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User-Generated Content: How to Use It for Good and Avoid a PR Crisis

Contently

It’s high time businesses tap into the power of user-generated content (UGC), a form of content marketing where your customers take center stage. The song quickly went viral and received over 17 million views in the first year. “Word of mouth” marketing is key for creating community and virality.

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How to create a social media viral video

Sprout Social

If you’re a social media marketer, chances are you’ve been asked, “but how do we go viral?” Most marketers undoubtedly want the audience growth and attention that comes from achieving a social media viral video. But they also know that there’s no one formula to attracting viral success. What makes a social media viral video?

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Leveraging TikTok Viral Moments

Atomic Reach

TikTok viral moments indirectly showcase what your customers resonate with the most and why. The right meme at the right time can catapult your brand to viral fame. High engaging TikTok moments don’t directly teach you the art of virality. It’s this combination that actually holds the potential to create evergreen viral content.

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A Straightforward Approach to User Generated Content that Connects

Buffer

In 2021, TikTok user Trinidad Sandoval made a video showing the effects of an eye cream by skincare brand Peter Thomas Roth that went viral on TikTok and Twitter. The virality of a simple video showing Trinidad’s morning routine caused the product to sell out.

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Is It Plagiarism or Jumping on a Trend? The Ethics of Social Media Content

Contently

The difference between borrowing and stealing can be blurry on social media, where memes, sounds, and other types of content are widely redistributed by brands and users alike. For instance, one daytime talk show in Texas reached more than 58 million users when they asked their social followers to name the one food they would never, ever eat.

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The Viral Coefficient: Your 2020 Guide to Viral Marketing

Martech Advisor

Going viral can give your brand and product immense publicity, generate brand awareness, and acquire new customers. But how does viral marketing work? What is the Viral Coefficient and the Viral Cycle Time? Before we begin, let's first understand what viral marketing is. The Viral Coefficient.

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What’s Trending in Marketing For November 2023

Stevens & Tate

Welcome to our November 2023 edition of “What’s Trending,” where we bring you the most relevant marketing trends and insights. Stay informed and ahead of the game with our curated collection of marketing trends and reports in winter 2023. The Brand Loyalty Of Generation X Consumers like certain brands.

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