Talk:Viral video

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1 Proposed merger of viral video with viral marketing
2 Website list
3 Marketing vs Non-marketing uses
4 Product Placement??
5 First Viral Video?

[edit] Proposed merger of viral video with viral marketing

These are in fact different things. For example, users of FORscene can Bluetooth their own videos virally between mobile handsets, with no marketing in site. Stephen B Streater 06:33, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Oppose. Viral videos are becoming more not lessn notable. TV Genius 23:52, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Website list

Since the list of websites has been taken off, should an article be created that lists the viral video websites that have an article on Wikipedia? 71.31.147.210 01:05, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

This sounds like a good idea, if there are sufficiently notable viral videos to have articles. Can you give more than one viral video with an article? Stephen B Streater 06:08, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Mostly the ones that were a part of the external links. Stupid Videos, EBaum's World, Google Video, YouTube, Metacafe, Revver, Ifilm. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.31.154.84 (talk • contribs) 02.56, 26 June 2006.

I suggest we add internal links rather than external links in a see also section. Stephen B Streater 06:22, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Marketing vs Non-marketing uses

I've added a "Marketing uses" section and merged the "Non-marketing uses" section into the main text. Most of the text in the article was about the non-commercial kind (or use-neutral), with only a couple of sentences mentioning marketing in passing (and one of those was *in* the "Non-marketing uses" section). Hopefully it makes more sense now; otherwise, there should probably be both sections (though perhaps use "amateur" instead of "non-marketing uses"). --Sabik 04:34, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Some figures the BBC have just reported regarding the most popular viral videos.--Ear1grey 23:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Product Placement??

The explicit mention of only FORscene for a video editing somewhere seems rather strange. I don't do much video editing, but it would appear to me that people doing amateur editing would the program that came with their web-cam, or Windows Movie Maker since it's on pretty much every PC out there. Consider mentioning other entry-level video editing software, or remove the mention of FORscene. I've put a advert tag for now since I don't really know which is the better option. Headbomb 05:07, 21 November 2006 (UTC)