How to Create a Viral YouTube Video
YouTube is a platform where you can make cool cash from the comfort of one’s house. All you need to do is to make content that will go viral, reaching millions of people within a short time. An example of such is a viral YouTube video that gained about 400million views in the first 24hours of being shared. Several videos are uploaded daily on YouTube and only a few percentage of it climb more than a million views. But while virality is often a matter of luck, there are some common denominators between top videos on the platform. In this blog post we will be discussing how you can create videos that will go viral on YouTube.
Create Unique and captivating content
Viral videos show things we don’t see every day. This doesn’t mean your video has to slot within a particular type of content. Whether it’s educational, entertaining, or inspiring, you can create unique content in any video niche. Create a kind of video that will catch the attention of your viewers such that they will share the video.
YouTube algorithm doesn’t pay attention to videos, it pays attention to viewers. So, rather than trying to make videos that’ll make an algorithm happy, focus on making videos that make your viewers happy.
Use Optimized thumbnails and titles
This is another aspect some video creators do not know about. The fancy word for this is search engine optimization (SEO). It simply means to find the terms your audience is searching for, then include them in your: Video title, Description (including hashtags) and Video thumbnail.
YouTube receives videos daily from millions of it users worldwide so it will be very important to apply the use of optimized thumbnails and titles on your video content. This will help your video to be easily searched for and easily visible to your viewers. Beautiful thumbnail is very important because it catches the attention of your viewers.
Do trending videos
What goes viral often depends on what’s popular or trending at the time. Every year, month or even week comes with a trend, try as much as you can do join them. Currently there’s a pepper soup trend going on online. If you join such trends not that’s on you will succeed in drawing viewers to your channel.
Post at the right time
Posting at the right time is key to reaching your target audience. You may even join trends and still not get reasonable view if you post at the wrong time. If you post new content when people are active on the platform, you can get your first views early and prove to YouTube’s algorithm that this new, fresh content is something to take note of. Studies show that the best time to post on YouTube is between 2 PM and 4 PM, and from 8 PM to 11 PM on weekdays. Sundays between 6 and 9 AM are the least effective days and times to publish YouTube videos.
Create relatable and sharable videos
People are emotional beings and so you can make use of emotions to entertain and hook your audience, and this will make them want to like, comment and share with their friends and family as well.
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How many views make a video viral
Now that we have discussed How to Create a Viral YouTube Video, determining the exact number of views that make a video “viral” is usually subjective, as it greatly depends on the platform and the audience size. However, typically, a video is considered viral if it reaches a significant number of viewers beyond your subscriber base, meaning it gets a large number of views in a short period of time, and if it has a lot of engagement—likes, comments, and shares.