Posted by I did a TEDx Talk a few weeks ago in Moldova, I got so much help, it was really fun and I met some great people!
The video went live yesterday morning and I was really happy that a bunch of people gave me nice feedback as I wasn’t sure how well received it would be
At the time of writing this it currently has 422 views on YouTube, not very successful compared to other TEDsters many of whom who have Millions!! Even my last TEDx – The Power of Connection received over 3,000 views.
Whilst in the ‘Absolute’ it is not successful the ‘Model’ for how it is getting the views is amazing to me!
Whilst I got more views in the past, only people who knew me posted comments and shared the video so it grew and then plateaued within a week.
The Value was not intrinsic in the content it was with me so only if people knew me personally they posted it
But it is these posts from the new talk that excite me……
I have never spoken to these people yet for one reason or another they have found my talk and seen enough value in what was said to share it again into their worlds.
I am FULLY aware it could be a fluke, one was actually a friend, Jordan’s mum and lots of other forces are at play!
….But if it is true that someone not linked to me will share the video to someone else and so on then the message may create a life of its own.
This Idea that the thoughts I shared might have enough resonance and intrinsic value that people who don’t know me may enjoy and share is far more exciting to me than the idea that I may get some 000,000s on the view count through clever promotion
Some call this the virality of a piece of content or product and many tech businesses measure something called the Viral Co-Efficient which looks at when one person gets added how many more get added through them as a result.
It is very likely that the video will not be a huge success but the glimmer of hope that the ideas I am articulating may have value that exists outside of my personal relationships is so extremely exciting to me 🙂