Quotes About Viral

'Battlefield' was one of those slow-building songs, the way 'Tattoo' was. It was kind of a word-of-mouth hit. The more people heard it, the more they started requesting it on the radio.

Viral word-of-mouth marketing for GoPro is massive. Video is really the conduit.

4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.

People say the Internet's made of cats. The reason isn't because of cats; it's because people like to have an emotion where they say 'aww' all at the same time.

I recorded my first song, 'Greetings,' and it got so much attention on SoundCloud. I was not expecting that.

I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years.

But after the TED talk went viral, I called Sara Hirsh Bordo, who had produced TEDxAustinWomen, to ask her advice. She told me she'd like to do a documentary, and that we should work together on anti-bullying efforts.

I wanted to do a sports movie and discussed the same with my friend Jagdeep Sidhu, who is the writer of 'Harjeeta.' In the same year, the picture of Harjeet sleeping with the world cup went viral and caught Jagdeep's attention.

Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.

If you are going truly viral, you don't need press. I mean, MySpace grew for a very long time without any press.

A lie gets half way around the world before the truth can get it's pants on.

Like the other engines of growth, the viral engine is powered by a feedback loop that can be quantified. It is called the viral loop, and its speed is determined by a single mathematical term called the viral coefficient. The higher this coefficient is, the faster the product will spread. The viral coefficient measures how many new customers will use a product as a consequence of each new customer who signs

a viral loop with a coefficient that is greater than 1.0 will grow exponentially, because each person who signs up will bring, on average, more than one other person with him or her.

Companies that rely on the viral engine of growth must focus on increasing the viral coefficient more than anything else, because even tiny changes in this number will cause dramatic changes in their future prospects.

The viral coefficient measures how many new customers will use a product as a consequence of each new customer who signs up. Put

Consider the social proof of a line of people standing behind a velvet rope, waiting to get into a club. The line makes most people walking by want to find out what's worth the wait. The digital equivalent of the velvet rope helped build viral growth for initially invite-only launches like Gmail, Gilt Groupe, Spotify, and Turntable.fm.

You can pick songs that sound like hits, but if it's not something that somebody wants to tell their friends, 'Hey man, have you heard this song?' then I don't think it's worth it. The only way to get your music out there, is for someone to tell their friends about it.

A strong and enthusiastic niche audience can push a topic into mainstream consciousness with speed and force.

Any time you try to create an Internet meme, automatic fail. That's like the worst thing you can do.

growth hacking creates a product that will market itself.

The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.

If somebody writes a review of a dry cleaner, that piece of content is not wildly viral. It's not like a viral video that can spread across the world in a matter of minutes, so as a result, each market is almost an island unto itself.

Holy shit! Where's a cell phone camera when you need one?

Julian and his team of copy-writers had noted that the phrase 'Lest we forget' had so far been reserved for fallen soldiers. In minutes they had created a viral post accusing 'crazed trans multi-cultural zealots' of claiming that a dead transsexual was as much an English hero as the fighter pilots who had died during the Battle of Britain. Malika's algorithms then swiftly sent the message to the people most likely to be annoyed by it.