Written by Martin Michalik on January 27th, 2012 |
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 Samsunged, the sequel to the next big thing video. The runner up is NIKE+ FuelBand – this futuristic gadget challenges you to #makeitcount. And Chevy Happy Grad completes this week’s top 3, showing (almost) the best parents of the world, they were really, really close.
Do you want to see this week’s list from 1 to 5? Go on then, and have a look! We’d like to hear your opinion about the virals. Have fun!
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Written by Igor Beuker on January 26th, 2012 |
Strategic social media planning is about Owned, Earned and Paid media. And many global CMO’s are breaking their brains on global, glocal and local social media strategies. This new world map of social networks will make your life much easier…

The map, created by Vincenzo Cosenza, an Italian digital strategist, shows the global popularity of various social networks.
Unsurprisingly, the blue monster called Facebook tops the list in 127 countries out of the total 136 countries in the list…
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Written by Laurens Bianchi on January 24th, 2012 |
To promote Air China in Sweden, and highlight the fact that it flies not only to China but to destinations throughout Asia, Air China have been using restaurant check-ins on Facebook in a cool concept.

The airline created partnerships with a number of popular Asian restaurants in Sweden, to act as ambassadors for Air China. At each restaurant guests were encouraged to check-in with Air China on Facebook as they sat down to eat.
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Written by Chi Chung Man on January 23rd, 2012 |
Today marks Chinese New Year, big festivities are going on in China. What’s the big fuss about? Well, it’s one of the biggest holidays for Chinese people.

And why is this important again? Because you’re an early bird and are eager understand a market that will most likely change the world economy. Chinese New Year is a very interesting holiday marketers should pay close attention to.
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Written by Martin Michalik on January 23rd, 2012 |
Time flies and since it’s not easy to follow, read and catch-up with everything, we bring you a Weekly Recap from ViralBlog: all of the past week in one place.

Last week on ViralBlog among others “Measuring The Business Impact Of Social Media”, “How Should CMOs Change The Communication?” and “Retail Trends 2012: Bricks Perish, Screens Profit”.
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Written by Martin Michalik on January 22nd, 2012 |
ROI, CTR, engagement rate, fans increase,…Also the social media activities must be measured for analysis and details on the impact of your business.

As more companies understand that social media is about long-term and strategic approach that goes hand-in-hand with other marketing channels, it’s no longer perceived as a single shot into the dark.
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Written by Nickolay Lamm on January 21st, 2012 |
Have you ever looked at your Facebook news-feed and almost clicked on a link, realizing at the last second that it was just another Facebook scam? Or maybe you went all the way and clicked on the scam.

Although they are annoying and their presence has been steadily decreasing, you can learn how to create a viral video, by taking a look at some of the more recent Facebook scams…
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Written by Martin Michalik on January 20th, 2012 |
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 Volkswagen Game: The Bark Side, doubting you ever heard a “dogchestra” before. The second one is Old Spice – Blown Mind, which is so powerful THAT IT MAKES YOU SPEAK IN CAPS LOCK! And also blows your mind. And a simple Hello completes this week’s top 3 with an awesome cut / edit skills.
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Written by Neil Draper on January 19th, 2012 |
Always on, connected 365 days a year. Consuming information where, with who and when you want it. Making decisions to go where you want or to buy what you want; on the spot. Finding out what is happening around you and connecting with your friends 24/7.

This is what consumers are doing at the moment and in the rate smartphones are being sold, it is almost inevitable that this will become the standard. Brands go where the people are; however they seem to be lagging when it comes to establishing their mobile strategies. So lets look at my top 5 mobile trends for the coming year…
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Written by Igor Beuker on January 19th, 2012 |
The retail trend for brick and mortar stores in Holland are pitch black. 30% of the stores might have disappeared from the streets before end 2015. The empty square meters will go from 2 million to 8 million. Screen and Social Commerce will grow massively. Let’s take a deeper dive, into PSFK Future of Retail…
Many small and large offline retailers are looking for ways to update their clients to gain store traffic. Many retailers are looking for group deals, point and loyalty programs, ERP and CRM.
Several brands have embedded technology and innovation into their products and stores, to improve customer experiences and to drive sales.
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