As influence grows, so does word-of-mouth. Traditional PR techniques - surveys, polls, interviews - work spectacularly well in the blogosphere. They can all provide compellingly viral ways of spreading messages.
YouTube is tailor-made for virals. Typically a successful viral will include off-the-wall content, and can be created from lots of small snippets of user-generated content 'stitched' together.
"Today we launched our new project, Journey to Atlantis, for SeaWorld San Antonio.
Viral Components
The campaign includes Flickr, YouTube and Veoh sites that are all tied back to the main website. These platforms allow bloggers and coaster fans to easily post SeaWorld assets to their site and everyone can participate in commenting on the various social media platforms. Moreover, we have both a YouTube and Flickr group where people can share their own stuff.
Michael Schuster of Knallgrau New Media Solutions (Vienna, Austria) presented a case study today called Antarctica 2005. His agency worked with an Austrian bank to sponsor one Dr. Melchior, who was traveling to the South Pole to break a world record for the fastest unsupported trek on the Admunson route (which he did). They decided to do a combination blog/podcast
FG uses all news searches that generate RSS feeds extensively. This provides the aggregated feeds to the right of the FG blog, and is used as part of a team news syndication service, aggregating feeds direct from blogs together with news search results.