1. Create A Buzzfeed Quiz

How to Create Viral Content: 10 Insights from 100 Million ArticlesLast updated on November 27, 2017A while back, someone sent me a link to the BuzzSumo website. With a name that includes “Sumo,” I knew it was love at first sight.And the love has lasted. Years later, I still use BuzzSumo regularly. It’s a gold mine of data for analyzing content’s popularity, social growth, and more.#chaching.Because I’m so impressed with the platform, I reached out to awesome people at BuzzSumo to let us go behind-the-scenes for the main ingredients to insanely shareable content are.You’ve probably seen lame articles on the web like “10 ways to go viral” with super basic tips for creating shareable content. But his post crushes those posts, because it’s backed by pure data. (Who doesn’t love some fancy images and charts?)Use this knowledge with caution. And without keeping you waiting anymore, take it away Sumo brothers-NoahHere at, we've analyzed the social share counts of over 100 million articles in the past 8 months.

So it’s fair to say we have a pretty good idea of what gets shared the most.There has always been some nagging questions we’ve wanted to answer. So we came up with this set of questions, hoping to challenge popular assumptions on how to make your content go viral:. What types of emotions did the most popular articles invoke?. What formats of posts typically receive a lot of shares? Infographics?).

Create A Buzzfeed Quiz

Did readers love to share short form or long form content?