Dao Nguyen: What makes something go viral?
Dao Nguyen: ¿Qué hace que algo se vuelva viral?
As Publisher of BuzzFeed, Dao Nguyen thinks about how media spreads online and the technology and data that publishers can use to understand why. Full bio
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employees were scheming
de BuzzFeed tramaron
of baby goats in his office.
de cabritos en su oficina.
to the Facebook Live experiment,
el experimento de Facebook Live
the whole event on the internet
todo el evento en Internet
when Ze would walk in
en que Ze entrara
would last maybe 10 minutes,
tal vez 10 minutos.
would log in for the inside joke.
para ver la broma interna.
started logging in to watch the goats.
sesión para observar las cabras.
more than 30 minutes later,
más de 30 minutos después,
the livestream.
la transmisión en vivo.
of discussion about this video
sobre este video
that we had done to date.
que habíamos hecho hasta la fecha.
involved a fountain of cheese.
incorporaba una fuente de queso.
than we had expected.
de lo que esperábamos.
that we didn't anticipate?
con este video de las cabras?
any number of hypotheses.
tendría varias hipótesis.
le encantan los animales bebé.
las bromas de oficina.
about their bosses
las historias sobre sus jefes
about what the video was about.
en el contenido del video,
y sentían quienes lo veían.
were thinking and feeling.
that were made during the video,
enviados durante el video,
in the shared anticipation
de la expectativa compartida
just for an instant,
solo por un instante,
to test this hypothesis.
probar esta hipótesis.
this very same thing?
para probar esto mismo?
that food videos are very popular,
son muy populares,
con trajes de materiales peligrosos
around a watermelon until it exploded.
de goma hasta hacerla reventar.
explode the watermelon,
Facebook Live event to date.
de Facebook Live hasta la fecha.
con más frecuencia es:
doing the something,
que leen o miran ese "algo".
when they think about metadata,
de medios piensan en metadatos,
o un cuestionario,
is mildly interesting,
medianamente interesante,
what really matters.
lo que realmente importa.
what articles or videos are about,
de qué van los artículos o videos,
do a real job in their lives?
a hacer una tarea en la vida real?"
our content in this way.
nuestro contenido de esa manera.
that we've had for a really long time:
hemos tenido mucho tiempo:
primarily about,
for the reader or the viewer.
en el lector o el espectador.
that we have today.
el esquema que tenemos hoy.
in a specific color are related jobs.
son situaciones relacionadas.
to make somebody laugh.
de hacer reír a alguien.
humor específico de Internet,
at specific internet humor,
clean, inoffensive dad jokes.
chiste, ingenuo e inofensivo.
to explain, "This is who I am.
para explicar: "Esto es lo que soy.
this is my guilty pleasure,
este es mi placer oculto,
gifts of the internet.
los mejores regalos de Internet.
a piece of media
your bond with someone.
tu vínculo con alguien.
que me ayuda a hacer algo:
that helps me do something --
about myself or another person,
sobre mí o sobre otra persona,
that makes me feel something --
que me hace sentir algo,
or restores my faith in humanity.
o me devuelve la fe en la humanidad.
and creators do put themselves
y creativos se ponen
we can go much farther.
podemos ir mucho más allá.
on Facebook, on Twitter,
entre sí en Facebook, en Twitter,
to have a conversation
para tener una conversación
a deeper connection between two people,
entre dos personas,
a real job for these people.
a estas personas.
de cómo funciona esto.
of how this plays out.
Send Your Sister Immediately" --
a tu hermana inmediatamente".
en las cosas de tu hermana,
through your sister's stuff,
for something that you did
en problemas por algo que hiciste
and thousands of comments
y miles de comentarios
using this list.
usando esta lista.
what jobs do after the fact.
surgen después del hecho.
Your Exact Age and Height,"
adivinaremos tu edad y altura exactas"
the exact age and height
la edad y la altura exactas
went extremely viral
fue extremadamente viral
de 55 años y más,
that they were 28 and 5'9".
28 años y 1,80 m de altura.
and seven inches taller.
y 18 cm más alta.
a damn what anyone says.
no me importa lo que digan.
not because it was accurate,
no porque fuera precisa,
to do a very important job --
expresar una emoción importante
this framework to recipes and food.
a recetas y alimentos.
what to make for dinner or for lunch.
qué preparar para la cena o el almuerzo.
brainstorm for a recipe:
ordenamos las ideas para una receta:
you want to use,
at the end to sell it.
para venderlo al final.
and thought about the job first?
pensáramos primero en la tarea?
involved the job of bonding.
incluyó la tarea de vincularse.
that brought people together?
que reuniera a las personas?
process at a food publisher.
de ideas en un editor de alimentos.
like to bake together,
les gusta cocinar juntas
like to do challenges together,
that involved those two things,
que involucrara esas dos cosas,
if we can do this together"?
hacer esto juntos".
Ever" [los brownies más exquisitos].
the "Fudgiest Brownies Ever" video.
in every metric possible --
desde todos los parámetros posibles:
that we were going after:
lo que estábamos buscando:
are you up for a challenge?"
¿estás lista para un desafío?"
over baking and chocolate.
del horneado y el chocolate.
the potential for this project.
con el potencial de este proyecto.
con nuestros creadores de contenido,
with our content creators,
what country they’re in,
en qué país están,
massively scale our workforce training.
nuestra capacitación laboral.
and this framework
de este proyecto y este esquema
more often than media companies,
que las compañías de medios,
to understand the job
entender el efecto
are doing for customers.
about this project
de este proyecto
between media and data.
entre los medios y los datos.
think of media as "mine."
piensan en los medios como "míos".
in my data warehouse?
en mi almacén de datos?
which is that it's yours.
de los datos; es decir, que es tuyo.
what really matters to you,
lo que realmente te importa,
the role that our work plays
que juega nuestro trabajo
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dao Nguyen - Media analytics expertAs Publisher of BuzzFeed, Dao Nguyen thinks about how media spreads online and the technology and data that publishers can use to understand why.
Why you should listen
Dao Nguyen is the Publisher of BuzzFeed, a reinvention of the traditional title in which she oversees the company’s tech, product, data and publishing platform, as well as ad product, pricing, and distribution. Nguyen joined BuzzFeed in 2012 and has been instrumental in its rapid growth as the largest independent digital media company in the world. Prior to joining BuzzFeed, Nguyen oversaw product for a financial careers venture within Dow Jones. She also previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Le Monde Interactif, publisher of the leading news site lemonde.fr. Before moving to France, she was Executive Producer at Concrete Media, a small web agency, and a consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). She has a degree in Applied Mathematics / Computer Science from Harvard and is based in New York City.
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