What Is a Viral Video?

Video Transcript

"CRAIG SCIME: Hi, it's Craig Scime from clearstarmedia.com, and we are taking a look at YouTube, how to get on it and how to navigate through it right here on Expert Village. So in the last segment, we talked about making your video viral, and that means everybody on YouTube or around the country start watching it right away, instantly. You are an overnight sensation and of course crazy things happen. For example, this guy, Chris Crocker was depending Britney, he now is getting a development deal or something crazy because he cried about Britney's performance and about beating people beating up Britney over her performance on the VMA sometime back. Well, it has created a lot of hysteria and went viral. So take a look at - and here is another segment. Seth Green decided to make fun of him and again, the great thing about YouTube is you can go ahead and make fun of it. Now, of course says "Leave Chris Crocker alone" and you've got the player in here which of course I didn't really talk about too much. The volume control, you can make things go full screen right here, your play button and this is your rewind to the beginning button. Of course, you can move this anywhere you want along here. In this area here, this tells us when they put it up. This tells us who put it up and of course a little message, and then of course, what is the category. Well, we can see this is comedy and tags, Chris Rocker, of course I think it's Chris Crocker leave Britney alone, more tags. This will help people find it and then if you want to copy that and put it in your e-mail, so people can go right to the site. Now, other things that are on this - underneath the actual video is of course you could see the views, comments and favorite. And under the favorite, all you need to do is just click on one of the stars here and it becomes - I'm sorry it becomes - that's your rating. Favorite is when you decide to make it a favorite just like you would a website. You're making a bookmarker favorite for your YouTube videos on your site. The ratings here rather are what you would click on to rate this video and as you could see it's rated at 4 stars. And of course comments, people can post comments like this, "Ha ha brilliant" and so you can read it. Now, if you come across a video that you don't think is appropriate, you can certainly click this is inappropriate and YouTube will go ahead and look at it and realize that okay this is something that shouldn't be on the site. Finally, in these boxes here, related. These are other links that are along the same lines of what we are looking at. We're looking at this Chris Crocker. Here is other people's spoofing it. Here of course is the Chris Crocker video, more Seth Green, more people making fun of him and we can click more from this user, and that's the great thing. If you got somebody who is putting out great videos, you click more from this user and you can see all the other videos they put up. And of course, we'll be showing you how to put up a video in our next segment. So, stay here."