What is Viral Video

According to Wikipedia, viral video is video clip content which gains widespread popularity through the process of the Internet shared typically through email or IM messages, blogs and other media sharing websites. Viral videos are often humorous. There are millions of short video clips on the web, produced by amateurs and professionals. The amateurs publish videos for fun and professional publish their clips to drive traffic to their websites and to sell more of their products or services. With the introduction of the latest camera phones technology, this means that many videos shot these days are done by consumers on these devices. Cheap video editing and publishing tools allow video shot on mobile phones to be edited and distributed virally both on the web, by email and between phones by Bluetooth.