Viral Friday: Cristiano Ronaldo vs Veyron

Written by Niels Bellaar on January 18th, 2008 | no comments

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 weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Nike with Cristiano Ronaldo vs Bugatti Veyron. To promote the new Nike Mercurial Vapor IV shoes Manchester United player Cristiano Ronaldo and the fastest car ever, the Bugatti Veyron, test who’s quicker. The runner up spot is for Bloody Omaha. BBC show Timewatch reconstructed the battle of Omaha Beach in just four days time with very little budget. Corey Delaney’s Best Street Party Ever completes this week’s top 3. The Australian teenager got world-famous after organizing a party at his parents house. A stunning 5.000 people came to the party, which ended in total chaos.

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!

1. Cristiano Ronaldo vs Bugatti Veyron

To promote the new Nike Mercurial Vapor IV shoes Manchester United player Cristiano Ronaldo and the Bugatti Veyron test who’s quicker. The Veyron can reach its max speed of 253 mph in just under a minute. Will the Bugatti have it’s revenge after the loss versus the Eurofighter Typhoon? Or will Cristiano and his very fast Nike Mercurial Vapor IV boots overcome? The shoes, which can be bought from February 1st, already prove to be winners; Ronaldo scored a hattrick versus Newcastle United on Old Trafford last week.

2. Bloody Omaha

Omaha Beach was the code name for one of the principal landing points of the Allied invasion of German-occupied France in the Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, during World War II. The German defensive preparations and the lack of any defense in depth indicated that their plan was to stop the invasion at the beaches. Four lines of obstacles were constructed in the water and on the beach. The landing on Omaha Beach lead to vast allied losses, but still resulted in an allied victory. BBC’s show Timewatch, with Richard Hammond, reconstructed the battle. Due to the immense interest for the video (660.000 views) the British Broadcasting Corporation decided to cast the documentary once again, on January 27th at 23:20 on BBC2. (Source: Wikipedia)

3. Best Street Party Ever

16 year old Aussie boy Corey Delaney, who threw a nice party in Melbourne last Saturday, is now world-famous! While his parents were taking a holiday, Corey ‘The Partyman’ decided to invite his friends over for a party. Corey invited his friends via MySpace, MSN and SMS, who invited their friends as well. A stunning 500 people came to the party, which ended in total chaos. Thirty police officers and a police helicopter responded to the calls of worried neighbors. The total damage rises to 13.000 dollar. Several media and weblogs from around the world report about the story. Nevertheless Corey revers to the party as “the best party ever”. (Source: The Guardian)

4. People in Order

People in Order’s Age is part of a series of short films that assembles the people of Britain in a given order. In just 3 minutes, we meet 100 different people who are arranged according to their age, starting from age 1. The video is by Lenka Clayton and James Price and part of www.portablefilmfestival.com. (Source: YouTube)

5. The Steve Jobs Macworld Keynote (in 60 Seconds)

Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs revealed a new lightweight notebook at the Macworld Conference & Expo on January 15, 2008. Apple claims the MacBook Air to be the world’s thinnest notebook ever at 0.76 inches (1.93 cm) thick at its thickest point and 0.16 inches (0.41 cm) at its thinnest. Mahalo’s Daily’s Veronica Belmont outlined the 90 minute lasting keynote in just 60 seconds. This short version of the keynote resulted in almost 250.000 views in just three days. (Source: Knack.be)

6. Naive New Beaters

These guys do what OK Go already did some years ago, only just a bit different. Their “Live Good” song sounds pretty good, but the video is just amazing! Will these guys be the next music/internet hype? Their video got viewed over 140.000 times in just ten days.

7. Gizmodo Prank

One of Gizmodo’s journalists/bloggers created commotion at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week after randomly disabling video screens. The blogger used a device called TV-B-Gone to mess up several press events Gizmodo were invited to. Obviously the guys recorded their prank and posted it on their blog, but the reactions are not exactly what they hoped for… 633,562 views and almost 1.000 reactions, mostly disapproving their actions. The reporter was banned from any future CES events. (Source: news.com)

8. Porsche Cayenne GTS

German automobile manufacturer Porsche made a television commercial for the new Cayenne GTS. The commercial will have it’s debut in the United States during the NFL playoffs. In the video the GTS, with it’s 4.8 liter V8, roars at his brothers. Obviously the brothers roar back. The commercial payoff? “The bloodlines are unmistakable. The new Cayenne GTS. Porsche there is no substitute.” The commercial spread lightning fast over the web and has more than 100.000 YouTube views in ten days time. (Source: Autoblog.nl)

9. HP Office Orchestra

Last week information technology corporation Hewlett Packard launched it’s new campaign, titled ‘Happy People’. The campaign focuses on SME’s in the United Kingdom and is linked to a competition to win a £10,000 office makeover. To convey the image of a united and fluid office working together as a team, the video displays a small workforce knocking and rattling out a rendition of Mozart’s ‘Eine Kleine Nachtmusik’. (Source: Viralmonitor)

10. Lynx: Get In There

Lynx, the world’s most popular deodorant brand (also known as Axe), and British advertising agency Bartle Bogle Hegarty relaunched its brand site with a digital push. The site, Lynxeffect.com, is based around helping men ‘Get in There’ with women. The site contains news, a mobile application, widgets and hidden camera footage. The campaign is supported with homepage takeovers on The Sun, FHM and Heavy, a branded YouTube channel, Bebo profiles, Flickr and seeding by Goviral on several blogs and the VideoEgg Network. (Source: NMA.co.uk, The Guardian)

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