Among the advertisers during the Super Bowl yesterday was a brand I did not expect to be there; Google. While Google is providing the other advertisers a place on YouTube (in the AdBlitz channel) it is strange to see Google advertising its search engine on the big screen. The ‘Parisian Love’ ad shows exactly what Google Search is about:
You might have already seen this video some time ago; it was uploaded on 19 November 2009 in the SearchStories channel (where there are six more SearchStory videos). Before airing last night the video had about 1 million views, now it has 2. Talking about viral.
Adidas Basketball recently launched a new campaign featuring several famous basketball players in their “It’s On Me For My Brotherhood” campaign. The YouTube channel has been redesigned to have the look and feel of the campaign and features basketball player Dwight Howard.
Instead of seeding normal video assets, Adidas chose to let all the interaction take place on YouTube itself with interactive videos.
Once again Vodafone have been plagued by an employee with a peculiar sense of a humour. Late last year one of the Vodafone guys in Hungary got the boot because of a cheeky Twitter message at the expense of T-Mobile.
This time the Twitter post was not quite as clever and ever more so immature. Yesterday afternoon many of the thousands of followers of the VodafoneUK Twitter account were surprised by the revelation that “VodafoneUK is fed up of dirty homo’s and is going after beaver’
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Bridgestone: Whale Of A Tale. Three friends. One Journey. Nothing unusual. Or is it? See this Bridgestone Superbowl ad trailer and find out. The runner up spot is for the Sussex Safer Roads Partnership. Embrace Life, tackles the issue about wearing seat belts in a different way. iPad Keynote In Less Than 180 Seconds completes this week’s top 3. Apple keynotes are great, but long… So here’s a short recap of the iPad introduction keynote. Amazing!
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Viralblog released the announcement of The SpinAwards, the Dutch awards for creativity in digital media 2 weeks ago, with two great viral videos. The organization offered us two additional virals, again parodies of a foreign ‘creative’.
Why compare Italian’s Prime Minister Sylvio Berlusconi with Smeagol (Gollum) from Tolkien’s Hobbit & Lord of the Rings? Since it looks like the tv and media tycoon feels he has turned into the Lord of the Web…
Italy is the only country in Europe where the prime minister is the owner of media. Berlusconi’s TV stations and the -buy his government controlled RAI have 90% of the eyeballs in Italy. And 80% of the Italian population gets its information from TV.
Can you imagine that Italy is the only country in Europe that has just approved a law which makes video websites like YouTube (owned by Google) responsible for all the uploaded content? With this ridiculous law, for the first time in history, internet companies like YouTube will be fully responsible and accountable for the user generated content that is uplaoded.
Sunday, CBS broadcast the 52nd annual Grammy Awards. This year, Recording Academy, responsible for the organisation of the grand event, embraced social media in their efforts to promote the Grammys. In order to do so, they launched the campaign “We’re all fans” to engage and involve fans.
Last week, previous to the event, Mashable’s Christina Warren posted an interview with Even Greene, the Chief Marketing Officer of the Recording Academy about social media and the Academy wanted to get involved in social media, if done correctly. Now, two days after the event, the web is buzzing with articles on the Grammys going social. And did they succeed?
You never know what will happen when surprising your teacher on her birthday. These students had no idea what was coming when they decided to give their teacher two hamsters for her birthday.
The video got more than 1 million views in a week’s time over various channels. The idea was thought of by Belgian student Astrid De Ruddere for an assignment with a group of students. Naturally, no hamsters were hurt during the making of the video
We are proud and extremely excited to announce that Igor Beuker, Editor in Chief of Viralblog and founder of social media marketing agency SocialMedia8 and online video metrics company ViralTracker will be speaking at the Social Media World Forum in London on the 15th of March.
The event is shaping up to be one of the leading events on social media in Europe, with over 3,000 expected attendees and 300 world class speakers including people from Facebook, Bebo, Becks, Orange and Ikea.
This is the last day of this week and the last day of this month and I thought I would sum up which topics have been generating the most tweets this past week.
If you want to find out what is hot on the web at the moment, Twitter is the perfect tool. With millions of tweets crossing its servers and constantly updated trending topics, it’s easy to find out what’s happening right now. Continue reading Haiti Continues To Be A Popular Topic Online »
