China is the very fast growing economy. China will host the Beijing 2008 Olympics Games this year. And China’s digital advertising revenues are increasing at dazzling pace. So coming months, I will focus at China several times.
China, a country notorious for censoring the Internet. Touted as having some of the most sophisticated firewalls in the world, greatfirewallofchina.org lets you check if you can pass China’s strict IP monitors. For brands that focus at expanding to the Chinese market, it’s very important to check if your website is available or censored in China.
The Chinese government began blocking access to the popular blogging site LiveJournal, cutting off its citizens from the roughly 1.8 million blogs the service hosts. Read more at Nextlust or at Wired. And please let our community know if your website is blocked or available in China! Let our readers know what trends you expect in or from China this year…
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!
Recently, my mom and dad decided they were going to get a new floor in our living room. We live in a pre 20th century house, so it’s rather old. The floor started to skew and tiles were coming lose. We needed a new floor.
This task turned into somewhat of a disaster. There were several factors at play, but one of the main ones was the fact that my father felt he could save a lot of money by doing some of the legwork himself. He seems to think that rather often, whenever something round the house needs doing, he’ll do it himself. At this point the whole family is gathered around him, waiting for him to mess up and call the expert.
Compared to me my dad is quite handy, but he isn’t exactly a Bob the Builder type a guy. He tries, bless him, but more often than not fails. Remember Tim ‘the Toolman’ Taylor?
You may wonder where I am going with this, so I’ll get to the point.
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 Bill Gates’ Last Day at Microsoft. Last Sunday Microsoft founder Bill Gates held his 12th and last ‘keynote speech’ at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Prior to his speech Gates showed the audience a hilarious, seven minute lasting video about his last day at Microsoft. The runner up spot is for Mark Malkoff Lives in IKEA. Actor, comedian and filmmaker Mark Malkoff (31) was looking for a cheap way to spend the night in New York City. An IKEA store in New Jersey offered him a place to sleep for a week. Cloverfield Clues Cloverfield Clues completes this week’s top 3. Next Friday the mysterious film by producer J.J. Abrams, the man behind the Alias and Lost series, will finally have its opening night. For over six months we hear the wildest rumors about this enigmatic project.
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!
Remember the great viral commercial ‘Mayday, We Are Sinking’ starring the German Coast Guard from Language company Berlitz? It was a cheap production but hilarious, and it reached millions of internet users without spending media costs or high CPM’s.
Well, do I have news for you? Berlitz launched another great viral commercial: Ken Touched This. So here we are: again buzzing about Berlitz and linking to the Berlitz site. Great for their branding, great for Google results, great for their pagerank, great to get free site traffic and great for Berlitz’s online sales.
Yes marketers, viral commercials and social media optimization (seeding) can do lots more for your marketing goals than you might expect. Only thing you have to do is: hire an experienced viral agency and listen to them! They are able to think in a three dimensional way (or 360 degrees) approach, unlike most of the traditional advertising agencies you tend to hire. Un-think is my motto!
Thanks Martina at Adverblog, I found this viral in your rss feed.
John West understands in it’s Red Salmon tv and viral commercials that salmons, bears and eagles are the ingredients for very tasty viral and tv commercials. But John West scores again with it’s new Tuna To Go tv commercial (below), showing a massive shark attack.
But if you take a look at the YouTube Top 10 Videos of the Year 2007, you will see that Battle at Kruger is the number 1 video of 2007. And that’s also showing a great or huge pussy for massive reach.
Swindon-based Inbox Digital has created a simple, clean and ultra-playable online viral racing game for Italian carmaker Fiat to promote the new sporty Panda 100HP car model. The Art Deco-inspired Shockwave game “Fiat Panda Racer“, available in seven languages and 16 countries, is set in the historic Fiat Lingotto factory in Turin, which houses a roof-top track.
The fast-paced 3D quest kicks off on the bottom floor of the factory, built in 1915 and opened in 1922, and continues via a spiral ramp to the rooftop track, where players are encouraged to complete three laps as fast as possible. The game offers some extra features, e.g. replays with different camera angles, global ranking, private leagues and ghost cars. Visitors can challenge others by sending the viral across to friends. (Source: NMA.co.uk & Precision Marketing)
Yesterday billionaire Bill Gates gave his final Microsoft keynote at the 2008 CES show in Las Vegas. In July 2008 Gates will leave his full-time job at Microsoft to concentrate on his philanthropic work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Before he got into the major tech news last night, he played a seven minute video spoof portraying what his last day on the job would be like, starring himself, Brian Williams, Steve Ballmer, Matthew McConaughey, Robbie Bach, Jay-Z, Bono, Steven Spielberg, George Clooney, Jon Stewart, Kevin Turner, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Al Gore, Ray Ozzie and Craig Mundie. Also checkout the short video “The Final Days“, a humorous self parody of former US President Bill Clinton. (Source: istartedsomething)
As a blogger, although a relatively new and obscure one, I was lucky enough to receive e free copy of their e-book for review. And that’s what I like about this book and its authors. They practice what they preach. I’ve been giving a few workshops about blogging and like to think I’m starting to understand the undercurrent of the blogosphere, but until recently all my knowledge came from reading. That’s when I decided I had to get into blogging, to not just read and try to understand, but to get involved and actually understand.
This item is about sexy girls, adult content, online video, e-commerce and fashion. Interested? Read along! The most widely known English translation of the Kama Sutra was made in 1883. The book gained global reputation for being the best of pornographic work. One age later, the adult industry monetized adult content on every digital channel, from internet to mobile phones.
Brands discovered fast that pretty girls and sexy babes could go viral easily and get free attention. Just take a look at Unilever’s Axe Effect. A while ago, I also wrote online video would beat the number of monthly Google searches in 2008. Yes Sir, online video is one of the important trends for 2008!
The fashion industry have been very slow online last decade and that’s an understatement. Actually fashion brands really have been ignoring trendy consumers terribly. But they are learning fast and I predict many fashion brands will start selling online in 2008.
And if fashion brands start combining pretty girls and e-commerce with trends like online video in a smart way like KnickerPicker does with it’s Online Dressing Room, fashion will go viral fast! It find it very slick, very smart and even writing about. What’s your opinion on KnickerPicker?
