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Viral Marketing Examples – 7 Inspiring Facts and 5 Tips

By John Rode on February 29, 2012

This viral presentation receives 2,000 to 5,000 views per day.

We’re always excited to share viral marketing examples, of the presentation kind of course! This presentation is currently going viral based purely on the quality of the presentation and a few well-considered tactics.

So, here are 7 inspiring nuggets about this presentation that may just convince you to also launch a viral presentation campaign:

  1. It’s getting 70,000 unique views every month
  2. The organization doesn’t have a Twitter account
  3. They don’t even have a Facebook page
  4. It’s not even on YouTube
  5. There is $0 promotional budget
  6. It was relatively inexpensive ($3,020) to design
  7. Viewers are watching for over 3 minutes

Hmmm, now why has this presentation gone viral? With no promotional budget, no social media presence and lacking a recognizable brand, you’d most likely bet against viral marketing examples like this. But this non-profit was able to create a presentation that now easily tops its own website in terms of number of visits and time-on-site.

So, what elements enabled this presentation to go viral so quickly? We all huddled and came up with the following analysis of the presentation:

#1 It’s wonderfully engaging

You can’t go viral with bad content. This viral marketing example creates a powerful mood supported by superb visuals and music. Equally important is the storyline which, in this case, captures hearts and minds by pitting a clear villain (terrorists) against a hero that’s easy to get behind (girls who just want to go to school).

#2 It’s easy to share

Great content must be easy to share or not enough people will get to know about it. This presentation can be shared just like a webpage or YouTube. You just share a web link on Twitter, Facebook, email, or wherever. Further, the presentation can be embedded to play on websites, which encourages people to then curate the content on their own blog or website.

#3 It has a fabulous hook

What motivates someone to share your content? It has to be really funny, helpful, encouraging, inspiring, shocking, etc. This presentation ties sharing it to a $5,000 donation the non-profit will receive. People just need to view and share the presentation to do some good in the world. It’s not only easy to be lazy, but now it’s helpful too!

#4 It’s easy to watch

Like a video, this presentation is set to play automatically so there’s no effort required on the viewer’s part. Coupled with keeping the amount of text limited, good visuals and soundtrack, and you have a recipe for a happy viewer.

#5 It has a strategic call to action

Your call to action really makes a difference. This presentation goes beyond a simple “Tweet This” button and instead weaves the call to action into the story and visuals. Right from the beginning, on slides #2 and #4, the viewer is notified that sharing the presentation is important, although no actual button or call to action is presented. The story continues through to slide #23 where again the benefit of viewing and sharing is introduced, before finally letting you take action and click to share or donate on the last slide. Well done.

Do you have viral marketing examples you’d like to share? Whether presentations, videos or apps we’d love to hear what elements you think helped them go viral.

11 Comments »

  1. Joel Lemieux

    March 2, 2012 @ 4:40 pm

    Excellent presentation…
    I predominately utilize infomercial protocols to maximize the exposure of ideas or products – If you have an interest in this particular marketing approach please contact me…

    Joel Lemieux
    828-550-3431
    cumberland@cegsilver.com

    PS: Let’s talk

  2. Basil Trikatz

    March 3, 2012 @ 8:35 am

    Beautiful presentation, excellent cause. One question remains. Why and how is it possible for Sliderocket to donate such amounts to thia organization. What is/was the pre-existing relationship and why did Sliderocket chose this one among so many.

  3. Will Hawkins

    March 4, 2012 @ 10:54 am

    It’s a really engaging presentation and has a good mix of message and media to get its point across.

    I’m going to share it too!

  4. John Rode

    March 5, 2012 @ 2:56 pm

    Hi Basil,

    We’re pretty active in the non-profit space as we feel presentations are a great way for them to get the word out. In fact, here is a non-profit presentation contest that is happening right now which has $30,000 in donation prize money = http://www.sliderocket.com/blog/2012/02/leaderboard-sliderocket-2012-non-profit-presentation-contest/

    This particular presentation was a test of sorts to see just how well a non-profit presentation could do with a little muscle behind it. The results were impressive.

    Sincerely,
    John

  5. Haylee Jennings

    March 19, 2012 @ 8:19 pm

    It takes a lot of time and dedication to make something way cool it goes viral. Its worth it though because it saves advertising bucks and helps bring in the revenue.

  6. John Rode

    March 20, 2012 @ 10:52 am

    Haylee,

    Agreed! Definitely need to be cognizant of the outside costs of designers, etc. and also your “internal” time and effort. But at end of the day you should be able to look across all your viral marketing efforts and see a cost per view that’s just a few pennies.

    - John

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  9. Jonathan

    June 22, 2012 @ 8:18 pm

    Very hard to get an idea to viral marketing campaign. Maybe I need a team to make some good ideas for going to viral. Thanks for sharing useful tips

  10. Dagmar Thomas

    February 1, 2013 @ 11:17 am

    The music and singing are amazing, I would like to purchase this,is it possible?

  11. John Rode

    February 1, 2013 @ 11:41 am

    Hi Dagmar,

    This presentation is not for sale. It was actually created for a non-profit to help them raise money. The link to their website is http://www.hoshyar.org.

    - John

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