It’s true. ViralBlog loves Ford approach in social media. This isn’t the first post dedicated to Ford’s social strategy and sure won’t be the last if they continue on their path like they do now. Recently, Scott Monty (head of social media for Ford Motor Company) gave a talk on social media marketing at OMMA Global New York.
Read on to view the slides and our comments on this inspirational slidedeck.
Cadbury is one of our favourite brands, we have written about them exentisively and we are happy to announce they are back with another very cool ad campaign!
This tim they have teamed up with Zingollo ft Tinny to create a track and video entirely dedicated to African nation Ghana. The track can be downloaded from i-Tunes, with all proceeds going to CARE.
An interesting new campaign to raise awareness on breast cancer, to put it mildly. The Rethink Breast Cancer Initiative just launched a little pool-side music-video appreciation of one white-bikini-clad woman’s assets. Interesting since it seems to both attract and engage the male audience as well. Even with a Booby Ball.
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month so why not get started early?
In 2007 , Karl Fisch, Scott McLeod, and Jeff Brenman turned their ‘Shift Happens’ presentation into video and uploaded it to YouTube under the name ‘Did You Know 2.0′. This marked the start of a series of videos visualizing data. The next video, with a Fat Boy Slim soundtrack, was an instant YouTube hit, gaining over 6.5 millions views.
And now, there is ‘Did You Know 4.0′
FIFA, the computer football game since 1993, is about to release its 2010 version. EA Sports called in Wieden + Kennedy Amsterdam to make this anthem spot, which debuts this weekend during the Manchester City v Manchester United match.
In the video you’ll see famed footballers such as Wayne Rooney, Karim Benzema, Xavi, Theo Walcott, Tim Cahill and Bastian Schweinsteiger amongst others as they group up with fans across the globe.
“Can a bunch of bees make a laptop fly?” That’s is the question in the description that comes with a video which seems to be a viral video attempt of Lenovo for their Thinkpad Laptop series. The question that we ask: “Can a bunch of bees make a video go viral?”
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Kanye West Interrupts. Kanye West made quite an appearance this week by causing havoc and distress at the MTV VMA Awards. The runner up spot is for Good News – Windows 7 Commercial. With the release of Windows 7 only a few weeks away, Microsoft launched its first advertisement for the new operating system. Oprah Flashmob completes this week’s top 3. Oprah Winfrey was in for a surprise when the Black Eyed Peas performed for her 24th ‘Oprah’ season kick-off party.
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!
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Sports apparel brand, New Balance, just launched a great campaign for the New Balance’s 574 Clips line. A combination of limited edition shoes and limited edition Polaroids. Match them on the site and claim your fame.
A very unique campaign created for this cool sports brand.
One of my personal favourite websites is ReadWriteWeb.com. Last week Richard MacManus, founder and editor of ReadWriteWeb created several posts on what he believes are the top 5 web trends of 2009. These were 5 really well written posts on different subjects. Below you find a compilation of these 5 web trends.
More on these 5 web trends of 2009 after the jump.
Campbell-Ewald, a top 25 advertising agency in the US, has just revamped their website. But instead of having a team of front- and back-end designers and developers having to build the complete website Campbell-Ewald decided to frame existing content and use it as their website.
From Facebook, to Wikipedia to Flickr. They must have thought: why should I build it when others already have done it for me?!
A great example of utilizing what’s already out there, build by others, and use it to your and their advantage.
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