Viral Friday: Tiger Woods Walks on Water
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 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 Electronic Arts with Tiger Woods 09 - Walk On Water. EA posted this video as a reaction to a so called “glitch” video about the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 video game. The runner up spot is for Taubman Centers with Yearbook Yourself. To drive more teens and their parents into its malls for back-to-school shopping, Taubman Centers is taking them back in time with the Yearbook Yourself website. Samsung’s Omnia Unboxing completes this week’s top 3. Geeks love seeing video of someone getting their mitts on a new gadget we haven’t seen in stores yet. But this time, it’s got a bit of a twist.
Do you want to see this week’s list from 1 to 5? Go on then, and have a look! We’d like to hear your opinion about the virals. Have fun!
1. Tiger Woods 09 - Walk On Water
Electronic Arts, an American developer, marketer, publisher, and distributor of computer and video games, made a video response to this YouTube video by “Levinator25“. In Levinator25’s video we see how he lets Tiger Woods stand on water in the Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08 video game. For the 09 version of the game EA responds to the video stating it was not a glitch, Tiger Woods is just that good. The video got over 1.9 million YouTube views since it was uploaded ten days ago.
2. Yearbook Yourself
Taubman Centers is an owner of United States upscale regional malls and has headquarters in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. To drive more teens and their parents into its malls for back-to-school shopping, Taubman Centers and Colle+McVoy (part of MDC Partners) are taking them back in time with the Yearbook Yourself website. The site allows visitors to upload their photos and morph their faces onto yearbook photos spanning five decades. They can easily move from the 1950s through the 1990s and see themselves with the hair and fashion styles of the times while listening to music inspired by that era.
The site is immensely popular with sites like TechCrunch, kottke, Basic Thinking and 900 others linking to and posting about the campaign. (Source: Colle+McVoy)
3. Samsung Omnia Unboxing
Samsung put together a fantastic viral ad for their new Omnia touch phone. It’s meant to look like you’re typical “unboxing” video commonly seen on gadget blogs. They created a tech blog called technivator.blogspot.com to make the video look like a true unboxing video. Geeks love seeing video of someone getting their mitts on a new gadget we haven’t seen in stores yet. But this time, it’s got a bit of a twist. (Source: Viralroots)
4. Usain Bolt Celebrates Early … Very Early
Usain Bolt, nicknamed “Lightning’ Bolt”, is a Jamaican sprinter. Bolt holds the Olympic and world records for the 100 metres at 9.69 seconds, the 200 metres at 19.30 seconds and, along with his teammates, the 4×100 metres relay at 37.10 seconds, all set at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
On August 22 Quietlibrary.com posted the hilarious video reaction “Usain Bolt Celebrates Early … Very Early” on YouTube. Thanks to a feature on the video portal’s homepage the video got over 2.3 million views and can be found on 76 blogs. (Source: Wikipedia)
5. IKEA: Warte Bis September
IKEA Germany is running a campaign called ‘”Warte bis September” (“Wait until September”). On the website we see a guy called Nils. He waits. You can call him and ask him why (on +49 40 22 61 11 61), or use Twitter or e-mail. The concept for the campaign came from Hamburg based Nordpol and is based on previous livestream concepts as The Heidies and No Stop Fernando. (Source: Adverblog)
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