Archive for January, 2010

Haiti Continues To Be A Popular Topic Online

Written by Pernille Hegnsholt on January 31st, 2010 | 1 comment

This is the last day of this week and the last day of this month and I thought I would sum up which topics have been generating the most tweets this past week.

If you want to find out what is hot on the web at the moment, Twitter is the perfect tool. With millions of tweets crossing its servers and constantly updated trending topics, it’s easy to find out what’s happening right now.
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Dreaming In Mono By McDonalds

Written by Laurens Bianchi on January 30th, 2010 | 2 comments

McDonald recently launched “Dreaming in Mono”, a 60 minute satire for television broadcast over seven episodes on four television networks in the Nordic region, and online at Dreaminginmono.com

The transmedia story of Dreaming in Mono brings to life the rivalries and stereotypes of the Danes, Finns, Norwegians and Swedes in the story of an unlikely group of Nordic people who come together to beat an old ski record, only on one ski: a monoski.
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Viral Friday: Dancing Inmates – This Is It

Written by Niels Bellaar on January 29th, 2010 | no comments

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.
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This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Dancing Inmates – Michael Jackson’s This Is It. Maybe you remember the viral with the Filipino inmates performing Michael Jackson’s Thriller in 2007? They’re back. The runner up spot is for Apple iPad Spoofs. Many have been looking forward to Apple’s tablet and not surprisingly the iPad already has been spoofed. Walmart Clown Commercial completes this week’s top 3. At the Sunday night NFL championship game, Walmart aired the “Clown Commercial”.

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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Apple iPad Spoofs

Written by Marc Metekohy on January 28th, 2010 | 7 comments

By now gadget lovers and Apple fans all around the world all have seen Steve Jobs’ Keynote showing Apple’s latest and much anticipated development, the Apple iPad. Already the iPad has been received with positivity and negativity and already some spoofs.

Apple iPad

Image via ObamaPacman

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SoDA 2010 Digital Marketing Outlook

Written by Niels Bellaar on January 27th, 2010 | no comments

The Society of Digital Agencies (SoDA), the worldwide voice of digital marketing professionals with a mission to advance the industry through best practices, education, and advocacy, published its 2010 Digital Marketing Outlook.

For the report SoDA conducted in excess of a thousand executives from major global brands, traditional and digital agencies, vendor and service providers that operate in the digital space as well as freelance and independent digital practitioners. According Richard Lent, Chairman of SoDA’s Board, “the survey results confirmed the obvious: many believe the future of Digital Marketing is exceptionally bright.

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“Ban Twitter” Bandwagon Rolls On

Written by Daan Jansonius on January 26th, 2010 | 5 comments

Twitter and professional sports. On recent evidence it seems as good a combination as fish fingers and whipped cream.

And I’m not talking about the blatantly obvious mismatch of a website heavily adopted by the online elite and an activity that would require one to actually step outside their bedroom/parent’s basement (choose as appropriate).

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2010 Youth Trends Reports

Written by Marc Metekohy on January 25th, 2010 | 4 comments

Graham Brown, from WhatYouthThink.com, is an expert on Youth Trends. He has collected the most important Youth Trends and has created a 3-part presentation with trends such as Co-shopping, Side-loading, Blackberry Breakout, The Attention Economy, The End of the Pepsi Generation, Authenticity, Brand Democracy. Read and learn.

Part 1

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Puma – The Games We Play

Written by Marc Metekohy on January 24th, 2010 | 1 comment

Puma has just launched their Sping/Summer 2010 collection and have done so with a nice ingenious series of videos dedicated to the sports Puma wants to focus on. Golf, Running, Motorsports and Fitness. For everyone who is looking to upgrade their look on the links this year, here’s a preview of the new line — featuring Rickie Fowler.

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Edison Chen Stars In RenRen Internet Ad

Written by Paul van Veenendaal on January 23rd, 2010 | 1 comment

Popular Chinese social network RenRen (人人网) has remixed Chinese Canadian film actor and fallen pop icon Edison Chen (陈冠希) into their internet commercial.

Edison Chen in RenRen commercial. Watch this video on YouTube

Edison Chen, a leading actor in Hong Kong appearing in films such as Infernal Affairs (later re-made as The Departed) and The Dark Knight, shocked the Asian world in 2008, when a total of approximately 1,300 explicit photographs with some of the biggest movie and recording stars in Hong Kong and the Chinese world were distributed to Chinese language websites, forums and chatrooms.

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Viral Friday: Happiness Machine

Written by Niels Bellaar on January 22nd, 2010 | 4 comments

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.
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This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Coca-Cola: Happiness Machine. To spread their Happiness message Coca-Cola put a special vending machine in the middle of a college campus. The runner up spot is for adidas Originals: Star Wars Collection. This week adidas launched a new compelling video which is a real joy for David Beckham lovers, Snoop Doggy Dogsters, and mainly for the adidas brand fans and Star Wars diehards. Nexus One: Ninja’s Unboxing completes this week’s top 3. Google released this video of a Nexus One being unboxed. By ninja’s.

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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