We, at ViralBlog, are into social media. We not only hear, read and talk about what is going on, what works and what doesn’t; we also practise it professionally. And we notice that there is a need for marketers to know what us social media geeks are all about.
So, if you are a marketer (or if you happen to know one and want to help him/her) continue reading on these seven social media trends for brands.
Shane Dawson thought: “What Lady Gaga can do, I can do better” and created a spoof of her newest video “Telephone”.
Lady Gaga got a lot of views for her video but I must say I’m amazed by the number of views Dawson already acquired: 1.289.722 in just 2 days.
Hubbies Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore have already proven to be social media savvy and now they are using social media to gain awareness for child slavery.
Demi and Ashton launched their The DNA Foundation on January 25, 2010 and their aim is to eliminate child slavery, world wide. In an exclusive interview with Mashable, the famous Hollywood couple explains how they want to raise awareness about child slavery in Haiti now. And how they want to achieve just that.
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 Chatroulette Piano Ode To Merton. Last week we were amazed to see Merton’s Chatroulette Piano Improv. Now Ben Folds ‘does a Merton’ performing live for an audience. The runner up spot is for Content-Aware Fill Sneak Peek. Last Tuesday Adobe uploaded a sneak peek of the new “content-aware fill” Photoshop feature, and it’s great! The Predators Trailer completes this week’s top 3.This summer a new part in the science fiction horror film franchise Predator series will be launched, aptly called Predators.
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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Avatar has inspired many people to create spoofs videos. With the courtesy of Australian TV show Hungry Beast, we saw this Avatar 2 mash-up trailer. The mash-up video mixes a lot of influential movies and its pretty weird…
The trailer has shown over 600,000 views since 4 March 2010, so the creators must have done their homework in a smart way.
Recent study from Chadwick Martin Bailey en iModerate Research Technologies shows that over 50% of Facebook fans and Twitter followers say they are more likely to buy, recommend than before they were engaged.
You are BMW and introducing your new Sierra 1000RR motorbike, that goes from zero to 100km/h in just 2.9 seconds, how would you approach it? Right, you turn the oldest trick in the world into a new experiment. Fake or real? Don’t try this at home…
Above video reached over 1,000,000 clip views within one week. How about massive reach and engagement at hardly any costs per contact? Can we call that earned media? The ingredients needed? A brand like BMW: right mentality and DNA. Create a smart but simple online video. Add some clever natural seeding and outreach.
Was it BMW that was successful before with viral video, introducing its new 1 series car in the start of 2008? Did you happen to see that BMW’s Rampenfest?
Last time I talked about Formula 1 racing teams and their lack of smart social media marketing attempts within their marketing strategies. But we need to show you the bright side as well and show you how Virgin Racing is using digital and social marketing to revitalize its racing team and brand…
We all know that not too many brands do their utmost to activate their sport sponsorships with smart digital and social media marketing strategies and programs. We seem to think that our brand name on a shirt, billboard along the pitch and some airtime accompanied by VIP tickets will do the job?
Well with digital and social media Virgin Racing seams to make serious attempts to revitalize its brand. For the first time a Formula 1 racing team has found the spirit to develop a smart social media marketing strategy that will more effectively engage with fans.
Yes We Can. President Obama won a historic victory in the struggle for health care reform Sunday as the House of Representatives passed a sweeping health care bill overhauling the American medical system.
The bill passed in a 219-212 vote after more than a year of bitter partisan debate. All 178 Republicans opposed it, along with 34 Democrats. Again social media marketing was an important part of Obama’s strategy, as we have shown you before in this Obama social media marketing case study.
The sad thing about this health care bill and the good thing about Obama’s persistence: finally in 2010, the US is no longer a third world country; until this week 1 out of 7 people in the US had no health insurance.
In November 2009 I was guest speaker on TV show France 24 Live. The TV debate was about 1 year Obama. I tried to explain to the other debaters that Obama’s approach was not a success due to his Facebook or Twitter page, but that he owned the mentality and DNA to listen to his people.
The Formula 1 industry is all about technology, innovation, speed, data and intel. So why are the Formula 1 teams around the globe still so slow in embracing the power of social media marketing?
Graph from NMA showing the low number of engaged Formula 1 fans
But we have good news for Formula 1 fans around the globe. The Formula 1 teams are finally turning to digital and social media, in an attempt to revitalize their sport’s reputation towards the 2010 season.
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