Archive for October, 2009
Written by Igor Beuker on October 13th, 2009 |
This request is just within the boundaries of the WOMMA code of ethics, since we would like you to vote, but we are not offering you a bribe. Our ViralBlog is nominated for Most Popular Blog at the Dutch Bloggies 2009- the annual election for the best weblog originated in the Netherlands. There are over 300 nominees in our category so we really need your vote, so Yes We Can?!
How can you vote for ViralBlog? Just visit Dutch Bloggies here. Next register with your e-mail, get the link, click and vote ViralBlog. That’s all folks.
It will only cost you 30 seconds. It will make us look very proud at the Award Show Night. Now we are so close, we would like to win. And you can make it happen. Thanks!
If you need us to influence your purchase decision even more: we are ranked #52 in the AdAge Power150, we’ve won the Chapeau Blog Awards 2009, and our team will be (even) more good looking next week, just check the Bio’s of our new bloggers next week…
Written by Pernille Hegnsholt on October 12th, 2009 |
2010 ANDY Awards is taking a social media approach and give power to the people. Social media is a big trend right now, so why don’t let the audience decide who’s going to judge the work they have created themselves.
Read more about why and how the ANDY Awards decided to let the audience pig their own jury and go to the website and vote for your favorite.
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Written by Matthijs Roumen on October 11th, 2009 |
In September, Volkswagen launched www.rolighetsteorin.se, an creative initiative to test if fun could change the behavior of people. The campaign has become a huge success in the last couple of days with a tremendous amount of views for the videos that Volkswagen subtly seed with this campaign.
Read on for the full statistics on the campaign and my personal view on this already strong marketing case in social media.
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Written by Marc Metekohy on October 10th, 2009 |
The Today Show, aired on NBC, averages on 5 million viewers every morning of the week. The hugely popular morning show now has decided to go beyond their show and website and target perhaps their biggest target audience; Moms.
As Mommy bloggers steadily grow in ranks, the segment is beginning to wield more influence in both the blogosphere and on the web as a whole. And it looks like NBC is waking up to the potential power of this audience, hence the introduction of TodayMoms.com.
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Written by Niels Bellaar on October 9th, 2009 |
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 week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Anne Frank Video. On 30 September The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam launched their official YouTube channel containing very exclusive content. The runner up spot is for 2012 – Exclusive Scene. Roland ‘disaster’ Emmerich’s latest epic adventure is about the to be launched. We are all going to die and here’s an exclusive scene from the movie. What Is Google Wave? completes this week’s top 3. Google’s attempt to re-invent a modernized version of email, Google Wave, launched last week. But what is Google Wave?
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!
Get our ViralBlog asset: the Viral Friday Widget! By default the widget shows you the latest Viral Friday, but it’ll also show you the seven most recent postings on ViralBlog.
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Written by Daan Jansonius on October 7th, 2009 |
Whenever something reaches the red alert stage of the hype cycle there will be plenty of people jumping on the bandwagon to try and make a quick buck. Social media is no different and we now have the internet and Twitter in particular riddled with Social Media Gurus/Experts/Honchos….well, you get the point.
Jennifer Leggio spoke out against the snake oil salesmen and asked the bonafide people within the industry to step forward. The video above is a satire intended to mock the clueless among us.
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Written by Mireille Hakkenberg on October 7th, 2009 |
Ever tried to show your pictures still on your camera to a group of people? Six people squeezed behind an, if your lucky, 3.0 inch LCD screen. All trying to get a glimpse of your photos. Not pretty, nor pleasant. To simplify the sharing of your photos, Nikon introduced the world’s first projector camera. That’s right: a camera with a built-in projector.
To gain awareness for this new camera, Nikon called in the help of director Matt Uhry, who previously directed music videos for The Foo Fighters, The Strokes and Tears for Fears. The video illustrates an exciting house party, social interactions and a contagious vibe. All together creating the perfect setting for instantly sharing photos with your camera.
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Written by Niels Bellaar on October 6th, 2009 |
At the end of July the Dutch collecting society for composers and music publishers, Buma/Stemra, announced plans to let bloggers pay for embedded audio streams on their blogs, starting from 2010. These streams include embedded YouTube music videos.
Last week the society announced the prices (.pdf) for embedding videos, which are rather shocking:
- 6 embedded files € 130 / year
- 12 embedded files € 260 / year
- 30 embedded files € 650 / year
- 31 and more embedded files € 650 x (number blocks of 30 files) / year
To me, Buma/Stemra’s plans are lacking meaning and sense.
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Written by Laurens Bianchi on October 5th, 2009 |
The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam has recently launched an official Youtube channel. On behalf of the release a video has been published which contains existing and new images about Anne Frank which were captured only a year before Anne and her family were forced into hiding. After 2 weeks the video resulted in over 2 million views.
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Written by Daan Jansonius on October 4th, 2009 |
For anyone who has been living in a cave the last 18 months or so, a hashtag is used to give context or meaning to a tweet. And a tweet is a 140 character long post on Twitter, but I’m sure you knew that already 
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