, or you’ve got a link coming from the politics section, coming to your site, which one of those is the better link?

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Presspage

AUGUST 24, 2023

The principle categorizes content into three main types: ‘Hero’ content aims to create viral, high-impact (video) content, often tied to significant events or campaigns, to attract a massive audience. Hub’ content refers to regularly scheduled, thematic content that retain and engage subscribers, encouraging them to return for fresh content.

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PR in High Definition

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The problem is that many of them offer a general service whereby they cover multiple topics to fulfil the needs of the publication – for example, they’re not simply health reporters covering developments in the health sector, but instead might cover health alongside all sorts of different types of consumer stories.

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Buzzstream

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

So, um, a lot of local newspaper and TV, they’re owned by a few corporations and we’re seeing a lot of the growth of syndication networks, a good example that I could share really quick. Uh, I was working on a story, um, yesterday, uh, about, you know, I’m, I like to use examples. Like, I see you nodding your head.

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Doctor Spin

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Over time, values tend to revert to the average, a concept relevant in many areas, from sports performance to business metrics. For example, if you keep removing grains of sand from a heap, when does it stop being a heap? Continue reading 9 I’ve written about this mental model in How To Build a Viral Loop (Using Mathematics).

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Doctor Spin

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Over time, values tend to revert to the average, a concept relevant in many areas, from sports performance to business metrics. For example, if you keep removing grains of sand from a heap, when does it stop being a heap? Viral Loops (or How to Incentivise Social Media Sharing). Continue reading 13 Silfwer, J. 2017, February 6).

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Taylor Swift is a PR mastermind of the highest order,” confirms writer Chris Ostendorf, in his Daily Dot commentary titled, The PR Genius of Taylor Swift’s Viral Media Empire. Dick’s Sporting Goods, which ramped up staff when social posts from customers highlighted weak in-store customer service just before closing hours.

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Journalistics

MARCH 18, 2016

With Yellowberry, when our founder launched the business and it went viral via the Kickstarter community, we embraced fans and used them as part of the story. At the PGA, we leverage sponsors, players and events for example to help us tell our story. I’m currently keeping an eye on Peach to see if it takes off for example.

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Journalistics

MARCH 18, 2016

With Yellowberry, when our founder launched the business and it went viral via the Kickstarter community, we embraced fans and used them as part of the story. At the PGA, we leverage sponsors, players and events for example to help us tell our story. I’m currently keeping an eye on Peach to see if it takes off for example.

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David PR Group

JULY 21, 2014

We can make our own videos which can “go viral” and reach millions of eyeballs. I have been noodling over this topic for a while but a couple pieces of communications caught my attention in the past week which are prime examples of the power of storytelling. The first was LeBron James’ “ essay” in Sports Illustrated.

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MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Yet, few have asked the more urgent question that faces all brands in this era when smartphones guarantee that a spokes-celebrity’s scandals will be documented for viral eternity: Why wait to act until a brand’s spokesperson is arrested, convicted and imprisoned, his perp walk (and your brand’s collapse) documented across the America?

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Flatiron Communications

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Sure, live sporting events, big-time award shows, live TV talk, and breaking news still have the capacity to draw large, shared audiences in real-time. For example, I recently secured for a client a prominent front page Metro section story in the Miami Herald. Appointment TV has seen better days.

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Flatiron Communications

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Sure, live sporting events, big-time award shows, live TV talk, and breaking news still have the capacity to draw large, shared audiences in real-time. For example, I recently secured for a client a prominent front page Metro section story in the Miami Herald. Appointment TV has seen better days.

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Landis PR

DECEMBER 17, 2024

From viral brand campaigns to technological triumphs, and even a few headline-making missteps, this year offered a masterclass in the power of strategic storytelling and the importance of transparency. By tapping into the participatory culture of platforms like Snapchat and TikTok, Doritos turned its iconic shape into a viral sensation.

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Masters in Communications

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

It can also include Discovery Channel, The History Channel and National Geographic Bonding : This is everything from group chats with family online during the COVID-19 pandemic, shared experiences of sporting events, or the coming together of people following a tragedy, like Hurricane Katrina. Radio has many more uses today.

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NewsWhip

MARCH 22, 2021

Take the Stacey Abrams and Georgia story, for example. The stories are, however, quite different to what went viral on the web and Facebook, with the Capitol insurrection dominating the top posts and not a single mention of Georgia among the top five. Of course, some articles have a different ratio.

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