Archive for May 16th, 2008

Medion Erazor: Viral Game Trailer Sissyfight

Written by Igor Beuker on May 16th, 2008 | 3 comments

Is your PC a Sissy? Get a tough one! This is the call-to-action in the recently launched viral game trailer of Medion Erazer, the world’s first gaming PC.

The game trailer was created by TBWA Germany and animation company Virtual Republic.

I really like the game trailer created by TBWA. And more important, so does the target group: hardcore PC users and gamers, based on many reactions online.

But if you think of closing the loop in viral marketing: with this hardcore online target group, why not also show the URL of Medion Erazer’s website in the end screen of this viral trailer?

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Viral Friday: Jessica Alba Staring Contest

Written by Niels Bellaar on May 16th, 2008 | 5 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.
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This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to IBeatYou.com with Jessica Alba Staring Contest. After her lipsync adventure for online competition site IBeatYou, owned by her fiancé Cash Warren, Jessica now takes on another challenge. The runner up spot is for Apple Mac Music Video. 23-year-old filmmaker Dennis Liu, producer at BBDO New York, created this very creative clip for indie/pop/alternative musical duo The Bird and the Bee from Los Angeles. MUTO completes this week’s top 3. In his latest video Italian street artist Blu combines street art and stop motion.

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!

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