A first wedding dance is a special, once in a lifetime moment. But a growing number of wedding couples are fed up with the awkward, dull traditional first dance. They are jumping on the latest cool and hip trend and hire dance instructors for choreographed first dances. To surprise their guests, brides and grooms are encouraged to start with a traditional slow dance, and then cutting loose into something wilder.
We’ve taken a look at a number of first wedding dances posted at YouTube and compiled the ultimate and latest top ten wedding dance video list. Check out the Top 10 chart after the jump.
Funny animals and pets are hot on the internet. Especially cats seem to be very popular! Famous cats with internet stardom, include LOLcats, Battle Cats, Nora: The Piano Playing Cat, Sleepy Cat and Nokia’s Flying Cat. The latest ‘cat celebrities’ are Stina and Mossy, Two Talking Cats, uploaded to YouTube by ‘TheCatsPyjaaaamas’ about 5 months ago. The video quickly got over 1 million views.
About 2 week ago Skariko reposted the video on YouTube. Again it got over 1 million views. For months we couldn’t understand the important conversation these two cats are having. Luckily, YouTube user klaatu42 recently has provided the English version:
Last month we announced the popular holiday viral of OfficeMax would return any time soon. The wait is over! One of the most popular holiday websites from last year has launched again! This time you can upload a headshot of yourself and three other friends or members of your family. The faces are then transplanted onto the bodies of a troupe of festively dressed dancing elves.
Last year the holiday themed viral microsite ElfYourself.com helped contribute to a 20% increase in holiday traffic to OfficeMax’s website. The microsite received over 36 million hits (according to AdAge) in just five weeks, beating Burger King’s Subservient Chicken (19 million in one year) and CareerBuilder’s Monk-E-mail (9 million in eight months) both of which are continuously held up as the benchmark for viral success.
One of my first items at ViralBlog was about the united consumers initiative MyFootballClub. Since I like soccer and web2.0 I immediately supported MyFootballclub and became a paying member.
Last week I got this e-mail from MyFootballClub announcing: MyFootballClub has agreed a deal in principle to purchase a controlling stake in Ebbsfleet United FC. Placed 9th in the Conference, Ebbsfleet United FC is one promotion from reaching the Football League for the first time in its history.
Ebbsfleet United FC’s head coach Liam Daish commented: “As a football fan, I think the MyFootballClub idea is fantastic. And as the coach, I look forward to the challenge of working with thousands of members to produce a winning team. Assistant Alan Kimble and myself are 100% committed to making this work”.
JibJab, created and founded in 1999 by Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, are famous for their hilarious political animation parody videos. You may remember the Bush/Kerry classic This Land and other great viral videos such as Good to be in DC and Second Term. The comedic web animation house and video sharing site, based in Santa Monica, recently raised another $3 million in funding.
The JibJab brothers are back with something new. They’re now offering YOU a chance to star in a JibJab Halloween movie. The videos, entitled “Night of the Living Democrats” and “Night of the Living Republicans”, are comedic spins on the horror classic, “Night of the Living Dead”. All you need to do is upload a photo, cut out your head and you’re in the movie. It’s so easy even your mom and dad can do it! Warning: the video above contains explosions, destruction, ninjas, swords, decapitations, action and adventure.
Since launching “Starring You!” in August 2007, the JibJab audience has uploaded and cut out over 1 million heads and spent 10 million minutes (nearly 20 years) using the application. CNET’s News.com has dubbed it “The Greatest Office Time-Waster in History“.
Reuters embedded a reporter in Second Life. But starting the week of November 5, CNN is venturing into Second Life, giving Second Life citizens kits that will allow them to transmit photos and information back to CNN.
This incoming information will inform newsfeeds distributed from kiosks around Second Life. The user-generated journalism is something that CNN is hoping will appeal to the users of Second Life, and something that will foster the spread of information.
Other citizen journalism initiative I like a lot is the user generated newspaper from Korea OhmyNews.
My question to our community: do you feel Second Life is dead or alive? Will you find your second wife in Second Life? More about CNN in Second Life at Mediaweek’s Digital Download.
About 4 weeks ago I wrote about Dove Onslaught, the latest viral Dove commercial launched by Unilever.
Filmmaker Rye Clifton has created a video called: ‘Talk to your daughters before Unilever does’. Rye is pointing out that one company believes it can get away with creating Onslaught for Dove with one hand while churning out spot after spot of bikini-clad, writhing women for Axe with the other.
How do you feel about Axe and Dove being under one roof? Is Dove’s message still authentic knowing about the sexy Axe babes? (Source: Beyond Madison Avenue)
Nearly 600,000 Bob Dylan fans around the world have watched the Dylan Messaging viral campaign, to promote the release of his greatest hits album DYLAN, out October 1. The Bob Dylan viral messaging campaign, launched by Sony BMG’s Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, lets fans generate personalized versions of the cue card sequence to “Subterranean Homesick Blues” made famous in the film “Don’t Look Back“, D.A. Pennebaker’s filmed chronicle of Dylan’s 1965 UK tour.
It’s an old skool user created Cillit Bang spoof: a very viral spot! The music in this VSPOT is inspired on the old Dutch ‘gabber house’ culture also know as Techno, which was also extremely popular in Germany too.
Check out this Barry Scott Cillit Bang Remix, created by JAKAZiD. But be aware, this VSPOT is not created by Reckitt Benckiser’s Cillit Bang, its a spoof. But I like it much better than the official Reckitt TV commercials.
Reckitt Benckiser’s Cillit Bang team gave this statement: “the Barry Scott character has appeared in a number of spoof websites and weblogs, created by people unconnected to the Reckitt Benckiser brand”.
