Emotions to use when creating a viral video

Finding the right tone for your videos isn’t a piece of cake. It requires work, effort and time to find the emotions that will capture an audience’s attention. Discover Shopify’s top 5 characteristics that a viral video can fall under, to make your viral video planning process that little bit easier.

How to Make a Video Go Viral

This article is part of the ‘How To Create a Viral Video for Your Boring Product’ series by Upscope, a service to effortlessly guide website visitors from sign up to purchase using modern instant screen sharing.

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How to Be Viral

The 5 characteristics that viral videos can fall under:

1. Surprising (unexpected)
2. Interesting
3. Intense
4. Positive
5. Actionable (practically useful)

According to YouTube’s Trends manager, Kevin Allocca, says it takes two groups of people to make a video go viral:

1. Tastemakers- People with influence who share videos with a larger audience.
2. Participators- People who do something new with an already viral video.. For example: A parody

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