clickbaity

comparative clickbaitier · superlative clickbaitiest · alternative click-baity · alternative clickbait-y

1. derogatoryinformalOf, related to, or characteristic of clickbait.

   That video title looks clickbaity.

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   […] all I can wonder is, "How would the 'Like A Prayer' video have been received in the age of Twitter and SEO-happy music blogs trying to capitalize on the clickbaity ways of its plotline and the artist behind it?"

   2011 May 5, Maura Johnston, “Lady Gaga's 'Judas' Video: The Last Temptation Of Something-Or-Other”, in Village Voice

   "Clickbaity headlines are taking over the Web. Today, publishers make more money from quantity than quality. They're incentivized to manipulate lots of people into clicking on a headline instead of getting engaged readers," CentUp stated.

   2014 January 8, David Griner, “Can You Spot the BS Headlines in This Clickbait Quiz? CentUp mocks the idiocy of today's hottest content”, in Adweek

   To put it another way: at the moment, Facebook assumes that people click on exactly the material that they want to click on, and that if it serves up a lot of clickbaity curiosity-gap headlines, then it’s giving its users what they want.

   2014 February 3, Felix Salmon, “Viral math”, in Columbia Journalism Review

   Yes it has a clickbaity title, and yes, this show will grind the gears of thousands – but it should.

   2017 July 17, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, “Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare”, in The Guardian, →ISSN