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A shareability driver is the reason a viewer sends a video to someone, or saves it for later. It is the difference between a video people watch and a video people pass on. This is the craft vocabulary about reach beyond your own followers. Views come from the hook; shares come from here. 8 families, 37 drivers. Browse them at /shareability-drivers, or Craft → Shareability drivers in the sidebar.

The 8 families

Each family is a sentence the sharer is silently saying.

Four drivers to try

Generic save-for-later: tips, hacks, advice, how-tos, anything worth referencing again. The viewer thinks “I want this when I need it”.This one drives saves rather than sends, so judge it on save count, not on shares.
A joke or moment so specific to one type of person that a named friend has to see it. The share is the punchline’s delivery vehicle.Aim at a recognisable type, not at everybody. Precision beats reach here.
A celebratory broadcast of national, regional, or community pride. Loud and outward-facing: “we exist, we are seen”.It is aimed squarely at one audience, which is what makes it travel fast inside that audience.
A protective save: scams, health risks, product hazards, public-service alerts. The share means “do not let this happen to you”.Different from Moral outrage, which condemns rather than protects.
The /shareability-drivers page opens with a panel headed Drives shares, naming what this vocabulary moves: how wide the idea travels, how explosive it is, its emotional size, and its novelty.

Working the page

  • Rest your cursor on any driver to preview its top videos.
  • Open a family to see the drivers inside it, or a driver for its definition and up to 24 real examples.
  • Sort by Highest lift to find the drivers that over-perform, or Heating up for what is spreading now.

Pull every example

From any family or driver page, See all in Explore opens the Explore feed filtered to it.
Explore URL
Or combine it with a topic in one line:
Assistant prompt

Stake types

The reason to watch that a shareable video usually pays off.

Video formats

The form the video takes while it does all this.