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 Runawaybox.com with Ooh Girl! - An Honest R&B Song. Santa Monica based Runawaybox.com mainly produces its own content with their team. Their most successful video is a spoof of all R&B songs. The video got over 3 million views in just three weeks time. The runner up spot is for Hillary, Be My Best Friend. YouTube personality Venetian Princess from Boston joins Obama Girls battle with her political music video. I’m F*cking Obama completes this week’s top 3. Hugh and Jez Atkin created a hilarious spoof of Sarah Silverman’s I’m F*cking Matt Damon.
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!
Earlier we reported that EA and Hasbro teamed up to battle Facebook application Scrabulous. Apparently we only scratched the surface of the issue at the time as the whole situation is turning into a situation which would make the script writers of the ‘Bold & The Beautiful’ blush. It’s the company version of a Jerry Springer episode.
The game was created by two software developing brothers, Rajat and Jayant Aganwalla, from Calcutta. However, they created the game without consent form the copyright owners. Which belongs to Hasbro. Or is it Mattel? Actually, Hasbro owns the rights in North America, Mattel in the rest of the world.
Is the world’s largest interactive photo platform Flickr attacking online video mogul YouTube? Since today Flickr users can add video clips alongside their photos, a much requested and much anticipated feature that has been promised for over a year.
Flickr is effectively turning the photosharing site into more of a YouTube-type experience - but there is a twist. Adding video is now possible, but Flickr has chosen to aim for a different approach than the current videosharing sites.
To make sure that the company does not get into trouble with copyrighted material or long video’s, there is a limit in place that prevents users to upload videos of more than 90 seconds in length. Additionally, there is a 150 MB maximum file size - and you have to be a paying Pro-user.
The famous Webby Awards here for the 12th edition! Webby Honorees, Nominees and Winners mostly represent the best of the Web.
They are but a small percentage of total entries and have been chosen by members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences based on a number of creative and functional criteria. See them all here.
From Israel we see many virals coming. This viral commercial has a serious message in the end. It makes you think about the way that we are living and the consequences of our lifestyle choices to environment, earth, global warming and deforestation.
The viral commercial Hairy Situation was created by TBWA Digital in Israel for Altshuler-Shaham, to support green awareness and to encourage people to limit printing. What do you think of this campaign?
For years Southpark has been one of the most viewed and downloaded TV series on the internet. And none of it was filling the pockets of the show’s creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker. So alongside with the network which airs the episodes, Viacom, they have decided to offer them online. For free!
All episodes will be offered free of charge, but there will be ads during the episodes. The idea was raised last November, but has finally been executed.
The creative minds behind the show, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, have used the latest episode to express their feelings towards the latest operation. They also took the opportunity to ridicule the Writer’s strike of last year. Script writers are compared to Canadians who are going on strike, simply because they want more money. They suggest the money they receive could come from new internet revenues. Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Butters decide to create a viral video in hope of generating revenue, which can then be given to the Canadians.
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 YouTube with Rick Rolled. On April Fools day YouTube Rick Rolled its users by linking all of the featured videos to the Rick Astley video, resulting in over 9 million views. The runner up spot is for Exotic World Gifts with Elephant Paints Self Portrait. Online store Exotic World Gifts imports self portraits made by elephants. By selling their art they support these “Starving Elephant Artisans”. BBC’s Flying Penguins complete this week’s top 3. To promote BBC’s iPlayer Gorgeous and Passion Pictures created this April Fools joke video in which we see Terry Jones reporting from Antarctica about a unique colony of Adelie Penguins.
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 Pizza chain New York Pizza, founded in 1993 and one of the Netherlands fastest growing pizza delivery chains, has launched an integrated advertising campaign with three short ‘mafia style’ films featuring flour, tomato sauce and a pizza delivery boy, to prove that New York Pizza makes the best tasting Pizza around with an unrivalled passion for the best quality ingredients.
To promote the Damn Fucking Tasty ads, independent agency Selmore created for first time in the history of the brand a TV campaign. The commercials of Domino’s biggest rival, airing since March 27th, 2008 on national TV, will run through until October and are supported by online seeding and point of sale material.
As former CMO, former IAB CEO and last 4 years as digital agency MD, I have really experienced the power of Google. Google has disrupted marketing strategies, neutralized monopolies of large brands with huge marketing budgets and has offered small brands opportunities to compete and win.
Then why do I call Google the Cafeteria of the internet? Simply because people visit Google for a quick snack! They enter the cafeteria, drop their coin, grab the snack and leave again. It all happens in just 15 seconds!
Let me explain why I call Google the cafeteria of the internet and Facebook the new and trendy restaurant.
Are social networks, blogs, forums, communities and video portals (together called: social media) the next step after the search decade? No, I think Google will stay powerful for brands. But not for branding!
