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China's 2008 Most Popular Google Terms Out!
Awkward feeling: I am writing an item about social and uncontrolled media, but it's about China, freedom of speech (Tibet?) and Google (don't be evil?). Mixed emotions. However, professionally I wanted to let you know, what Chinese asked most to Goog......Related tags: apac, china, david_beckham, evil, freedom_of_speech, google, google-in-china, keyword_search, mixed_emotions, national_basketball_association, nba, tibet, top-google-searches-in-china, top-searches-google, virals
YouTube Gains Views, But Loses Market Share
The latest online video audience numbers, released today by ComScore, are sort of a good news/bad news scenario for Google's YouTube. YouTube gained 5.4 Billion views in July 2008, but its share went down almost 10% over the same period. How can that......Related tags: audience_numbers, competitor, comscore, disney, disney_property, duration, espn, fox-interactive, fox_interactive, google, hulu, interactive_media, internet_audience, juggernaut, myspace, online-video, online-video-growth, three_minutes, us, usa-video-sites, viacom, viacom-digital, video-marketing, video_views, yahoo, youtube, youtube-grows, youtube-lowes-market-share
Matt Harding Stars In Visa's New Ad Campaign
Visa has launched a travel-focused campaign starring internet celebrity Matt Harding, who dances his way through several locations across Asia, promoting Visa's global currency campaign. In the new commercial Matt celebrates the hassle-free jo......Related tags: ad, advert, asia, bbdo, bees_nees, dance, dancing, google, harding, matt, pacific, popular, stride, travel, video, videos, viral, virals, visa, web, where_the_hell_is_matt, youtube
Google Switch: How A Hoax Turned Viral
In some Dutch colleges its not unusual to concept and develop your own project. My own (former) university, Communication and Multimedia Design, is one of them. Creating the things you see in your future vision of multimedia is a great way to get cre......Related tags: google, hoax, samsung, switch, viral
Ibiza: Guerrilla & Performance Marketing Island
Last month I enjoyed a sunny holiday in Ibiza again. I love the island and like a retired granddaddy I've been visiting it for 20 years. Ibiza makes my entertainment and guerrilla marketing heart beat faster each time I visit. So granddaddy still roc......Related tags: bora-bora, cmo, dc10, faitless, google, guerrilla, house-music, ibiza, kate-moss, marketers, marketing, micah, music, p.ddy, pacha, party, performance-marketing, promotion, roger-sanchez, sa-trinxa, salinas, shakira, space
Viral Friday: Bill Gates & Jerry Seinfeld
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread. This weeks Viral Friday #1 position......Related tags: barackrolld, bill-gates, burger-king, commercials, google, jerry-seinfield, john-mccain, lego, microsoft, miniman, obama, skype, skype-laughter, super-mario, viral, windows
UK Teens Illegal Pool Crashing Via Google Earth
The latest craze for UK teenagers with no place to go except Facebook is "dipping," or gatecrashing someone else's swimming pool. The teens select their swimming pool using Google Earth, and then notify their mates using social networking sites. ......Related tags: bashing, bebo, beer_cans, brand_managers, dipping, earth, facebook, fancy_dress, gap, getaway, google, great-britain, latest_craze, myspace, next_morning, police, pool, pool-crashing, pool-dipping, revellers, social-network, social_networking_sites, swimming-pool, swimming_pool, swimming_pools, target, uk, uk_police, uk_teenagers
Video Ads Gain 22%, Static & Search Ads Lose
JupiterResearch recently reported that, even with a lousy economy, the amount of money spent on online advertising should continue to grow at double-digit rates all the way through to 2013. A no brainer. Since online should do better than offline adv......Related tags: 1_billion, accountability, amount_of_money, budgets, classified_advertising, display_advertising, economic_problems, google, jupiter, jupiter-research, lost_22, marketers, maturation, no_brainer, online-advertising, pay_per_click, print_advertising, search-enige-marketing, search_advertising, search_market, text_ads, video-trend, video_advertising, viral-internet-commercials, viraltracker
Disintermediation Of Frenemy Google Continues
Recently I heard my boss, WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell say in a Cannes panel: "from Frenemy to Froe. He was referring to Google, at which WPP spends about $850 Million a year. If you understand the galactic power battle for media advertising D......Related tags: adplanner-google, boiling-frog-theory, change-management, communications, dis-intermediate, disintermediation, disruption, frenemy, frogs, google, google-ad-planner, groupm, marketing, media-agency, media-buying, online-marketing, philip-kotler, sir-martin-sorrell, wpp
Radiohead: Smart Use Of Video & Social Media
Many music companies and bands have embraced internet, online video and social media marketing. Radiohead just released a new video for its song House of Cards from the album In Rainbows, in a way many art directors and interactive agencies should pa......Related tags: 2d, 3d, animation, art, art_directors, editing, google, house_of_cards, igadget, in_rainbows, lasers, media_marketing, music, music-bands, music_companies, radiohead, rainbows, social-media-marketing, video-clip, video-production, widgets
CMO's Get SEO Help From The Poetic Prophet?
The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) is back with another marketing rap. This time he raps about Search Engine Optimization (SEO): how web standards and proper design can improve the ranking and conversion of pages on your site. Actually I ......Related tags: aka, coding, conversion, css, funny-commercial, google, html, marketing, marketing-rap, poetic-prophet, prophet, rap, rap-music, search-engine-optimization, search_engine_optimization, seo, seo-rapper, social-media-marketing, viral, webdesign, web_standards
Will Google Start Second Life Competitor?
Almost a year ago rumors were going that Google was planning to launch a 3D social network like Second Life. I have not seen it yet, have you? The rumor came from students and from Michael Eisenberg, a partner at Benchmark Capital, which is o......Related tags: 3d-world, arizona, arizona_state_university, asu, benchmark_capital, cnn, crunch, earth, google, investors, maps, michael_eisenberg, redefine-your-world, secondlife, second_life, social-network, speculations, tech-crunch, ugc, virtual-community, virtual-world, virtual_world
How CMO's Misunderstand Facebook's Power
Facebook use has soared over the last year, and will soon be Britain's most popular website, according to analysts. In an earlier post here, I called Google the cafeteria and Facebook the trendy restaurant of the Internet. The latest figures ......Related tags: age_interests, auction_site, britain, briton, burmaster, chief-marketing-officer, disruptive-marketing, ebay, facebook, google, instant_messenger_service, internet_research_company, media-agencies, media-planning, messaging_service, outdated, science, search_engines, seismic_shift, service_windows, short_space, stickiness, video_spaces, which_allows_users, windows_live_messenger
Microsoft Attacks Google: Live Search Cashback
How to disrupt Google? At the Microsoft's Bill Gates shook up the powerful search industry by introducing Microsoft's new Live Search Cashback product that shifts search advertising from cost-per-click (CPC) to cost-per-action (CPA) and promises to g......Related tags: advance08, advertising-leadershop-forum, bill-gates, bill_gates, cost_per_click, cpa, cpc, gates, google, live-search-cashback, microsoft, microsofts-live-search-cashback, nasdaq, search-strategy, search_advertising, search_industry, search_market, seattle, video-bill-gates, viralblog
Cool Video Cartoon: The Social Networking Wars
Recently I wrote at ViralBlog that I felt Google seems to be the cafeteria of the internet and Facebook is like the new and trendy restaurant. But if you take a look at the hilarious video cartoon below on the social networking wars, I might ......Related tags: animation, cafeteria, comedy, facebook, fun, google, myspace, scottgoodson, smo, social-networking-wars, socialmedia, socialnwtorks, strawberryfrog, twitter, video, video-about-twitter, video-cartoon, viralblog, wars
ABN AMRO Launches Social Network Flametree
In The Netherlands ABN AMRO has introduced Flametree, an online social network for entrepreneurs and SME's. Customers of ABN AMRO asked: please open up your network for us, so we can share it too. ABN AMRO listened to it's customers and launched......Related tags: abn, abn-amro, bank, brand-activation, brand-manager, branding, brands, campaigns, cmo, engagement-theaters, finance, flametree, google, listen, marketing2.0, peer-interactions, peers, social-media, social-networks, tv-commercials, zecco
Cafeteria Google vs New Restaurant Facebook
As former CMO, former IAB CEO and last 4 years as digital agency MD, I have really experienced the power of Google. Google has disrupted marketing strategies, neutralized monopolies of large brands with huge marketing budgets and has offered small br......Related tags: advertisers, agencies, blogging, blogs, branding, buzz, campaign, ceo, cmo, commercials, community, consumers, digital, ed, facebook, google, iab, internet, marketers, marketing, msn, myspace, networks, online, opinions, optimization, portals, s, seeding, sem, seo, strategy, traditional, uploading, video, videos, viral, yahoo, youtube
Look At Jeep's Smart Social Media Strategy!
Do I believe that brands still need a traditional PR and Media agency? Yes Sir! But I am even more convinced that in this digital era, brands also need a Social Media Agency; with brand engagement architects, strategic social media planners, viral, s......Related tags: advertising, agencies, automotive, blog, blogging, blogs, branded, branding, cars, communities, community, digital, forums, google, jeep, marketer, marketers, marketing, media, network, networks, optimization, photos, s, seo, smo, social, traditional, video, videos, viral, virals
MicroSkype: Will Microsoft Buy Skype Also?
Microsoft is shaking and breaking up the digital media landscape by announcing its bid for Yahoo! It's clear that Microsoft with the Yahoo! purchase wants to claim back a part of the SEA cake from Google, since Microsoft's portals MSN have clearly lo......Related tags: beats, delicious, digital, e-commerce, ebay, facebook, flickr, gmail, google, googletalk, im, instant-messenger, knowing, logic, media, media_landscape, microsoft, msn, msn_messenger, next, portals, skype, social, stable, users, yahoo, yahoo-messenger, youtube
Microsoft Bids $44.6 Billion For Yahoo
Microsoft already took a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 Million last year. Now Microsoft shakes up the digital media landscape by announcing its $44.6 Billion bid for Yahoo. The software giant announced this morning its intentions to bid $31 a share......Related tags: bill-gates, bill_gates, ceo, ceo_steve_ballmer, facebook, google, jerry-yang, jerry_yang, media_landscape, microsoft, microsoft-bids, microsoft-to-buy-yahoo!, microsoft_ceo, milestone, proposal, search_strategy, software_giant, stake, steve-ballmer, steve_ballmer, transformation, yahoo, yahoo_ceo
IceMobile's LiveCastr: Mobile Social Networking
Recently I visited the new office of my friend Ralph Cohen, founder at IceMobile. Today he surprised me again with his e-mail: We are proud to inform you that IceMobile has officially announced LiveCastr at the World Economic Forum in Davos today. ......Related tags: 3g, beta_period, bill_gates, blog, blogging, blogs, davos, downloadable_application, e_mail, forums, founder, founders, google, google_founders, ice-mobile, icemobile, invitation, marketer, marketers, marketing, media, mobile, mobile_phones, model, models, network, next, online, personalized, ralph-cohen, ralph_cohen, rupert_murdoch, smo, social, social_networking, software, video, video_coverage
Berlitz: Ken Touched This Viral Commercial
Remember the great viral commercial 'Mayday, We Are Sinking' starring the German Coast Guard from Language company Berlitz? It was a cheap production but hilarious, and it reached millions of internet users without spending media costs or high CPM's.......Related tags: advertising, agencies, berlitz, branded, branding, buzz, coast_guard, commercial, commercials, cpm, german, german-coast-guard, german_coast, google, google_results, internet, internet_users, language, language_company, launch, marketers, marketing, mayday, media, new, online, pagerank, seeding, smo, social, traditional, viral
KnickerPicker: The Viral Online Dressing Room?
This item is about sexy girls, adult content, online video, e-commerce and fashion. Interested? Read along! The most widely known English translation of the Kama Sutra was made in 1883. The book gained global reputation for being the best of pornogra......Related tags: adult, adult_content, adult_industry, axe-effect, axe_effect, babes, branded, branding, combine, consumers, content, digital, dressing_room, e-commerce, fashion, fashion_brands, fashion_industry, global_reputation, google, google_searches, igor-beuker, internet, kama_sutra, knickerpicker, lingerie, mobile, mobile_phones, online, opinions, pornographic_work, pretty_girls, sexy_babes, sexy_girls, translation, trends, understatement, unilever, victoria-secret, video, viral, virals
SQPN: The Best In Catholic Podcasting
It might sound strange to you, but the Catholic Church is blogging and podcasting in a phenomenal way! This concept by the Catholic Church should really win a Webby Award! And yes, like many brands the Catholic Church is losing loyal customers. Like ......Related tags: amazon, audio, blogs, branded, branding, catholic-church, catholic-insider, churches, consumers, digital, donations, dutch, google, maps, marketer, marketers, marketing, network, online-donations, podcast, pope-john-paul-ii, revolution, social, social-media, sqpn, statement, us, viral, viral-marketing, virals, wikipedia
Prometeus: The Media Revolution?
First of all, on behalf of our ViralBlog team, I want to wish you a very healthy, happy and social 2008! Do you also have lots of expectations for 2008? I expect new and exciting break throughs in social media this year. Maybe it's nice to start ......Related tags: amazon, copyright, future, future-online-trends, google, innovation, internet, knowing, microsoft, new, new_year, old, online-trends, opinions, prometeus, revolution, scope, social, social-trends, trend, trends, videos, viralblog, world_share
Googlezon The Future Of Participatory Media?
I just want to say to our viral community: I wish you Merry Xmas and a very healthy and happy 2008! If you are interested in the future of social and participatory media in 2015, just read along. Googlezon is the name of a fictional future compan......Related tags: 2015, amazon, amazoogle, apple, blogger, communities, community, epic, film, friendster, future_company, google, googlegrid, googlezon, insiders, matt_thompson, media, merry, microsoft, participatory, sloan, social, viral, viralblog, virals, wikipedia, youtube
Facebook's Monthly User Growth: 7 million!
About a month ago I posted the article Facebook Frenzy, giving a roundup of Facebook buzz, thoughts about the TripAdvisor's application "Cities I’ve Visited" and the publication of demographic data of Facebook users in 31 countries, taken from Face......Related tags: communities, community, countries, country, facebook, google, microsoft, myspace, social-networks, statistics, stats, user, users
Oprah Launches YouTube Channel
Talkshow queen Oprah Winfrey has launched her own channel on the Google owned video sharing website YouTube. Last Friday she unveiled her brand new channel in a video to the YouTube community. Oprah's channel will feature exclusive videos she has mad......Related tags: chad_hurley, esmee_denters, evolution_of_dance, google, oprah, oprah_winfrey_show, paul_potts, steve_chen, video_sharing, youtube
Interview Rob Norman Global CEO GroupM
Andy Plesser at Beet.tv did a series of video interviews out of the Future of Business Media conference in NYC last week. See the below interview with Rob Norman, CEO, Global at GroupM. I have had the pleasure to meet Rob in Marbella and NYC this ......Related tags: ad-rates, beats, beet, business_media, ceo, cpm, cpm_rates, czar, facebook, google, groupm, marbella, media_conference, online-advertising, pleasure, stake, video, video-ads, videoegg, video_advertising, video_interviews, visionair, wpp
Great Story On Captcha & Human Computation
Abstract tasks like image recognition are trivial for humans, but continue to challenge even the most sophisticated computer programs. This talk introduces a paradigm for utilizing human processing power to solve problems that computers cannot yet s......Related tags: captcha, captchas, google, google_images, human_computation, images, image_labelling, image_search, luis_von_ahn, mind_games, peekaboom, query, social_media, tagging, tag_clouds, verbosity, word_games
Dilemma: Apple iPhone Or Google gPhone?
Since a few months a flash my iPhone to anybody that wants to see it. To be honest, I also 'spam flash' my iPhone to people that didn't even give me permission to be exposed to it! Although GPRS is slow, and the US iPhone is not suited for Europe ......Related tags: android, apple, apple_iphone, blackberry, blackberry_pearl, google, google-android, google_gphone, gphone, gprs, iphone, mobile, mobile_gadgets, mobile_pc, pda, steve_jobs, umts, youtube
Viral Marketing needs New Marketing Theories?
We all learned Philip Kotler's marketing laws. If you don't know Kotler or his theories, your job might be a vacancy soon. Or not? In Kotler's theories, the -P- for Place is key to marketing success,. But that theory is just not applicable for global......Related tags: ebay, google, jupiter_research, jurassic_park, marketers, philip_kotler, purple_cow, seth_godin, social_media, unleashing, virals, viral_cases, viral_marketing, viral_marketing_theories
Hammer Time: Will Web Videos Beat Google?
In the month August 2007, USA search engines like Google and Yahoo! handled a total of 9,8 billion search queries. So search still is the number 1 most used functionality at the world wide web. But, the tipping point is close! Soon US interne......Related tags: comscore, eyeballs, google, internet_videos_video, search_engines, search_queries, social_media, tipping_point, ugc, usa_search_engines, us_internet, viral, yahoo, youtube
What About Your Social Network Portability?
Influential bloggers from the Bay Area (SF) speculate that Google will launch a three dimensional social network still this year. The bloggers also say that this new 3D Social Network will be mashed-up with Google Earth and Google Maps. Rumors also s......Related tags: eu, facebook, google, google-api, google-earth, google-maps, hyves, iab, mma, mobile, myspace, number-portability, orkut, second_life, social-media, social-network-portability, tmobile, vodafone
Google AdSense Toolkit Skin YouTube Video's?
Recently I wrote about Google and YouTube being slow, introducing 'video ad skins' or 'branded layers' around YouTube video's Now it seems that awebsite owner can embed a special video player into his website and decide what category video's should b......Related tags: content, google, google_adsense, socialmedia, ugc, video, video_player, viral, viralmarketing, virals, youtube
Google & YouTube: One Year Later?
Today it's exactly a year ago Google shocked the world with the YouTube acquisition for $1.65 billion. Before that NewsCorp bought MySpace for $538 million. Last week we read the bullocks that Facebook would be worth over $10 billion?! I'm a holey be......Related tags: content, dailymotion, facebook, google, heavy, metacafe, ugc, viacom, video, viral, youtube
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