Oscars iPad Commercial

Written by Pernille Hegnsholt on March 8th, 2010 | 3 comments

The first iPad television commercial went live during last nights Oscars.

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PUMA’s Valentines Day Viral

Written by Daan Jansonius on February 10th, 2010 | 4 comments

It’s February and all you love birds out there know what that means – yup, Valentines Day is coming soon! Not being the most romantically inclined person it’s a day like any other to me.

But from a marketing point of view it is always interesting to keep an eye out to see what the big brands are doing. And this year PUMA have come up trumps with their Hardchorus campaign.

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Updated: 2 New Viral Videos SpinAwards 2010

Written by Laurens Bianchi on February 5th, 2010 | 3 comments

Viralblog released the announcement of The SpinAwards, the Dutch awards for creativity in digital media 2 weeks ago, with two great viral videos. The organization offered us two additional virals, again parodies of a foreign ‘creative’.

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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.

Image via ObamaPacman

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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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Dutch SpinAwards Announced With Viral Videos

Written by Laurens Bianchi on January 21st, 2010 | 1 comment

A great creative case from Liechtenstein. Or is it? And haven’t we seen that idea somewhere before? The SpinAwards, the Dutch awards for creativity in digital media,is launching this year’s theme ‘Made in Holland’ with four great viral films. The creators gave ViralBlog the scoop for the first 2 videos, which you can see here!

Each film parodies a foreign ‘creative’, perfectly played by Dutch stand up comedian Horace Cohen. The creators of the videos got inspired by one of the recent winning cases at the SpinAwards.

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Ninja’s Unboxing Google Nexus Video

Written by Laurens Bianchi on January 19th, 2010 | 3 comments

Google has released a video of a Nexus One being unboxed. After all, when it comes to “unboxing”, ninjas know how to handle things, at least that what’s the description tells us. Although Samsung already made a great viral regarding  unboxing videos back in 2008, which resulted in millions of views, we really like this one as well.

The video is a stop motion video and we find it pretty self explanatory.
You can see it here:
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Harbin Beer Viral: Fan-Made Or Viral Campaign?

Written by Paul van Veenendaal on January 3rd, 2010 | 4 comments

Harbin beer (哈尔滨啤酒) is one of the popular beers along Tsingtao Beer (青島啤酒), Yanjing Beer (燕京啤酒) and Zhujiang beer (珠江啤酒) in China. The beer company is founded in 1900 by the Russian national Ulubulevskij in the city of Harbin, and is now part of beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev. Harbin is nicknamed “Ice City” cause of its long cold winter and its beautiful display of ice sculptures in December and January.

Harbin beer ice sculpture. Watch this video on YouTube.

On December 24 the above video, entitled “零下34度！年终巨献！惊爆你的眼球……!” was uploaded to the popular Chinese video sharing site Youku (优酷网). In the clip four Chinese citizens create an ice sculpture of Harbin’s Saint Sophia Cathedral by pouring Harbin beer on a square at a temperature of 34 degrees below zero or minus 29 Fahrenheit.

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Obama, Jack Bauer & NORAD Viral Xmas Hits

Written by Paul van Veenendaal on December 29th, 2009 | 5 comments

Organizing For America, Rebel Virals and NORADsanta.org are this years viral holiday winners. And looking at JibJab’s preliminary numbers on TechCrunch, also Elf Yourself can be added to that list.

Organizing For America: Barack Obama
Organizing For America (OFA), the successor organization to ‘Obama for America’, has created a personalized video card featuring President Barack Obama, as well as ordinary Democrats from around the country, thanking supporters for their dedication.

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Dramatic Chipmunk Breaks Out

Written by Laurens Bianchi on December 21st, 2009 | 1 comment

Dramatic Chipmunk is one of the most well know viral videos receiving tens of millions of views since the release in 2007. Despite the title, the five-second video actually features a prairie dog, who’s turning its head while the camera zooms in and dramatic music from the Frankenstein film plays on the background.

Curious what really happened with the chipmunk that day in the studio?
This video will show you more!

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