Digital Marketing And Social Media PR – The Future Buzz

We’ve been documenting images that get passed on throughout the social web since 2008. More than 1 million of you have viewed the series, making it the most popular of our ongoing threads at The Future Buzz.

Joe Chernov at Eloqua has really been pushing the envelope with content marketing. As one example, their teams have been producing stunning visualizations (previously we shared their Intersection of Influence infographic).

Images continue to be the web’s most underrated content format. And if anything, in 2011 we’ve seen the pace of image sharing continue to increase. I’m a fan of images in particular because of how simple they are both to pass on and manipulate: basically encouraging an ongoing story through a culture of remix.

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I’ve documented images that get passed on socially here since 2008 (and have been sharing them personally around the web for over a decade). Images predate video yet continue to proliferate quicker due to their inherent instant nature.

Despite the fact that we live in a text-driven web and video continues to heat up, (more than 80% of US internet audiences view online video,  and YouTube’s fact sheet states 2 billion videos are being watched per day) images remain one of the core archetypes of viral content.