The crazy Dutch try to improve the world record at Domino Day each year. But last attempt failed with ‘only’ 3.671.465 stones that fell.
This old skool Philips viral commercial tapped into the Domino Day phenomenon with a simple but cool viral commercial.
Choirs can be a hit creating viral commercials. Certainly this viral Victoria Bitter commercial is great. Honda launched this commercial with a choir.
But sometimes users tap into viral commercials and create their own commercial. And so did somebody for Honda. See the Honda spoof below.
Which spot do you like better? The real Honda spot or the spoof spot?
Why is it that so many innovators and internet entrepreneurial people love Steve Jobs so much? Is it because he is a visionair and CEO of Apple and Pixar? Or is it because he is a charismatic leader, very honest and human person? Is it his passion for great work he loves?
Take a look at Steve’s Stanford Commencement 2005 speech below. Steve is so open and honest, it will probably make you shiver too? Part one is about his adoption, being a college drop-out, his fascination for typography and connecting dots in life.
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Last month we announced the popular holiday viral of OfficeMax would return any time soon. The wait is over! One of the most popular holiday websites from last year has launched again! This time you can upload a headshot of yourself and three other friends or members of your family. The faces are then transplanted onto the bodies of a troupe of festively dressed dancing elves.
Last year the holiday themed viral microsite ElfYourself.com helped contribute to a 20% increase in holiday traffic to OfficeMax’s website. The microsite received over 36 million hits (according to AdAge) in just five weeks, beating Burger King’s Subservient Chicken (19 million in one year) and CareerBuilder’s Monk-E-mail (9 million in eight months) both of which are continuously held up as the benchmark for viral success.
One of my first items at ViralBlog was about the united consumers initiative MyFootballClub. Since I like soccer and web2.0 I immediately supported MyFootballclub and became a paying member.
Last week I got this e-mail from MyFootballClub announcing: MyFootballClub has agreed a deal in principle to purchase a controlling stake in Ebbsfleet United FC. Placed 9th in the Conference, Ebbsfleet United FC is one promotion from reaching the Football League for the first time in its history.
Ebbsfleet United FC’s head coach Liam Daish commented: “As a football fan, I think the MyFootballClub idea is fantastic. And as the coach, I look forward to the challenge of working with thousands of members to produce a winning team. Assistant Alan Kimble and myself are 100% committed to making this work”.
Social media is hotter than ever before. Everybody around the globe is talking about the rapid growth of phenomenon social network Facebook. But most large social networks and video portals reply poor if you do an advertising request per e-mail. Will these new players grab a large chunk of the online advertising budgets?
Will Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites transform advertising? Yes sir, says Mark Zuckerberg, who is 23 and the boss of Facebook, a popular social-networking website. Standing in front of about 250 mostly middle-aged advertising executives on November 6th, he announced that Facebook was offering them a new deal.
“For the last hundred years media has been pushed out to people,” he said, “but now marketers are going to be a part of the conversation”. Using his firm’s new approach, he claimed, advertisers will be able to piggyback on the “social actions” of Facebook users, since “people influence people”.
Since Microsoft bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 Million, Zuckerberg’s social advertising strategy must make sense? Share us your thoughts about social advertising.
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Free Rice. Word game Freerice.com got a lot of media attention in the past week. The game asks its contestants to guess the meaning of certain words. For every correct answer the game donates ten rice grains to the World Food Program. The runner up spot is for OBI. The viral video of construction market OBI.de is a huge success in Germany with over 4 million views in just three weeks time. And the viral is an international success as well. CollegeHumor’s 24: The Unaired 1994 Pilot completes this week’s top 3. A hilarious spoof of the television thriller 24, which goes back ten years in time. We see how the cast deals with difficult situations using 1994 technology.
Do you want to see this week’s list from 1 to 10? Go on then, and have a look! We’d like to hear your opinion about the virals. Have fun!
Dutch capital Amsterdam is globally famous for it’s coffee shops and window shopping at the red light district. But Amsterdam cops do not tolerate theft in their city. Dutch cops arrested a 17 year old boy for virtual theft in Habbo Hotel, the virtual child community.
The 17 year old robber was arrested this week for stealing virtual furniture (with a value of 4.000 Euros!) from the Dutch Habbo Hotel. The cops are also hearing 4 other 15 year old boys for similar cyber crimes in Habbo.
Legal problem is that virtual theft does not exist under Dutch law. But the 17 year old thief is being charged with hacking and fencing. So don’t say I did not warn you: in Amsterdam hash and hookers are legal, but committing a virtual crime, will make you do time!
The Dutch Habbo Hotel has 500.000 active members. Habbo Hotel is active in 29 countries, counts 7 Million active members worldwide and sells credits to it’s users each month for approximately 3 to 4 Million Euros!! With the credits children can buy e.g. virtual furniture to pimp their rooms. 25 Habbo credits value 4,75 Euros. What do you think about this arrest? Share us your thoughts!
YouTube, the world-famous video sharing site, is expanding quickly to new foreign markets. The popular website unveiled its international expansion plans earlier this year in Paris, where it announced the launch of 9 localized domains in Brazil, France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Ireland and the UK. In the past few months the Google-owned property has rolled out eight new local versions, totaling 17 localized sites outside the US.
The Banc de Sang i Teixits is a regenerative medicine research centre from Catalonia Spain. They are specialists in immunobiology, molecular analysis, research a lab and a bloodbank. I understand your assumption: “Probably boring as hell and not viral in a million years”?!!
But I think it’s the cheapest viral I have ever seen. And this viral commercial really fits the KISS principle in every way: Keep It Stupid & Simple. But look for yourself. It’s a smart, witty and compelling viral commercial. Buzz worthy and viral as well!
Show us your thoughts! Ever seen such a cool piece of viral marketing before? Did you get the message immediately? And did you check this VSPOT again also?
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