Next to the Apple’s iPhone and Google’s G1 phone, Dell is about to enter the smartphone market as well with the Dell Mini 3. It could be a serious attack to the smartphone market, especially in the Chinese and Brazilian market. Moreover because Dell seems to understand its community.
After nearly 1,000 submissions, 20 amazing finalists, and more than 3 million views, Organizing for America supporters and a panel of experts have picked the winner of the OFA Health Reform Video Challenge. Barack Obama keeps doing social marketing in a way that 99% of all CMO’s still not seem to understand…
If you want to learn how Obama’s team asked for help to put the final ad on the air, I suggest you visit this part of his site.
“Brilliant, innovative, smart yet simple, genius, outside the box, awesome, excellent, unconventional” are just some of the terms used in many blog postings and headlines to describe the new IKEA Facebook campaign, designed by Swedish agency Forsman & Bodenfors, to promote the opening of its new IKEA store in Mälmo.
IKEA’s showcase video, viewed 115,000 times on YouTube since November 18
Without breaking the bank on exorbitant budgets the agency managed to create a ripple effect of buzz and engagement, that would not spread just throughout Sweden, but throughout Europe and beyond.
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 The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody. Their ode to Freddy Mercury reached one million viewers the same day it was uploaded and went viral around the world in just two days. The runner up spot is for What Is Google Chrome OS?. Google released the source code to Chrome OS accompanied by a series of videos explaining the operating system. World Of Warcraft: Mr. T Commercial completes this week’s top 3. Yet another World of Warcraft commercial starring Mr. T gets WoW fans crazy for the Mohawk Grenade.
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The Muppets have made a comeback with Bohemian Rhapsody, the biggest hit from the band Queen. This did not go by unnoticed: more than 3 million people have seen the video within a couple of days.
Although the lyrics have been slightly altered, the similarities with the original Queen video are pretty clear.
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Today eMarketer released data from the BtoB Magazine 2010 Outlook: Marketing Priorities and Plans survey. In short, things are looking pretty rosy for anyone involved in social media and online video. If you’re into banners you may want to look the other way.
Don’t say I didn’t warn you! Join us after the jump for more….
One of the most tweeted subjects so far this week is Adam Lambert and his performance on this Sundays American Music Awards, where Lambert surprises everyone. Have a look and see for yourself.
Adam Lambert was the runner-up of the season eight of American Idol and with his performance of his first single “For Your Entertainment” he has been lighting up Twitter accounts and gossip blogs since Sunday.
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There is virtually noone in the industrialized world who has not been to McDonald’s at least once in his or her lifetime. The global market leader on fast food has recently shared its view on Social Media Marketing Strategy and what it means for McDonald’s and how they want to become market leader in this area as well.
Heather Oldani, U.S. Communications Director at McDonald’s, has shared McDonald’s Social Media Marketing Strategy and is a must-read for CMO’s.
Google is taking Chrome OS to the cloud. Five months after the announcement of Chrome, Google now released the source codes to the operating system. At the same time, the company released a series of videos explaining Chrome OS.
Google claims that Chrome is fast, simple and safe and all necessary applications can be found on the web.
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 Drunk Pole Dancing Gone Wrong. Heineken scores a big hit this week with a viral for their global responsible drinking campaign Know The Signs. The runner up spot is for Face-Off With A Deadly Predator. Paul Nicklen is a photographer for National Geographic who came face-to-face with one of Antarctica’s most vicious predators. Pigeon: Impossible completes this week’s top 3. After nearly 5 years, writer and director Lucas Martell is finally done with this first attempt at animation.
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