Vimode bloghttps://vimode.app/blog/Viral video formats, hooks and animated videos.en10 viral video formats with millions of views (and how each one works)https://vimode.app/blog/viral-video-formats/https://vimode.app/blog/viral-video-formats/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:00:00 GMTTen short-video formats that pulled 1 to 31 million views on Instagram, broken down beat by beat: what they look like, why they hold attention and what to use them for.The outlier method: how to find videos that beat their own accounthttps://vimode.app/blog/find-viral-formats-outlier-method/https://vimode.app/blog/find-viral-formats-outlier-method/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:00:00 GMTRaw view counts lie: big accounts get views on everything. The outlier method keeps only the reels that did at least 3× their own account’s average. Here is how to run it, with a real scan of 27 accounts.How to make animated videos with Claude (and why most of them don’t go viral)https://vimode.app/blog/animated-videos-with-claude/https://vimode.app/blog/animated-videos-with-claude/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:00:00 GMTClaude can write the code for an animated video, but the code is the easy part. A practical workflow from idea to 1080×1920 MP4, and the reasons most of these videos never take off.Hooks that stop the scroll: 6 openings from reels with millions of viewshttps://vimode.app/blog/video-hooks-first-3-seconds/https://vimode.app/blog/video-hooks-first-3-seconds/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe first seconds decide whether anyone sees the rest. Six opening patterns taken from real reels that pulled 1 to 31 million views, with what each one does and how to reuse it.