Uploaded March 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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(Rated ★★★★★) - 21QuestionsAboutYouTube.com Everybody dreams of making their videos viral. A couple of simple facts you should know. Number one, thinking your video is going to be viral is an absolutely terrible strategy. You've heard the number of hours of content uploaded to YouTube every minute. How many of them are viral? Such a minimal amount.

The chances for you to make your video viral is infinitesimally small; it is a terrible strategy.

Now if for some reason, at some point your video becomes viral, if a zillion people downloaded it, great, leverage it, take hold of it. But the chances of that are up there with you winning the lottery. It is very hard to plan a viral video, it's just something that you just have to know how to do.

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