The Viral Posts library in Depost AI holds 100k+ high-performing LinkedIn posts you can search and filter by format, pillar, industry, and creator. Open one and Viral Intelligence shows the hook, the call to action, and a score for how far it beat what is normal for an account that size. Repurpose takes your angle on it into chat.
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Why it matters
The Depost AI viral posts library holds 100k+ viral LinkedIn posts you can filter by format, pillar, industry, creator, and virality, each with its hook, its call to action, and a score for why it worked.
A screenshot of someone else’s viral post tells you what they wrote. It does not tell you why the first line stopped the scroll, what the ending asked for, or whether the numbers were big because the post was good or because the account was. Depost AI keeps the posts and a read on each one, so what you borrow is the pattern, not the words.
21.77%
median engagement rate for carousel posts on LinkedIn, 196% more than video and 585% more than text.
Buffer, 2026
27%
more engagement for posts of 1,301 to 2,500 characters than for posts under 400, across 372,126 posts.
AuthoredUp, 2026
1.3s
to win or lose a reader on LinkedIn, from an analysis of 1.8 million posts.
Algorithm Insights Report, 2025
How it works
Format and pillar together ask a narrow question: how carousels are being used for educational posts. Add industry, language, one creator, an engagement range, or a virality band.
Open a post and get the hook and what kind of hook it is, the call to action, seven scores out of five, audience fit, keywords, and the structure counted out.
Repurpose takes the post into chat so you can ask for your own version: your angle on the same idea, in your voice, as a draft you approve.
What ships
Industry, language, creator, an engagement range, four virality bands, six formats, and six pillars. Carousel plus Educational is a more useful question than what is going viral.
Engagement rate falls as an audience grows, so a raw rate ranks accounts by size. The score measures how far a post beat what is normal for its follower count, 0 to 100, banded Moderate to Explosive.
The opening line and what kind of hook it is, a Curiosity Gap or a Surprise. The call to action and what it asks for. The two parts that decide whether a post gets read and whether it gets a reply.
Utility, specificity, emotion, novelty, urgency, relatability, credibility, each out of five. A post at 5 on relatability and 2 on urgency tells you what to borrow and what to leave.
Words, lines, paragraphs, questions, numbers, bullets, emojis, hashtags, links. Whether a post is long stops being an impression, and the counts sit next to audience fit, keywords, and topics.
Repurpose takes a post into chat for your angle on the idea. Save puts it in Bookmarks. And Viral Posts is a context source chat draws on for trends and benchmarks, with the Sources chip showing which posts it used.
What goes viral
Six post shapes keep showing up in the library. Each one is a pillar, a format, a hook type, and a call to action, which is to say a filter you can set and a breakdown Viral Intelligence writes for every post it holds.
Someone did the work three times and shows the third attempt page by page. Carousels earn the highest median engagement of any LinkedIn format, and the numbers are why people save it.
A widely held belief, named, then refused in the first line. It scores high on novelty and urgency, and the comments fill with people defending the belief, which is the point.
A first-person account that turns on a detail nobody would invent: a date, an amount, a sentence someone said. Relatability carries it; specificity is what makes it believable.
The post asks, gives the common answer, then explains why it is wrong. Readers arrive to disagree and stay to argue, and the thread outlives the post.
A number worth announcing, followed immediately by what went wrong on the way to it. Credibility comes from the second half; the first half alone reads as a brag and scores like one.
A launch, an ad, a pricing page, taken apart with reasons. Utility scores highest here: readers keep it for the next time they build the same thing.
The idea, yes. The structure with the words swapped, no, and not because of a rule: the people who saw the original see the copy, and the copy scores like one. What the library is for is the layer underneath, the hook type, the pillar, the shape of the argument, the ending it chose. Take that into chat with your own experience and the post that comes out is yours in every way a reader can check.
There is no fixed number, because a thousand reactions is a normal week for one account and a career high for another. Depost AI scores each post on how far it beat the engagement rate expected for an account its size, 0 to 100, and bands the result: Moderate, Strong, High, Explosive. The bands are what the filter uses.
Depost AI maintains the library: high-performing public LinkedIn posts from creators across industries and languages, with their counts refreshed. There is nothing to set up.
Yes. Search the text for a topic or phrase, filter to one creator, and combine that with format, pillar, industry, language, an engagement range, or a virality band. Sort by newest or restrict the period.
Repurpose takes the post into chat, where you ask for your version: your angle on the same idea, in your voice. It is not a reword. Posting someone else’s structure with the words changed is obvious to anyone who saw the original, and the point of the intelligence is to borrow the pattern instead.
The idea, yes; the structure with the words swapped, no. The library breaks each post into the layer underneath, the hook type, the pillar, the call to action, and Repurpose takes that into chat with your own experience. What comes out is yours in every way a reader can check.
Viral Posts is one of the sources under Use context from, on by default. Ask what is working in your space or how your posts compare, and the answer draws on the library, with a Sources chip that opens to the exact posts. Benchmarking needs your own published history on the other side of the comparison.
The library, the search, and the filters are on every plan. Viral Intelligence, the score and the breakdown on each post, is included from Team.
Yes. The library is LinkedIn posts. Your own saves from LinkedIn, X, Reddit, and Threads live on the Bookmarks tab next to it.
Yes. Viral posts are one of the sources the Depost AI MCP server can search, so an assistant you already use can pull examples into its answer.
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Your brief comes with you: once you're set up, it's the team's first job.
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