Honestly guys: I could have stated that my attention was captured out of professional reasons. Because this video has generated over 650.000 views on YouTube alone in just 7 days.

But maybe it’s true what people say: the bigger the boys, they bigger their toys? Or could it in my case be the urgent need to make up for my first 24 years without advanced technologies, toys and gadgets?

If there is a doctor in the audience, pleas reach out to me: is it the midlife crisis knocking on my door or do I have an urgent need to catch up with technology? Just a simple and short consult would be sufficient. That can even be done through traditional communication channels like: e-mail, Messenger or Skype.

Just a quick chat might help. As you can see: I’m ready to talk about it.

And what’s the use of engaging me at your Parrot Facebook page, and trying to pull me through your AIDA funnel, towards awareness and trial, if you next do not offer me the possibility to purchase this quadricopter online?

What’s wrong with closing the loop in marketing nowadays? I’m I getting to old skool to understand this new skool marketing approach?

Please doctor please, do I already need to re-discover my VSPOT at 39 years old?

This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to New iPhone Commercial. Adam Thinks made this fake iPhone commercial and he’s actually doing a great job imitating the actual iPhone commercials. The runner up spot is for Jay-Z Rhapsody Commercial. Rapper and music mogul Jay-Z teamed up with online music provider Rhapsody to announce the release of his new album. Nokia’s N900 completes this week’s top 3. The iPhone made the touch screen mobile populair, Google quickly followed and so it was only a matter of time before the large names in the mobile phone industry would follow their lead.

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1. New iPhone Commercial

Adam Thinks made this fake iPhone commercial and he’s actually doing a great job imitating the actual iPhone commercials. This video shows that there really is an app for absolutely everything now. This commercials features different applications for stalking your ex-girlfriend. The video became extremely popular since Adam Thinks posted it on Youtube August 21th 2009 and it has already reached more than 500,000 views and more than 700 comments on YouTube. If you want to see other commercial parodies from Adam Think check some out here.

2. Jay-Z Rhapsody Commercial

Rapper and music mogul Jay-Z teamed up with online music provider Rhapsody to announce the release of his new album. The fans were granted a little preview with this viral. Until now the viral has rendered 336,614 views already. The video shows Jay-Z changing into the outfits he wore on the covers of his previous albums. The campaign was developed by Droga5 New York.

3. Nokia N900

The iPhone made the touch screen mobile popular, Google quickly followed and so it was only a matter of time before the large names in the mobile phone industry would follow their lead. And here it is: the Nokia N900. Just like Google’s Android system it runs on open source software, which is Linux. The video which has attracted nearly half a million views so far gives the viewer a first impression of the phone’s capabilities. With over 700 votes and an average rating of 5 stars it looks like Nokia is back in the race!

4. Visual Effects: 100 Years Of Special Effects

The video ‘Visual Effects: 100 Years Of Special Effects’ takes you on a journey through the most amazing and remarkable special effects of the past 100 years. From ‘The Great Train Robbery’ in 1903 to ‘The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button’ in 2008. We wrote about it earlier, but he videos was originally intended as an introduction to a classroom lecture for 5th graders and was placed on YouTube by Bengraphics. Now, the video got over 716,000 views and is much discussed in blogs. And for the music lovers: the song is ‘Rods and Cones’ by Blue Man Group

5. Radiolab: 16 Moments

Radiolab is a radio program broadcast on public radio stations in the United States. Recently the hosts, Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, made a one hour show titled “Moments of Death”. In a respons filmmaker Will Hoffman went out in search of moments of life. The above is what he found. The video got over 300,000 views in three weeks.

This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to The X Factor 2009 – Danyl Johnson. The English X Factor keeps being a talent generator. We have seen Susan Boyle, Paul Pots, Connie Talbot and Shaheen Jafargholi. And now there is Danyl Johnson. The runner up spot is for Lego Stop Motion Tribute To The 80′s. Retro is hot and so are stop motion videos. Swedish duo Rymdreglage combines the two in their video ’8 Bit trip’. Nokia Booklet 3G First Video completes this week’s top 3. Nokia rocked the world this week by introducing a video for a brand new breed of portable devices, called the Booklet 3G.

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1. The X Factor 2009 – Danyl Johnson

The English X Factor keeps being a talent generator. We have seen Susan Boyle, Paul Pots, Connie Talbot and Shaheen Jafargholi. And now there is Danyl Johnson. A 27-year old teacher with passion for singing and has made a amazing first audition at the show.

A real “show-stopper” of an audition on the song from The Beatles – With A Little Help From My Friends. The never shy Simon Cowell is very positive this time. “Danyl, I’ve been doing this for eight, nine years, and that was single handedly the best first audition I’ve ever heard,” says Simon.

2. Lego Stop Motion Tribute To The 80′s

Retro is hot and so are stop motion videos. Swedish duo Rymdreglage combines the two in their video ’8 Bit trip’. The video is a tribute to all your favorite games of the 80′s: Tetris, Mario, PacMan and they’re all compiled of Lego! The music in the video is by Daniel Larsson and the animation was done by Tomas Redigh, the two members of Rumdreglage, who spend 1,500 hours in creating this amazing video.

Tomas Redigh spend December 2008 to July 2009 in his studio moving Lego bricks around and taking pictures. It seems like all the effort the duo put in is already paying off. They placed the video online just 5 days ago and already got over 1.7 million views. Apparently, the duo wasn’t expecting this sudden abundance of attention. Their official website couldn’t handle the traffic and now reads: ‘Well after five years you people out there found us, at last, and start to visit this page. This site was obviously not made for that and reached the maximum limit of bit flow in one hour or something’.

3. Nokia Booklet 3G First Video

Nokia rocked the world this week by introducing a video for a brand new breed of portable devices, called the Booklet 3G. The video was picked up worldwide immediately by som influential blogs like Engadget, GSMArena.co and Sputnik, which already has resulted in a half million views and over 20 duplicate videos.
A long awaited introduction of Nokia in the world of netbooks. With the rising and fierce competition on the mobile market Nokia has chosen a widening of their productrange with this Nokia Booklet 3G.

4. Transforming Camaro

Michael Bay, renowned for movies full of explosions and the filming of the animation series Transformers keeps people imagining, robots that transform into a car and vice versa. Who does not want to have or do that?

A Mexican car-dealership jumped on the bandwagon, made use of the situation and put Bumblebee on-stage. It happens more often, mostly, men walk around in (weird) costumes from movies, but this costume can really transform into a Chevy Camaro.

Whether this has actually helped the car dealer remains unknown. The movie itself is already quite successful and has been viewed over 500,000 times.

5. Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. released a brilliant weird video this week featuring the Scratch Perverts, a collective of turntablist DJs from the UK. In the video the DJ’s use scratch tables and instruments with human heads attached to it. You should definitely visit the Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. website for some nice production stills.

This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Stanislav On Hyves. Last week the Dutch Ministry of Justice launched a campaign to raise awareness around the privacy on the internet topic. The runner up spot is for Do You Wanna Date My Avatar. The Guild is an award-winning online sitcom about the lives of an online guild “The Knights of Good”, and now the made a music video. COW Taster 001 completes this week’s top 3. COW Taster 001 is a pretty shocking video with images from girls who get into a severe car-accident.

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1. Stanislav On Hyves

Last week the Dutch Ministry of Justice launched a campaign to raise awareness around the privacy on the internet topic. The campaign aired on Holland’s largest social network Hyves where visitors were confronted with Stanislav and his gang of cybercrooks. Information from ones personal profile was used in the video to show just how much Stanislav knows about you. By now the campaign is offline again: in one week time the campaign reached 7 million people and got over 3 million views. According to the spokesman of the Ministry of Justice the target audience was reached.
The campaign caused a large discussion on the privacy topic, because the campaign itself used information from Hyves profiles that was set to private. The campaign was made by Dutch advertising agecy N=5, their digital department Kong and technical realisation was done by Amsterdam based Refunk.

2. Do You Wanna Date My Avatar

The Guild is an award-winning online sitcom about the lives of an online guild “The Knights of Good”, with each webisode 3–7 minutes long. The first episode was posted July 27, 2007. The show is sponsored by Microsoft and rolled out earlier this year for HD download on Xbox Live, as well as for download on the Zune Marketplace and streaming on MSN Video. On August 17 The Guild launched their music video ‘Do You Wanna Date My Avatar’, which got over 1.6 million views since.
More information on The Guild on their MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts.

3. COW Taster 001

COW Taster 001 is a pretty shocking video with images from girls who get into a severe car-accident. The British Transport Research, Consultancy & Testing recently performed a research on the driver distraction from in-vehicle sources which also showed messaging while driving is dangerous and significantly raises reaction times, even compared with driving at UK legal limit for alcohol consumption. The video shows what can happen. In fact the video is part of a campaign from the Gwent Police. The videos have characters drawn from real emergency services experience, from the initial crash to the tough job of talking to the deceased relatives, and dealing with a communities mourning, anger and confusion.

4. Obama Girl Dies

Obama Girl, normally known as Amber Lee Etting and most known from her song Crush on Obama has cheated death. But since few can cheat death Obama Girl Dies. The video shows Amber filming a new song for Obama, but an unfortunate fluke leads to her death. The video is actually part of a campaign for the movie Final Destination created by Indy Mogul where Derek D (supposedly another internet celebrity) dies an unfortunate death in his Ferrari.

5. Performance

This hilarious music clip of ‘MC SpandX’ of Ride Moore Records (supposedly the self-created label from Robin Moore) resulted in more than 500,000 views this week. In the video MC SpandX raps about his aversion to bike messengers and ‘hipsters’. ‘It’s all about Performance, that’s the name of the game, I pump up my tires and I oil my chain’. Even professional cyclist Lance Armstrong tweeted about it.

This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Guy Catches Laptop With His Butt. The Acrobuttocks have done it! With their gymnastic laptop throwing and butt-catching skills they have made it to the top in this week’s Viral Friday. The runner up spot is for What Drugs Not To Take While Driving. German comedian Michael Kessler offers guidance in the No-Go’s of daily life in his comedy show ‘Kesslers Knigge’, real handy! Ozzy Osbourne Meets the New Samsung Solstice Cell Phone completes this week’s top 3. Samsung Mobile USA hired rock star Ozzy Osbourne to play a role in their online video to promote their new Solstice phone.

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1. Guy Catches Laptop With His Butt

The Acrobuttocks have done it! With their gymnastic laptop throwing and butt-catching skills they have made it to the top in this week’s Viral Friday. As we reported before MSI has created a great viral.
With ViralTracker we were able to track the video and see it grow from 400,000 views on 13 August to over 940,000 views today and it keeps on growing.

Interesting to see are the discussions going on whether the video is real or not. The combination of humor and video-editing skills have made it a video with a great uptake in just a couple of days.
A Google Blogsearch learns us the video has been posted or written about at least 19,000 times, and a Bing search reveals 101,000 hits. All in all a successful viral.

2. What Drugs Not To Take While Driving

German comedian Michael Kessler offers guidance in the No-Go’s of daily life in his comedy show ‘Kesslers Knigge’. By means of short sketches, Michael explains what 10 things not to do when breaking up with your girlfriend, at the luggae belt, or in the cinema. In ’10 Drogen – beim Autofahren’, the comedian illustrates which drugs not to take while driving.

The video got over 620,000 views on YouTube and 2,100 ratings. The video is mainly popular in Germany, but is spreading further online.

3. Ozzy Osbourne Meets The Samsung Solstice

Samsung Mobile USA hired rock star Ozzy Osbourne to play a role in their online video. The objective is to raise awareness for the new Samsung Solstice Cell Phone.
In this video, Ozzy is being asked to join a new band, but with who exactly? See for yourselves! Check out also the Samsung Mobile USA YouTube channel and the Samsung Mobile Facebook Channel.

4. Johnny Walker’s Walk

Johnny Walker released this brilliant five-minute-plus spot, developed by BBH London. In the video famous actor Robert Carlyle narrates, in a single continuous take, the progression of Johnnie Walker whiskey from the backroom experimentation of a humble shopkeeper to the multinational powerhouse it is today. The combination of bagpiper abuse, well-timed visual cues, pitch-perfect writing and music, makes this a strong video.
Although Johnny Walker wants us to ‘Keep Walking’, we can’t help wondering what Mr. Walker might also have thought about the current plans to close one of his descendants’ plants, though…

5. ABSOLUT Differently

ABSOLUT Vodka launched their new commercial ‘Anthem’, for which the brand teamed up with six artists. The artists came together at different locations around the world, to share their visions on an ABSOLUT world and spell out the brand’s philosophy of ‘Doing things differently leads to something exceptional.’

By means of large installations the message is spelled out in ice blocks, flying lanterns, balloons, wheat and glass. The video was created by TBWA\CHIAT\DAY New York. First, the 30 and 60 second spots broadcast in the US and other markets will follow during the autumn, winter and spring.

The commercial was launched two weeks ago and awaited with much anticipation. Now, the opinions vary and the video is much discussed online. Some like it, some don’t, but the on YouTube the commercial got over 40,000 views, which isn’t bad for a television commercial.

This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Moon in Google Earth. Last Monday Google celebrated the 40th anniversary of the moon landing by introducing their new, interactive version of Moon in Google Earth. The runner up spot is for Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium. A very beautiful and inspiring movie caught the attention and hearts so many this week: a single shot video of the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan. Today Was a Good Day completes this week’s top 3. To celebrate Paul Rodriguez’s signature skate shoe hitting its 3rd generation Nike SB has put together this special commercial titled ‘Today Was a Good Day’.

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1. Moon In Google Earth

On July 20 1969 Neil Armstrong landed on the moon and spoke the now famous words ‘One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind’. Last Monday Google celebrated the 40th anniversary of the moon landing by introducing their new, interactive version of Moon in Google Earth. With Google Earth 5.0 you can take tours of landing sites, narrated by Apollo astronauts, views 3D models of landed spacecraft, zoom into 360-degree photos to see astronauts’ footprints and watch rare TV footage of the Apollo missions. Besides this virtual tour Google Earth provides information on manned and unmanned moon missions and unique material of all American, Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Indian missions. The video Google made to promote Moon In Google Earth is a huge success with over 1 million views on YouTube and many blogs and news sites wrote about the video.

2. Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium

A very beautiful and inspiring movie caught the attention and hearts so many this week: a single shot video of the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan. Its serenity and the overwhelming views of the whale sharks, manta rays and many other fishes. The aquarium is the second largest aquarium of the world and has Georgia Aquarium as the leading aquarium.
The aquarium mimics the Japanes Kuroshio-current, the Black Tide and is with 7,500 cubic-meters and 7.5 million liters of oceanic water not a small aquarium to put it mildly. Words are too much for this movie which has been watched over 1 million times on YouTube and Vimeo. Click and enjoy.

3. Nike SB: Today Was A Good Day

Nike produces skateboard gear under their SB label, including shoes. One of these shoe models is called P-Rod, named after Mexican-American professional skateboarder Paul Rodriguez (a rider for the Nike team). To celebrate Paul Rodriguez’s signature skate shoe hitting its 3rd generation Nike SB has put together this special commercial titled ‘Today Was a Good Day’. The video, with music from Ice Cube (his ’93 track ‘Today Was A Good Day’), shows what P-Rod feels an ideal LA day would play out. Read more on skate videos in this ViralBlog posting.

4. Snoop Dogg’s Smoking Closet

Snoop Dogg launched the viral video ‘Snoop Dogg’s Smoking Closet’ in order to promote his European ‘Blazed and Confused’ tour. The video is a spoof on Heineken’s Walk In Fridge and shows the rapper and his friends Verne Troyer, A.K.A. MiniMe, and Stephen Marley, as well Slightly Stoopid and Mickey Avalon, who join Snoop on his tour. We already wrote about the video on ViralBlog and it keeps on generating views: over 185,000 on Funny or Die and YouTube!

5. Bruno Gets Bruno’ed

Bruno, Sasha Baron Cohen’s latest alter ego, got Bruno’ed on the premiere of his own movie Bruno, when an imposter treated the waiting fans on a promo of the South African restaurant chain Nando’s and her PERi-PERi chili-sauce. The look-alike arrived with a whole entourage and parked in front of the theater in a Hummer and entertained the audience for 10 minutes when security realized this wasn’t the real Bruno and pulled him off-stage. Bruno was not-amused, but stole the show with his own entry on a horse and small army of scantily clad men and women.
The whole campaign of and around Bruno is very wide with a Meinspace, Twitter, Facebook, Digg Dialogg, Dildo Defender Game and uBeats.

This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to United Breaks Guitars. Dave Carroll is the singer in a band. In the spring of 2008 they traveled with United Airlines. They broke his guitar and refuse to pay for it, so Dave wrote a song about his experience. The runner up spot is for Office 2010: The Movie. A movie about Office 2010? Yes, packed with action and at moments even funny! Bleeding Billboard completes this week’s top 3. The local governments of Franklin District Council and Papakura District Council in New Zealand have taken remarkable precautions in order to decrease fatal car accidents.

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1. United Breaks Guitars

Dave Carroll is the singer in a band called Sons Of Maxwell (listen to their songs on their YouTube channel). In the spring of 2008 the band traveled to Nebraska with United Airlines. A lot happened that trip, read it all on Dave’s blog. In short: Dave brought a very expensive Taylor guitar that experienced rough handling by United Airlines baggage handlers in Chicago, resulting in severe damage to the guitar. United refused to pay for the damage, so Dave decided to write a song about his experience with United. And so he did. His song got viewed almost 3.2 million times on YouTube in 11 days and 15,486 viewers left a comment. Now United experiences the force of social media. I bet United will feel this.

2. Office 2010: The Movie

Microsoft is buzzing a lot lately. Windows 7 buzz, Project Natal, laptop hunters and now the Office 2010 including an exciting teaser and trailer video. The teaser and trailer seem to be made for a new movie with a lot of action and on some moments are quite funny.
Old veteran Clippy is no longer and now the battle has begun to track and trace a hacker who has released a new font on the internet. An entertaining trailer and afterward people can visit the site.

Big news about Office 2010 are the Office Web applications, lighter versions of Word, PowerPoint and Excel which will compete with Google Docs.

3. Bleeding Billboard

The local governments of Franklin District Council and Papakura District Council in New Zealand have taken remarkable precautions in order to decrease fatal car accidents. The first heavy rains after summer, bring the highest death toll on New Zealand roads. In order to lower the road toll they placed a bleeding billboard. The billboard features a young boy whose eyes, nose and ears bleed when it rains. And the message reads: “Rain changes everything. Drive to the conditions”.

The Bleeding Billboard was developed by Colenso BBDO and was awarded with a Bronze Design Lion at Cannes International Advertising Festival. Local, national and even international media picked up the story, driving awareness for weather conditions and driving habits. Online the video generated almost 1 million YouTube views. As a result, the district of Papakura faced zero death tolls.

4. The PEN Story

Mireille already wrote about it: the PEN story. For the 50th anniversary of the PEN cameras, Olympus created a stop motion video. They shot 60,000 pictures, developed 9,600 of them and then reshot 1,800 pics. And there was no post production.

Within two weeks the video generated over 670,000 views on YouTube and judging by the comments The PEN Story is highly appreciated by the viewers. As well as the song that accompanies the video. Next to the video, NEUE DIGITALE GmbH, created a website for the PEN story, where you can also download the song by Johannes Stankowski.

5. O.M.G.I.G.P: Internet Explorer 8

Not everything went as planned this week for Microsoft. Their recently launched “Browse Better” campaign, to promote Internet Explorer 8, showcased 4 different movies with Dean Cain called “Special Internet Service Announcements”. One movie however was too much according to many: the movie shows a woman vomiting when she uses her husband’s laptop. The reactions were mixed, but many thought it was too much. Microsoft was forced to pull the movie. However, this movie responsible for 57% of all views of the complete campaign and nearly 60% of comments are related to this movie. With over 800,000 views this is the most successful movie of the Browse Better campaign. Who knows, perhaps Microsoft actually did plan it this way. It is a viral success.

This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Bare Essentials Of Safety. So you thought the safety instruction videos in airplanes were boring? Think again! Air New Zealand strips their crew to the bare essentials… The runner up spot is for Evian Roller Babies. Evian, the world famous French brand of mineral water has just launched a new viral featuring roller blades and babies. Fireworks By PES completes this week’s top 3. Adam Pesapane, aka PES, released another stunning stop motion video, called Fireworks.

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1. Bare Essentials Of Safety

Always thought the safety instruction videos in airplanes were boring? Think again! Air New Zealand launched a new in flight safety video on their domestic 737 services, in which some of the crew volunteered to wear nothing but body paint while explaining the safety instructions.

The video is part of the ‘Nothing to hide‘ campaign (earlier we featured another viral from this campaign in Viral Friday). By means of this campaign Air New Zealand wants to prove that what you see is what you pay: in contradiction to most low-cost airlines who often surprise you with extra charges to the fares.

Next to in flight use, the video was shot for Air New Zealand’s television campaign, and now online the video has gone viral. Many blogs posted the video, it got over 850 tweets and MSN, NY Times, LA Times, the Telegraph and Channel Seven Australia reported on the remarkable video. At YouTube, the video got over 3.5 million views. At their website, the airline company also released a blooper version, always nice to watch. And even this variant already generated over 300,000 views on YouTube.

2. Evian Roller Babies

Evian, the world famous French brand of mineral water has just launched a new viral. Did Evian introduce the successful Water babies with babies jumping and dancing in the pool, this time all attention is taken by the babies on rollerskates. Evian shows what drinking Evian will do to your body. The movie has the right ingredients for true viral success: babies, retro music and stunts. The somewhat strange movie is at the same time very appealing and babies are very heartwarming and very adorable.
The babies are a huge success achieving more than 2,5 million views worldwide. Babies are almost every time a ticket to success: look at the E*Trade’s laughing baby.

Evian can be very happy with the result. Evian, bring out your dancing shoes (or skates), because it’s party time!

3. Fireworks By PES

Adam Pesapane, aka PES, released another stop motion video: Fireworks. The video was posted on YouTube on the 1st of July, so that was just in time for one of the biggest firework events of the year, the fourth of July. The video got positive reponses online and set the mood for the Independence Day over in the States. The video now already generated over 500 tweets and almost 600,000 views on YouTube.

4. Eternal Moonwalk

It’s like CNN said, Michael Jackson died and almost took the internet with him. Last week Viral Friday featured the inmate’s tribute to the King of Pop, this week it’s Studio Brussel, a Belgium radio station, who pay MJ a final tribute. Together with group94 and Mortierbrigade they launched the website Eternalmoonwalk.com. The website features hundreds of people from all over the world (and some animals and objects) attempting to recreate the Moonwalk. Users can upload their version of Michael Jackson’s moonwalk, and each video is placed adjacent to the previous one to create a perpetual virtual moonwalk. Over 3,200 people retweeted the website, on July 7 the site was FWA Site of the Day and received over 480,000 visits.

5. Sour ‘Hibi No Neiro’

Sour, a Japanese band, existing of 3 members: Hoshijima (guitar) Sohey (Bass) and Kennnn (drums), asked their fans to create a clip for their new song. The co-creation of filming the clip for the song “Hibi no neiro” has resulted in a very nice clip with 64 selected fans from all over the world. A web cam and a piece of paper was all that was needed. Sour has a history of creating inspiring and simple clips like “Omakage no saki” (Beyond your memory) and “Hangetsu” (Rainbow under the overpass). Using little means and the combined power of their fans Sour has reached over 200,000 views and more than 1000 retweets.

This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to CPDRC Inmate’s Michael Jackson Tribute. With the sudden loss of The King of Pop there have been many tributes dedicated to Michael Jackson worldwide. The most popular viral video of this week are the dancing inmates of the Cebu Provicial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Filipines. The runner up spot is for Kia Soul Rock. South Korean car manufacturer Kia launched a viral video to promote their new car, the Kia Soul! MacBook Transforms Into Mini Jet completes this week’s top 3. A surprising entry on ViralFriday from an unexpected corner. LaPoste, the French postal service, launched a video with a transforming MacBook and then aiming for conversion to laposte.fr/lre.

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1. CPDRC Inmate’s Michael Jackson Tribute

With the sudden loss of The King of Pop there have been many tributes dedicated to Michael Jackson worldwide. The most popular viral video of this week are the dancing inmates of the Cebu Provicial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) in the Filipines. The 1,500 inmates have now reached worldwide fame with their dance performances to numbers such as Soulja Boy – Crank That and Michael Jackson’s famous song Thriller. That video has been watched over 28 million times.

The dancing inmates have reached over 3 million views since 27th June and have become the biggest rising video of this week. The signature move of Michael Jackson must be the world famous Moonwalk which he introduced and demonstrated on 16th May 1983 during a performance. This dance has been honored with many tributes as well.

2. Kia Soul Rock

South Korean car manufacturer Kia launched a viral video to promote their new car, the Kia Soul! The video takes its viewers to the Motko port in South Korea, where hundreds of Souls are being shipped everyday. At the site of port, over a hundred Kia Souls, driven by professional stunt drivers, create various images with the cars. There is a man waving his arms, a Soul rolling over the road and finally the Soul logo.

The responses to the viral video are positive and the video was posted on Korean portal Tagstory, as well as on a number of influential international blogs such as Streetfire, Topspeed, Carblogger and Autoblog. Within one month the video got over 1 million YouTube views. According to Kia, they wanted to capture the atmosphere of the site as if it was actually happening during shipping. However, at the end they do warn not to try this home!

3. MacBook Transforms Into Mini Jet

A surprising entry on ViralFriday from an unexpected corner. LaPoste, the French postal service, launched a video with a transforming MacBook and then aiming for conversion to laposte.fr/lre. The results are quite extraordinary, especially for this kind of business. The video generated over 400,000 views on LiveLeak and almost 430,000 views on YouTube since June 15, which brings it to a total of over 830,000 views in under three weeks!

Earlier Matthijs shared his thoughts on this video, read his posting here.

4. Web Site Story

CollegeHumor know exactly how to surprise us time and again. Now they have launched the amusing internet musical spoof Web Site Story. For all of those who ever wondered what would have happened to Tony and Maria had they lived in the digital age.

CollegeHumor’s first Broadway musical since Cats, as they like to call it, only went live this Monday but already found its way on the web. In just five days, there are over 3.500 retweets, diggs and stumpleupons. Next, the video got the attention of some major blogs such as Techcrunch and Slashfilms and leading news sites LA Times and Wall Street Journal.

This week CollegeHumor also launched the entertaining video “Luigi finally Snaps“, in which Mario’s famous sidekick finally stands up against his friend. Within a few days, this video generated over 800,000 views on YouTube alone.

5. Nokia N97

The Nokia N97 is the latest “mobile computer” in the Nseries of smartphones by Nokia and was launched last month. To promote the phone in the Russian market Russian agency “Социальные сети” (or “Snetwork”) created the above commercial. The video first aired on Nokia Mobile Camp in Moscow. Maybe it’s not the most original commercial you’ve ever seen and it is slightly predictable, but it does feature the one aspect that, usually, sells: a hot babe. Maybe it’s the difference in culture, or maybe it’s all due to the woman, but the video almost 300,000 views on YouTube and the Russian video portals urk.net, Yandex video, RuTube and Repka since June 15. The viral made it to the second place in the Yandex “most popular” video list and can be found on several Russian blogs and sites.
(Source: Adme.ru)

This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Hot Babes Test Drive Bras. Ultimo, Britain’s leading underwear brand, and theme park Alton Towers Resort have teamed up to test if the Ultimo bras could withstand the G-forces on the different roller coasters. The runner up spot is for JibJab with He’s Barack Obama. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Barack Obama and he has come to save the day! Banksy Versus Bristol Museum completes this week’s top 3. British graffiti artist Banksy obtained fame with his social critical art. After years of exhibiting his art in forbidden public places he now for the first time shows his works in a museum: Banksy vs Bristol Museum.

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1. Hot Babes Test Drive Bras

Ultimo, Britain’s leading underwear brand, and theme park Alton Towers Resort have teamed up to test if the Ultimo bras could withstand the G-forces on the different roller coasters, including Rita Queen of Speed and Spinball Whizzer, and to produce an underwear advisory guide. A variety of Ultimo bras were put to the test to check they kept everything in tact – after news spread that girls are having nasty mishaps on the rides this summer. “Many women across the UK wear ill-fitting bras, which can not only cause discomfort and long-term health problems, but also accidental exposure at inappropriate times,” said Ultimo’s MD Michelle Mone. The video of the bra test got over 430,000 views on YouTube since it was uploaded on June 15.

2. JibJab: He’s Barack Obama!

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Barack Obama and he has come to save the day! JibJab, created and founded in 1999 by Gregg and Evan Spiridellis, puts the rock in Barack with a new, over-the-top JibJab original satire, that debuted in front of the President himself last Friday at the 65th Annual Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner! JibJab also made a blog posting on how the video was made, including extra pictures and videos.
(Source: ViralBlog)

3. Banksy Versus Bristol Museum

British graffiti artist Banksy obtained fame with his social critical art. He shocked all of England with his paintings and even broke into the London and Bristol Zoo to portray his works there. After years of exhibiting his art in forbidden public places, Banksy, who’s real identity is still unknown, now for the first time shows his works in a museum: Banksy vs Bristol Museum.

The news and the accompanying film, which shows how Banksy ‘secretly’ takes over the museum, fast spread online. Within two weeks, over 300,000 people watched the film on YouTube alone. British blogs discuss ‘Banksy vs Bristol’ and many respond with great enthusiasm, while others wonder if he selling out on portraying his provoking works of art in forbidden places. In a rare statement, the artist himself says: “The people in Bristol have always been very good to me – I decided the best way to show my appreciation was by putting a bunch of old toilets and some live chicken nuggets in their museum… This is the first show I’ve ever done where taxpayers’ money is being used to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off.”

4. Mtn Dew Game Fuel: Choose Your Side

Mountain Dew (or Mtn Dew), the soft drink manufactured and distributed by PepsiCo, celebrates the launch of their Game Fuel beverages with this commercial. As you may notice, Mountain Dew teamed up with Blizzard Entertainment, the creators of World of Warcraft, to create awareness among gamers. “Choose your Side” at the special website warcraft.com/dew (only if you’re from the US, so keep that in mind while registering). The “Choose your Side” commercial got over 270,000 views, 540 ratings and 584 text comments on YouTube since June 14th.

5. Layar: Mobile Augmented Reality Browser

Layar is the world’s first mobile augmented reality browser and it premiers in the Netherlands. Layar is developed by SPRX Mobile and displays real time digital information on top of reality in the camera screen of the mobile phone. Layar is derived from location based services and works on mobile phones that include a camera, GPS and a compass. Layar is first available for handsets with the Android operating system (the G1 and HTC Magic). The introduction video got over 217,000 views since June 15 and sites like RWW, Engadget and TechCrunch wrote about Layar. Want to know the latest about Layar? Follow @layarmobile. Want to congratulate the team behind Layar? Follow @rhymo and/or @claireboo.