Archive for the ‘Viral Friday’ Category
Written by Niels Bellaar on May 23rd, 2008 |
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Levi Strauss & Co with Super Chill Monkey Does Hollywood. Two weeks ago Levi Strauss & Co scored a Viral Friday #1 position with “Guys Backflip into Jeans”. Last week the successor of this viral launched, scoring the #1 position once again. The runner up spot is for Drench Spring Water ft. Brains from Thunderbirds. Drench, a spring water brand, let’s Brains, Thunderbirds’ bespectacled scientific genius, dance to 1990s club hit Rhythm is a Dancer. Giant LEGO Boulder completes this week’s top 3. To promote the LEGO Indiana Jones game Electronic Arts and LEGO developed the “Giant LEGO Boulder” viral.
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Written by Niels Bellaar on May 16th, 2008 |
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to IBeatYou.com with Jessica Alba Staring Contest. After her lipsync adventure for online competition site IBeatYou, owned by her fiancé Cash Warren, Jessica now takes on another challenge. The runner up spot is for Apple Mac Music Video. 23-year-old filmmaker Dennis Liu, producer at BBDO New York, created this very creative clip for indie/pop/alternative musical duo The Bird and the Bee from Los Angeles. MUTO completes this week’s top 3. In his latest video Italian street artist Blu combines street art and stop motion.
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Written by Niels Bellaar on May 9th, 2008 |
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Guys Backflip into Jeans. Last year Ray-Ban’s viral “Guy catches glasses with face” became a huge internet success. Now we see a very similar video for Levi’s Jeans (according to Gawker). The runner up spot is for Humanitainment.com with The Empire Strikes Barack. Two weeks ago Humanitainment.com scored a Viral Friday top 3 ranking with their YouTube hit “Baracky: The Movie”, and now they do it again with “The Empire Strikes Barack”. Shark Surfer completes this week’s top 3. In the video, presumably for sun glasses brand Notorious, we see a surfer going out surfing with a white shark.
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Written by Niels Bellaar on May 2nd, 2008 |
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Love China. Chinese internet users en masse added “Love China” or “(L) China” to their MSN chat names as a patriotic gesture. The runner up spot is for Britain’s Got Talent: Michael Jackson. Opera singer Paul Potts became an internet meme thanks to Britain’s Got Talent and YouTube, will Michael Jackson imitator Suleman Mirza follow in his footsteps? Shortsbus.com completes this week’s top 3 with Trapped in an Elevator with Diarrhea. A funny parody to last week’s #1 position “Trapped in an Elevator for 41 Hours”.
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Written by Niels Bellaar on April 25th, 2008 |
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Nick Paumgarten with Trapped in an Elevator for 41 Hours. A time-lapse video of a man trapped in an elevator for 41 hours has become something of an Internet sensation after surveillance camera footage emerged after nearly a decade. The runner up spot is for Nokia’s Human Snake. Farfar and Hobbyfilm created the innovative “Get Out and Play” campaign to promote Nokia’s game console N-Gage. Humanitainment.com completes this week’s top 3 with Baracky: The Movie. Hillary Clinton had to score big in Pennsylvania, and did. But can she win from Baracky…
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Written by Niels Bellaar on April 18th, 2008 |
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Nike with Kobe Bryant Jumps Over an Aston Martin. To promote the new Nike Hyperdunk shoe Nike made a viral video in which Kobe Bryant jumps over a speeding Aston Martin. The runner up spot is for Sony’s Foam City. After a lot of buzz on Flickr, YouTube, Technorati and Twitter, Fallon London finally launched the new Sony Bravia commercial last week. Excitechina.com.cn completes this week’s top 3 with Mario Theme Played with RC Car and Bottles. A radio-controlled car, beer bottles and the Super Mario tune are the ingredients of this viral video for the Chinese entertainment site.
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Written by Niels Bellaar on April 11th, 2008 |
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Runawaybox.com with Ooh Girl! - An Honest R&B Song. Santa Monica based Runawaybox.com mainly produces its own content with their team. Their most successful video is a spoof of all R&B songs. The video got over 3 million views in just three weeks time. The runner up spot is for Hillary, Be My Best Friend. YouTube personality Venetian Princess from Boston joins Obama Girls battle with her political music video. I’m F*cking Obama completes this week’s top 3. Hugh and Jez Atkin created a hilarious spoof of Sarah Silverman’s I’m F*cking Matt Damon.
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Written by Niels Bellaar on April 4th, 2008 |
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to YouTube with Rick Rolled. On April Fools day YouTube Rick Rolled its users by linking all of the featured videos to the Rick Astley video, resulting in over 9 million views. The runner up spot is for Exotic World Gifts with Elephant Paints Self Portrait. Online store Exotic World Gifts imports self portraits made by elephants. By selling their art they support these “Starving Elephant Artisans”. BBC’s Flying Penguins complete this week’s top 3. To promote BBC’s iPlayer Gorgeous and Passion Pictures created this April Fools joke video in which we see Terry Jones reporting from Antarctica about a unique colony of Adelie Penguins.
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Written by Niels Bellaar on March 28th, 2008 |
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Hillary Wasn’t Lying!. In a speech on Iraq policy last Monday, Hillary Clinton recalled facing “sniper fire” on her 1996 trip to Bosnia. But CBS reporters traveling with her made no reference to any “sniper fire” at the time… So was she lying or did she tell the truth? The runner up spot is for Barely Political with Hillary! Stop the attacks! Love, Obama Girl. After a one month absence Amber Lee Ettinger, aka Obama Girl, is back with a new music video. In her latest video she asks Hillary to stop her campaign and leave Obama alone. Milk Chocolate: A Love Story completes this week’s top 3. Leah Nelson and Jay Grandin created this ‘bunny love’ stop-motion video to introduce their new company.
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Written by Niels Bellaar on March 21st, 2008 |
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Bulgarian Idol: Ken Lee. The 29-year-old Valentina Hasan from Zvezdelina, Bulgaria became a real internet meme in the past month with her interpretation of Mariah Carey’s “Without You” in the television show “Music Idol”. The runner up spot is for Boston Dynamics with Big Dog. BigDog, the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots, is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. Awareness Test completes this week’s top 3. London based agencies Gorgeous Enterprises and WCRS created an awareness campaign for Transport for London.
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