You’ve heard of content farms, or websites, like ehow.com, which churn out articles and videos quickly and cheaply, based on analysis of the most-popular search queries. That was so 2012.
Today, the web is being swarmed by what we might call “virality mills.” As PandoDaily’s Hamish McKenzie puts it, these websites “are wising up to the mechanics of ‘success through social.’”
Here’s a quick list of the best viral farms:
1. BuzzFeed
2. Upworthy
3. Independent Journal Review
4. Viral Conservative
5. Distractify
6. Twisted Sifter
7. Know More
8. FaithIt
9. ViralNova
10. Cracked
11. Ampp3d
12. I Can Has Cheezburger?
13. Know Your Meme
14. Bizopy
15. Laughing Squid
16. PolicyMic
17. Us vs. Them
18. For the Win
19. Mental Floss
For more, see this post by Business Insider’s Alyson Shontell, “Suddenly, Upworthy Clones Are Everywhere and Millions of People Are Reading Them.”
