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Viral Trends

Surface viral content within your niches, curate the best, and turn trending topics into your own posts before the moment passes.

Generic "trending today" lists are useless — they're broad, noisy, and you can't act on them. Viral Trends fixes this by scoping discovery to your niches and giving you a one-click path from "this is taking off" to "I have a scheduled post about it."

You configure the niches you care about. Aidelly watches the platforms for content that's actually breaking out in those niches (not just popular, but accelerating). When something promising shows up, you save it, curate it, and turn it into your own angle.

This guide walks you through:

  1. Setting up your niches
  2. Reading the discovered trends feed
  3. Curating a trend into your queue
  4. Tracking the influencers behind the trends

Before you start

  • Know which niches/topics you create for (3–8 is ideal — too many and the feed gets noisy).
  • (Recommended) Have your Brand Profile filled out so the "Use this trend" drafts come back on-brand.

Step 1 — Open Viral Trends

  1. In the left sidebar, click 📈 Viral Trends.
  2. The page opens to the trends feed. On first run it's empty until you set up niches.

Step 2 — Set up your niches

  1. Click Settings in the top-right.
  2. Add 3–8 niche keywords or topics that describe what you create about.
    • Good: "indie SaaS pricing", "remote team productivity", "no-code automation"
    • Bad: "tech", "business", "marketing" (too broad)
  3. Pick which platforms to watch: X, YouTube, TikTok, Pinterest, Threads, Bluesky.
  4. Click Save niches.
  5. Aidelly starts discovery. Initial trends appear within ~15 minutes.

Tip: specificity beats reach. "Pricing experiments in SaaS" gets you sharper trends than "SaaS".

Step 3 — Read the trends feed

Each card on the feed represents a trend Aidelly thinks is breaking out.

  • Score — virality score (higher = accelerating faster).
  • Snippet — the post / video / pin that triggered detection.
  • Source creator — who posted it.
  • Niche tag — which of your niches it matches.
  • Why it's trending — auto-generated one-line summary.
  • Status — new, saved (you marked it interesting), curated (you've made content from it), or dismissed (you're not interested).

Default view hides dismissed. Use the filter bar at the top to switch.

Step 4 — Curate a trend into your queue

When a trend looks like something you should post about:

  1. Click the trend card.
  2. Click Use this trend.
  3. Pick the action:
    • Draft a post about it — opens Create Post with a starter caption.
    • Send to Idea Board — captures the trend on the board for development later.
    • Add as content automation source — feeds the trend into a recurring automation rule.
  4. The trend's status flips to curated so you don't re-handle it.

If a trend is irrelevant, click Dismiss on the card. Dismissed trends are filtered out of future discovery rounds for that niche.

Step 5 — Track the influencers behind the trends

When a creator keeps surfacing in your trends, formalize the relationship:

  1. On any trend card, click the source creator's name.
  2. Click Track this creator.
  3. They move into Creator Clone so you can watch their patterns in detail.

This is the "influencer handoff" — Viral Trends finds them, Creator Clone studies them.

Step 6 — Adjust the refresh cadence

Discovery runs automatically, but you can force a refresh.

  1. Click Refresh now in the top-right of the feed.
  2. Aidelly re-scans your niches across the configured platforms.
  3. New trends (if any) appear in 1–3 minutes.

This costs a small number of AI Credits per refresh; check the cost confirmation before clicking.

Common pitfalls

  • The feed is empty. Your niches may be too narrow, too broad, or use vocabulary the platforms don't index well. Try rephrasing — "remote team standups" rather than "async standups".
  • Same trend keeps appearing. It's still accelerating. The status auto-flips to "stable" when growth slows.
  • The "Use this trend" draft is generic. Brand Profile drives tone. Fill it in and try again.
  • Influencer handoff isn't available. Creator Clone requires a Scale or higher plan. Trends discovery is available on all plans, but the formal tracking handoff isn't.

What to do next

Idea Board

Capture raw thoughts the moment they happen, then polish them into platform-ready posts with AI when you have time to sit down.

Creator Clone

Pick public creators you admire; Aidelly studies their posting cadence, hooks, and content mix, then turns the patterns into a weekly content plan for your brand.