{"id":1708,"date":"2010-06-25T09:42:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalstudios.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/1969\/12\/31\/the-end-of-viral\/"},"modified":"2019-05-13T18:25:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T02:25:23","slug":"the-end-of-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/the-end-of-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"The End Of Viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Asked what the current industry &#8220;threshold&#8221; is for a corporate video to be deemed &#8220;viral,&#8221; Feed Co.&#8217;s Josh Warner responded that it might be time to retire the term altogether.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Viral is a myth,&#8221; he told an attendee at OMMA Social in New York. &#8220;I&#8217;m over viral completely and utterly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead of planning for a viral result, Warner said he tells Feed Co.&#8217;s clients to &#8220;dig deep to get quality engagements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can go out and pound views through a [media] buy,&#8221; he said, adding that ultimately that will just get you a paid media campaign. He even suggested that a popular industry viral video chart should be re-branded as a &#8220;paid media chart,&#8221; because most of the campaigns on top of it are actually paid media campaigns, not naturally occurring viral upticks&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=https:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/blogs\/raw\/?p=2968 target=_blank rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/blogs\/raw\/?p=2968<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;Asked what the current industry &#8220;threshold&#8221; is for a corporate video to be deemed &#8220;viral,&#8221; Feed Co.&#8217;s Josh Warner responded that it might be time to retire the term altogether. &#8220;Viral is a myth,&#8221; he told an attendee at OMMA Social in New York. &#8220;I&#8217;m over viral completely and utterly.&#8221; Instead of planning for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2010\/06\/25\/the-end-of-viral\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The End Of Viral&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2174,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/2174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}