...How Did Gangnam Style Go Viral? The Gangnam Viral Marketing Style Playbook 518 209 Digg6 Reddit34 StumbleUpon2 Click here to download a Word Document version of this report Andy here, having a look at the story behind Gangnam Style and trying to understand not only how it went viral, but identifying the key strategies behind making content spread virally via the web. I think we are the first to put our head above the parapet and come out with a comprehensive review of the Gangnam Style viral timeline, and make a number of assumptions on how this became such a big phenomenon. Being the first to do something is always cool, but it also carries the risk that you get things spectacularly wrong, so, with that in mind, apologies if there are a few inaccuracies and please point them out to be rectified or corrected. I am going to be really honest; I started looking at the story behind the video because I truly felt something was being gamed behind the scenes for it to be getting such mainstream pick up, over such a short period of time. I no longer think this was the case. I believe it was simply a well thought out, well planned and well executed campaign, driven by the record label behind Psy (the star of Gangnam Style), YG Entertainment. Before we look at the actual timeline of events that drove the campaign to such high views we need to look a bit more at the backstory and the planning of the campaign. In February 2012 YG Entertainment, through various media...
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...results from its review into how the music video Gangnam Style became so popular online, finding that the campaign was an organic natural hit with little if any “gaming” (false manipulation) of traffic volumes and online mentions. Overall the report found that, rather than being celebrity tweets which drove the popularity, it was a well structured and meticulously executed campaign by the South Korean label company behind the song; YG Entertainment. The report was broken down into three stages; firstly the set-up by YG Entertainment, secondly the song and the video content and finally the media push. Stage 1: The Set-Up Driven by the record label behind Psy (the star of Gangnam Style), YG Entertainment, the video formed part of a wider business goal to push into the US and UK music industry. The report found that YG Entertainment had spent a significant amount of time, before the song came along, setting up an office in America and exploring partnerships with artists such as Will.i.Am. A deal announced with record label Scooter Braun was also brokered in advance, and planned to be announced at the right, strategic, time, so as to give the campaign a further boost. The company also invested in organically growing an engaged audience, so that when the right song came along, they had a large platform on which to seed the campaign to ensure maximum exposure and a surefire online hit. In addition YG's seeding platform, pre-Gangnam, it had around 2.5 million subscribers to its...
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...GLOBAL MARKETING 이름: 쪼우즐빈 학번: 201218515 Psy phenomena and international success The song Gangnam Style by Psy is considered by some to be a worldwide phenomenon that has influenced global popular culture, and it also topped national music charts in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. According to the news agency Agence France-Presse, the "phenomenal" success of "Gangnam Style" has played a significant role in spreading the Korean Wave to other countries. As the song continued to attract worldwide media attention, it also led to various broadcasting networks and national newspapers focusing its attention on Korean popular music (K-pop) and other aspects of Korean culture. For example, The Daily Telegraph published an article recommending its readers to try out everything from K-Pop to "K-Cars", "K-Phones" and "K-Cuisine". After the release of "Gangnam Style", the American talent manager Scooter Braun, who discovered Justin Bieber on YouTube, asked on Twitter "How did I not sign this guy (Psy)"Soon afterwards, it was reported that PSY had left for Los Angeles to meet with representatives of Justin Bieber, to explore collaboration opportunities. On September 3, Braun made a public announcement that was later uploaded onto YouTube, saying that he and PSY have decided to "make some history together. [To] be the first Korean artist to break a big record in the United States." On September 4, it was confirmed that...
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...Social Media Boom and Marketing heights Businesses are looking more critically at social media and its influence on the bottom line. The buzz of social media is a new big thing to talk about. Social media becomes a powerful backbone of marketing. Whether it is a rise of a brand or a fall, social media plays a vital role. Marketing gimmicks have become an attraction on Infobahn, like Garnier products giving a dreadful skin disease or a Frooti employee mixing drops of HIV infected blood; all hampers your brand image. Also dumping a simple ice bucket on your heads can increase your brand equity. Is ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, silly social media fad, a waste of water or just another example of “slacktivism” that allows people to feel good about themselves without really doing much? I was really keen to know about it and also what was so great about the ALS Ice bucket challenge which has even made celebs crazy for it? And this is what I got to know about ALS Ice Bucket Challenge– in which millions of people shared videos of themselves getting doused with ice water and then demanding that others do the same or donate to fight the disease or both. From July 29 to Aug. 20, the ALS Association was able to raise more than $31 million to fund research to find a cure for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a fatal disease that attacks the nervous system. Doesn’t it freak you out? When members of Team FrateTrain issued the Ice Bucket Challenge to their base, they did not set out to make...
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...EvoThe evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again. Simon Mainwaring (2011). For several decades music could only be heard by either buying a single or an album from the local record shop, listening to the radio or going to watch a live gig. There was a time that it would be a special occasion to take your Vinyl or CD home and play it through a sound system. Those days seem so very long ago now. In more recent years, through the evolution and growth of iTunes, YouTube and technology in general, there are many new ways of listening to music. Thanks to modern technology, we now listen to music on a verity of different platforms such as our computers/laptops, phones, iPods and even home gaming devices. We can now listen to music 'on-the-go' and that means we aren't confined into listening to music in certain circumstances - i.e., sitting in front of a CD player. We listen to music how, where and whenever we want to. Over the past decade, this has become normality and is how the majority of the world listens to music, proving extremely popular to millions of people. In 1999, ‘ Sean Parker’ and ‘Shawn Fanning’, two 18-year-old college students, changed the music industry forever with their file-sharing...
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...status that can be utilized by companies who are making commitment for the development of pharmaceutical industry. 2. Targets and Contents of Directory Book 1) Targets for directory book •Korean Pharmaceutical companies: 81 companies. 2) Contents of directory book •Investigation items 3. Method and Way for Utilization 1) Method □ Ways to select investigation targets and to promote them were developed through consultation from consultation committees and domestic pharmaceutical companies (including unlisted ones) ◦Investigated based on basic data involving scale of sales, number of employees and scale of production, export and import ◦Information was also investigated that companies which got into the business late can bench mark in marketing part such as strategies of brand making, new product development and distribution □ Information on current status of R&D collected through email, phone consultation and...
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