We’re proud to announce that ViralBlog is nominated for the third-annual Top 10 Social Media Blogs Contest hosted by Social Media Examiner.
After 4,5 years of sharing viral ideas and social trends, our weekly Viral Friday and already 4 years in a row AdAge Power150 ranked, it’s great being aknowledged by another inspiring and influential blog: The Social Media Examiner.
The crazyness all started with a journalist in the UK, who thought he could buy a football club just with crowd funding. And some football minded marketers responded by sharing their love for virals and social media…
Airline KLM has the DNA, drive for innovation and disruption to qualify as social business. They go beyond campaigns, claim activities, and add relevancy and pieces of value to the lives of individual travelers. Will KLM launch Social Seating in 2012?
In a nutshell; social seating will enable KLM passengers to match their neighbor on their upcoming flight. How does that work?
During the online check-in process flyers can pick a seat next to somebody they might know from Facebook or LinkedIn. It could fuel speed dating on short flights, or relevant business meeting with peers during long flights…
Alibaba Group, China’s largest e-commerce company, is beta-testing a new social-networking-product called Laiwang, as the firm expands outside e-commerce to seek other revenue streams.
Alibaba Group, who acquired Yahoo China in 2005, is mainly known for Alibaba.com, which is a marketplace for buyers and manufacturers with products like ‘Android tablets below 100 dollar, big red tourist buses and even software to start your own social network. Laiwang is not their first attempt for trying to enter the world of social networks…
Facebook has acquired location sharing service Gowalla for an undisclosed sum, according to a source close to Gowalla, CNNMoney stated on 2 December. Facebook declined to comment on the deal, but we think the battle for SoLoMo between Facebook and Google has really started…
Most of Gowalla’s employees, including founder Josh Williams, would move to Facebook’s offices in Palo Alto.
There the team will work on Facebook’s Timeline feature, which launched at this year’s F8 conference and is gradually rolling out to Facebook’s 800 million members.
We have been talking about Facebook’s opportunities to go beyond their credits. They might become a global exchange for real money AKA a social bank. Now rumors say Facebook might support online gambling companies. Or even one step deeper?
So what’s the buzz about? And what is social betting…
Playboy in Argentina came up with some interesting marketing for its Mariana Diarco issue: A Virtual Striptease, where visitors can sing like a rock star using their computer’s microphone, to which Diarco responds in true groupie fashion by revealing some nices photos .
None of the guys in the demo video seem to be singing that well but you can see how this interactive game would entice the male audience to start singing.
Sagres is Portugal’s #1 beer brand. They launched an amazing cool idea: the world’s first website made out of chocolate. Why should a beer brand want a chocolate website? Watch the baking off…
The project was run by by Grand Union, a full service international digital agency.
If sharing is caring, we hope that below video is shared among many CMOs and their agencies. A better understanding for creativity vs. deadlines might even fuel mutual beneficial relationships between brands and agencies…
To prove to their deadline-setting clients that creativity takes time, Hungarian ad agency Café Creative visited some schoolchildren and asked them to perform two tasks: Complete a drawing in 10 seconds, and then complete the same drawing in 10 minutes.
Interesting signals coming from a Venezuelan blog, where it states that the gossips around Google’s music service are pretty much getting alive. What could this mean for the quite successful services like iTunes or Spotify?
Without speculating too much on these rumors, the blog also uploaded some very interesting screens from the interface. Which make these more plausible as well.
The advertising industry keeps re-inventing itself over and over again. And advertising agencies will keep coining new buzz words and trends. Don’t ask us why, but recently we have seen the world’s first Catvertising agency…
To stay on top of the ever-changing advertising landscape, john st. has opened the world’s first cat video division. With production, filming and seeding all in-house. Ask yourself, what can cat videos do for your business?
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