Some time ago we wrote about the Powermat, a product to wireless charge your gadgets. Our sister agency SocialMedia8 asked people to test and review the Powermat.
The “Home & Office” version of the Powermat
Vernon reviewed the Powermat, and in return we offered him ViralBlog as a platform to share his opinions on the Powermat. Continue reading for his review.
Heineken launched their second global responsible drinking campaign ‘KnowTheSigns’ this week. With their tag line ‘Enjoy Heineken Responsibly‘ they would like to encourage young people to enjoy a good night out, but be aware of the signs people start to show when they’ve had one too many to drink.
Ameriquest Mortgage is one of the US leading wholesale lenders. It advertised widely on television, had blimps that flew over football and baseball stadiums, and sponsored the Rolling Stones (2005 US tour) and NASCAR drivers. Its ad slogan is “proud sponsor of the American dream.” Have you seen the 5 online commercials in their campaign: Don’t Judge Too Quickly?
It looks like a string of online commercials, or webisode. And I know their are not very new, but I felt you should be able to see them here. Maybe just to prove (again) that even mortgage companies can bring relevant online content, wrapped in a very pleasant and entertaining way.
What video out of the above 5 did you like most? And if you do happen to bump into great new viral commercials, you are invited to share them with us…
Car accidents are already a bad experience for people, but when your insurance does not pay out this is even worse. Dutch car insurance VrijVerzekerd wanted to illustrate their unique selling point that they repay the purchase price of your car in case of an accident and created an interactive campaign combining a free iPhone game and a viral video.
Players can build an endless racing track by connecting their iPhones via Bluetooth and driving a car from iPhone to iPhone.
Officially announced Monday, but the Elf Yourself team were so kind to give you, our ViralBlog readers, a first look at the new Elf Yourself commercial. Hundreds of Elf Yourself elves came out of the subway and a double-decker bus in New York on November 3rd and took over Union Square and started dancing in their green tunic, striped pants and an elf hat on. Their message: Elf Yourself!
Elf Yourself elves invade Union Square
Read more about Elf Yourself? See “Will Elf Yourself Return in 2009? YES!” (a retrospective) and “Elf Yourself 2009 is Live!” (focus on 2009 campaign). Read more about Flash mobs? Check out the article “Using A Creative Flashmob As A Viral Element” by Matthijs Roumen or do a ViralBlog search or YouTube search.
A question that each marketer has, when dealing with Social Media Marketing is what the ROI of Social Media can be. Many marketers are already convinced of the power of social media, but now want to know ‘how’ to measure the ROI in Social Media as well. This video from Socialnomics is a showcases of several Social Media ROI examples along with other effective Social Media Strategies.
The video doesn’t show exactly “how” to measure the ROI in Social Media, but is great for you marketers out there who believe that Social Media is just a ‘nice to have’.
See some examples and data which could be very interesting to you…
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 Elizabeth Lambert. Fist throwing football player Elizabeth Lambert is the number 1 of Viral Friday’s top 5. The different videos showing her mean actions towards the opponent players all add up to more than 10,2 million views. The runner up spot is for Andre Iguodala Trick Shot. Trick shot videos are a guarantee for lots of views and comments. And although we have seen many of these videos, they’re always interesting to watch and see if you can figure out if it’s real or fake. Remi Gaillard: Tarzan completes this week’s top 3. We have seen him before in Viral Friday: the French Remi Gaillard, professional prankster.
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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Even Balloon Boy and JK Wedding Dance were not as popular as this video about New Mexico University football player Elizabeth Lambert.
The video shows Lambert being extremely unsports(wo)manlike to her opponents.
This video is made by the Swedish broadband Com Hem AB and it is celebrating some of the best YouTube videos over the years.
ViralTracker offered to give some insights on this viral. See more information after the jump.
About a week ago, I wrote an article about the history of Elf Yourself and asked the question: Will Elf Yourself return in 2009 again? On the OfficeMax site, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube and Facebook all kind of hints appeared of a possible return. And 12 hours ago, 12 o’clock midnight US time, Elf Yourself 4.0 is live again! Just like last year OfficeMax teamed up with JibJab.
So what’s new this year? There are two new elf dances! In addition to “Disco Elves”, “Country Elves”, and “Elf Classic”, you can choose to model your creation off the “Hip-Hop Elves” or “Singing Elves” dances. The “Charleston Elves” won’t be coming back this year.
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