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22% -- share of 5m view videos negative sentiment for viral videos (2025)

2025  · Brandwatch

22% of videos that cross the 5-million-view threshold have a negative sentiment ratio above 40%.

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22%
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2025
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viral videos
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https://greenfroglabs.com/blog/viral-video-definition-metrics-thresholds ↗
Confidence: 53/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Deep Crawl
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Everyone throws around the word "viral." A client sends a TikTok with 50,000 views and calls it viral. A creator hits 500,000 on YouTube and says the same thing. A brand gets 2 million views on a Reel and the marketing team celebrates going viral. They might all be right. Or none of them. Because "v…
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Brandwatch 2025 Social Listening Report

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viral videos: 22% share of 5m view videos negative sentiment. Source: Brandwatch (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/negative-sentiment-5m-videos-2025
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/negative-sentiment-5m-videos-2025" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>22%</strong> -- share of 5m view videos negative sentiment for viral videos<br><small>Source: Brandwatch (2025) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/negative-sentiment-5m-videos-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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