Nothing but good about the dead. Nokia has launched a successful viral commercial, starring Bruce Lee to promote its new N96 in China. The Bruce Lee Ping Pong viral is a weapon of mass affection and has crossed many borders already…
If you are lucky, have a good bandwith connection, or live in China, you might get access to the dedicated N96 campaign website.
Apparently this limited edition of the N96 is a $1,300 handset for fans. If you consider it offers no exclusive technology or application, but has lots of embedded materials of the Little Dragon, like rare pictures.
Upload Cinema, its an initiative I like. It reminds me of Cannes: great creative minds sitting together in a cinema, watching great creative work. Upload Cinema is a film club that takes the best web films to the big screen. Every first Monday of the month at 9.30 PM a fresh program of Internet shorts is screened at movie theater “De Uitkijk” in Amsterdam.
Upload Cinema is a cozy get-together for people who enjoy watching, sharing and making web films. The aim is simple: to offer each month an inspiring and entertaining feature length program of Internet shorts.
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 Happy Christmas from AKQA. Interactive marketing agency AKQA has put an inventive twist on the well-known festive tune ‘Jingle Bells’ with the aid of 49 microwaves. The runner up spot is for Whopper Virgins. Burger King traveled over 20,000 miles to remote areas to find people who have never heard of the Whopper and perform the world’s purest taste test. Seagate: Stack The Memory completes this week’s top 3. Sniper Twins were seeking a sponsor for their new single and a geeky 5-minute music video. Seagate showed interest and funded the project. The sponsorship paid off!
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!
Some of the smartest social media strategist gathered their thoughts on predictions of social media for the year 2009 in an easy to read PDF. What will the future bring according to these thought leaders? In this posting some of the highlights of this document and the predictions in social media according to a blogger of ViralBlog.
First, lets take a look at the document itself. In this document Joseph Jaffe, Jeremiah Owyang, Charlene Li, Andy Sernovitz, David Armano and many other social media strategist share their predictions. Read on to see what they think what will happen in the upcoming year!
Now Pizza Hut is trying to go viral. Their smart but simple viral video clip seems to become a weapon of mass affection, with 250.000 clip views at YouTube in 10 days. See how Joey tries to get a pizza delivered, in a pizza store…
In “Kicked out of a Pizza Place,” made by Mediocre Films, a man visits mom-and-pop pizza parlors, has Pizza Hut delivered and is ejected. The film, posted on YouTube and MySpace on Wednesday, had gotten about 250.000 clip views on both sites within 10 days.
Pizza Hut worked through Zadby, a broker that connects marketers with viral-video producers. Zadby links marketers with producers based on the type of project and the number of views they’re looking for. Clients are issued refunds if they don’t get the audience promised, though Beau Brewer, general manager of Zadby, said they haven’t ever had to issue one.
Judson Laipply, creator and dancer of the former #1 Most Viewed (All Time) Video on YouTube, is back! The motivational speaker and comedian from Bucyrus, Ohio has launched a new website featuring a viral application based on the viral video sensation “Evolution of Dance”.
In February 2008 Judson already announced that there would be a sequal to the 2006 video that took the Internet by storm. Now almost a year later you can get an exclusive first look at some of the dances that will be in the upcoming “Evolution of Dance 2″ video by participating in “Evolution of You!” at www.eod2.com.
Marketers see viral clips as great opportunity to reach digital consumers fast and cheap. Marketers have also discovered that viral clips (or VSPOTS) can be great conversation starters. What if marketers will also learn that response rates (or Click Through Rates) at viral clips are 4-9%?!
Beginning of 2008, 84% of all global CMO’s said social media marketing was their #1 priority at their marketing agenda’s for 2008. The study was delivered by Forrester, the most reliable research company we know. And it really seems that social media marketing will be even hotter in 2009?
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 Iraqi Journalist Throws Shoes At Bush. President Bush’s farewell visit to Iraq last weekend became an instant internet hit thanks to Iraqi TV journalist Muntadar al-Zaidi. The runner up spot is for Shanghai Lady Drives Off With Tow Truck. A Chinese Chevrolet Captiva owner is angry that her SUV is going to be towed… Cute Animal Christmas Song completes this week’s top 3. The BBC wishes its viewers a happy holiday season, but also asks them to help our furry friends.
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!
LG launched the new LG KP500 Cookie. The slim and stylish handset has an easy to use 3 inch full touch screen, motion sensor, handwriting recognition and is the first touch mobile handset at the mid-market price level. See Stickman Trapped In Phone…
Cookie has an embedded stylus pen that makes it easy to draw your creations anytime, anyplace as demonstrated in above Stickman video. Also available is the KP500 promotional video.
The campaign was launched by Mindshare. The natural seeding is done by social media marketing agency SocialMedia8. The campaign is targeted at Thailand, Malaysia, Brazil and the United Kingdom. The reach and response of the LG Cookie videos are being tracked by ViralTracker.
Peter Kim is a respected marketeer in the social media spaces. As an old Forrester analyst he knows a few things about social media and likes to share his expertise on his blog: Being Peter Kim. For a blogposting he collected examples of social media by corporates and big brand, which resulted in this blogposting.
But things got better. He decided to put these examples in a wiki list, so anyone who felt like adding some examples was able to. This eventually resulted in a large list, full of good examples which can be sorted by country, brand, etc.
