Archive for January, 2009

Hinoki: The Well-Being Triple Play Community

Written by Igor Beuker on January 4th, 2009 | no comments

To promote the launch of Hinoki, a French website dedicated to well-being, a series of online commercials were launched recently. The baseline of below Jogging video is: “there is a better way to be in your bubble”. And in the bubble it certainly happens…


At the Hinoki website, users are able to set their profile through questions and then discover activities related to relax, zen and food. Users will find auto-coaching content and they will also have the possibility to meet real coaches, accredited by institutions.

Nouveau Jour, a French agency, has prepared two videos with Dak-Tirak, a French studio. This site is a project that was created at The Explocentre in Paris. The Explocentre is a division of Orange which is specialized in online R&D.

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Viral Friday: The Very Best Of 2008

Written by Paul van Veenendaal on January 2nd, 2009 | 1 comment

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.
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First of all – Happy new year and a fantastic 2009! In the first Viral Friday we look back at last year and present to you the 5 most popular virals of 2008!

The #1 position in the Best of Viral Friday 2008 goes to Officemax with Elf Yourself 2008. OfficeMax introduced Elf Yourself once again in 2008 for its third holiday season. The hilarious holiday greeting remains immensely popular with 57 million elves created in just 3 weeks. The runner up spot is for Yes We Can Song. The music video “Yes We Can Song” by Black Eyed Peas’ frontman Will.i.am and director Jesse Dylan became an instant viral sensation last year upon its release in early February. Iraqi Journalist Throws Shoes at Bush completes this week’s top 3. President Bush’s farewell visit to Iraq has become one of the favorites of 2008 in just three weeks’ time.

Do you want to see the rest of Best of 2008 list from 1 to 5? Go on then, and have a look! We’d like to hear your opinion about the virals. Have fun!

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We Wish You A Prosperous And Social 2009!

Written by Igor Beuker on January 1st, 2009 | 7 comments

We would like to wish all our loyal ViralBlog readers, spotters, newsletter and RSS subscribers a prosperous and very social 2009!!! Off course we hope to meet you here frequently in 2009…

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We are now ranked #95 in the AdAge Power150 of the best global media and marketing blogs. But due to some density, our ranking is not stable enough yet. So our 2009 goal: is to get a more stable and higher ranking in this list. And Yes You Can can help us!

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