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The Science Behind Crafting Contagious ContentJonah Berger, a marketing professor a the Wharton School of Business, has identified six key drivers of virality.

ByJason Ankeny

This story appears in theMay 2014issue of狗万官方.Subscribe »

Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis may never learn what the fox says, but its video posing that musical question solved a far greater mystery: the secret behind viral media success.

"The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)," released in September 2013, received some 40 million online views in its first two weeks and scored an astounding 276 million by December, becoming YouTube's top trending video of the year.

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