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 Google Goggles. Google has come out with an implementation of image recognition and augmented reality technology for Android. The runner up spot is for This Year In Auto-Tune 2009. Check out the wackiest celebrity moments of 2009 in auto-tune. Real Time Search completes this week’s top 3. Besides the new search option Google Goggles, Google has shared its new concept for real-time search as well.
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Picture this: you are at the altar, just said “Yes, I do” to your newly wed, when he takes out his phone and updates his Facebook and Twitter status. That is exactly what Dana Hanna did and by doing so he created a viral outburst.
Although the video was uploaded on the 22nd of November, the video didn’t start spreading like crazy since the beginning of this month.
It’s the time again where agencies and their clients are developing entertaining and innovative Christmas wishes again. It seems that agencies and brands are releasing their wishes earlier each year. We already posted about the new Elfyourself, but you should defenitely see the other Christmas wishes in this posting as well.
Recent Google Maps images of Sydney’s popular Bondi Beach show a massive school of unidentified sharks cruising just meters away from swimmers. Visit Australian Coastal Watch and zoom in to take a closer look at the sharks. Pretty amazing, but scary stuff…
Sorry, that shark bite was not real. It’s a simple, clever but smart promo for Shark Week by Discovery Channel. The campaign was created by agency Jack Watts Currie, in Sydney.
Some more interesting information about the campaign?
Today the two-week United Nations Climate Change conference officially kicked off in Copenhagen this morning. The conference is expected to attract 15,000 delegates, activists and journalists from around the globe. Many sceptics wonder if the conference will actually lead to solid agreements which benefit our climate. Climate Interactive made this thermometer to indicate the influence of agreements made these 2 coming weeks and what it would do to the global temperature.
Consumer’s don’t share your message when the intend of the video is all about selling. However, they’re happy to spread a video that delivers entertainment, unique footage and a fair amount of quality. National Geographic understands these values like no other. The proof? A video with amazing footage gone viral by generating over 1.5 million views in 2 weeks.
With over 1.400 videos uploaded in the last 3,5 years, National Geographic must have gained a great amount of knowledge about online videos. Continue reading for more insights on National Geographic’s use of online video.
What to do with great content? Keep it in the toilet for years, before you seed it? It happened with the first edition of Charles Darwin’s seminal On the Origin of Species. It will be sold this week after it was found in a family’s toilet in southern Britain, an auction house said a week ago.
The book, which was first printed in 1859, was bought by a family for just a few shillings in a shop about 40 years ago, Christie’s auction house said. The family has since kept the work on a bookcase in the guest lavatory at their home in the Oxford area, it said.
The book just went go under the hammer in London, last week, to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the publication of the father of the theory of evolution’s famous work. The book, about 1,250 copies of which were first printed, is expected to fetch 99,000 US dollars.
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 Pink Glove Dance. Promoting awareness of breast cancer is a good thing, this week you’ll see hospital staff dancing with rubber gloves. The runner up spot is for Lady Gaga: Bad Romance Parody. Lady Gaga is extremely hot this week. Video charts are flushed with parodies of her Bad Romance video (her original video got almost 30 million views in three weeks). Lego Matrix Trinity Help completes this week’s top 3. It takes about 440 hours to make, but then you have a splendid piece of video material of 44 seconds…
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Once again it is that time a year where people get nominated for the man, the agency, the movie, the song and so on.. all of the year of 2009. Korea’s LG did a global survey on who people would vote for as their hero. A stunning 37.6% states Obama is their 2009 hero, Dalai Lama is the runner up with 23,8% of the votes.
This video shows some great examples of the heroes out there. Who is your hero of 2009?
With the introduction of technologies such as the mobile phone came new ways for teens to communicate. And new ways to gossip. Therefore, LG has launched a campaign in for tweens and teens to raises awareness about mobile phone misuse.
The campaign “Give it a ponder” is based on the outcomes of LG research and portrays witty scenarios to encourage teens to ‘ponder’ before texting and consider the real consequences of their actions.
