The Man Behind ViralNova on the Viral Bubble

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'This Haunts Me at Night': The Man Behind ViralNova on the Viral Bubble

The only thing I want to comment on is how butthurt "traditional journalists" are regarding the amount of traffic these sites generate.

DeLong points out that news outlets really shouldn't be feeling so insecure given the fact that people are not going to Buzzfeed and Viralnova to get there hard-hitting, world news fix.

My take on their (journalists) reactions is that they're having to face the fact that their writing degrees and their left-leaning spin doesn't amount to shit when we actually look at the traffic numbers.

In any case, a decent article. I'm definitely going to be paying extra close attention to how ViralNova integrates their viral sharing features and if they make any changes, I should test out doing the same.
 


lol @ no one wanting to "learn" or "use their brain" anymore...

All spoon fed, fast food type entertainment.

Just what the world needs...

Journalists should be mad; writing with sincerity, proof-reading, research, etc. All of that work just wasted.

The chance to help someone is just thrown out the window when people stop caring.

Slowly turning into the Idiocracy movie.
 
Paper_Chase said:
They shouldn't worry so much, the demographic for each site is completely different.

Who is more valuable, a DailyMail reader or a ViralNova reader?

Nigga pls.
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To society? A ViralNova reader.

The Daily Mail pretty much represents everything I hate about the media and politics. Newspapers like them get between science and policy, driving emotional rather than rational, scientific political decisions.
 
mituozo said:
The Daily Mail pretty much represents everything I hate about the media and politics. Newspapers like them get between science and policy, driving emotional rather than rational, scientific political decisions.
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Then there's this:

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mituozo said:
To society? A ViralNova reader.

The Daily Mail pretty much represents everything I hate about the media and politics. Newspapers like them get between science and policy, driving emotional rather than rational, scientific political decisions.
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Who cares what society wants. I'm talking about which reader is more valuable to an advertiser. You know, the big brands who spend billions per year trying to market to us...
 
contract said:
The chance to help someone is just thrown out the window when people stop caring.
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The media self-perpetuates a myth that they exist to help people. I guess that's taught at journalism school, part of the curriculum or something.
 
infoslob said:
The media self-perpetuates a myth that they exist to help people. I guess that's taught at journalism school, part of the curriculum or something.
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It's like scientology. You get balls deep, a few maxed credit cards deep, 10,000 auditing hours deep, and then they bust out the Xenu thing. 99% of people are too committed at this point to turn back and will keep lying to themselves about what they got into.

In this case, a propaganda machine controlled by a super elite cabal of illuminatist bowses with 6.66 inch cocks.
 
Funny that people defend meaningless pages like VN, et al.

These clickbait, "steal other people's images," provide-no-content-of-their-own pages are one step up from Indian spammers.

Yeah it works and in some sense all of us who manage profitable FB pages do it to some degree (but most of us to a much lesser degree). But in the end let's call a spade a spade. Just because we're marketers doesn't mean we have to turn off our brains and worship anyone who figures out a way to make a buck online.

In a few years, or maybe months, we'll look back at pages like these and roll our eyes as the world will likely have moved on and left them in the dust.

That said though, journalists have been using clickbait, sensationalism for decades. And often their own writing is like one or two facts among 500 words. There are few things worse than the writing quality of many journalists.
 
contract said:
Journalists should be mad; writing with sincerity, proof-reading, research, etc. All of that work just wasted.
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It's getting pretty hard to find a journalist these days. Most of them are propagandists, and I have no sympathy for them.
 
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