This is exactly how our TED talks work. It has very little to do with the quality of them. I graphed my views over time, and it was a delta function once TED put it on the front page. The longer it stayed up there, the more views it gets, by ~500k per day, plus a long dying off period. All of the TED fellows talks that were posted had the *exact* same trajectory based on when theirs was put on the front page (usually for 24 hours) vs when the link was active. Also another friend that year had her regular TED talk featured for 3 days, and hers correspondingly had another 500k+ views. It's **entirely** driven by what the site chooses to promote. Sure, there is a link to quality, but it's most strongly determined by the marketing from these sites themselves. Same with amazon links etc. You have to get lucky or have it promoted by the marketplace.
I think this is really interesting in the context of Mastodon and Threads. I’m on both. I think the kind of promotion discussed is only possible on Threads. I like both platforms but use them very differently.
This is exactly how our TED talks work. It has very little to do with the quality of them. I graphed my views over time, and it was a delta function once TED put it on the front page. The longer it stayed up there, the more views it gets, by ~500k per day, plus a long dying off period. All of the TED fellows talks that were posted had the *exact* same trajectory based on when theirs was put on the front page (usually for 24 hours) vs when the link was active. Also another friend that year had her regular TED talk featured for 3 days, and hers correspondingly had another 500k+ views. It's **entirely** driven by what the site chooses to promote. Sure, there is a link to quality, but it's most strongly determined by the marketing from these sites themselves. Same with amazon links etc. You have to get lucky or have it promoted by the marketplace.
I think this is really interesting in the context of Mastodon and Threads. I’m on both. I think the kind of promotion discussed is only possible on Threads. I like both platforms but use them very differently.