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Scrabble Celebrates 60th Anniversary
The popular board game Scrabble, which is owned by Hasbro in the US and Canada and by toy maker Mattel elsewhere, is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a special website, a special limited edition and a stop-motion video. Scrabble celebrate......Related tags: 60th, alfred_mosher_butts, animation, anniversary, board, facebook, game, hasbro, james_brunot, lexiko, mattel, scrabble, scrabulous, time, video, viral, western-spaghetti, word
Viral Friday: Macy's Thanksgiving Parade
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: apple, astley, bart, bravia, chart, commercials, fart, foster, franck, friday, game, gamers, games, gaming, homer, imaginary-friends, immersion, iphone, ipod, macys, mapple, mercurial, miphone, mipod, nike, paint, pink-panter, popularity, ribery, rickroll, rickrolled, robbie-cooper, second-life, simpsons, sony, steve-jobs, steve-mobs, thanksgiving, user_generated_videos, vapor, video, viral, viral_videos, viral_video_chart, world-of-warcraft, zune
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
Heineken Launches Responsibility Campaign
On November 14th 2008, brewer Heineken has officially launched its first global internet-based responsible drinking campaign entitled 'Know The Signs', to create greater self-awareness amongst Heineken drinkers. The Crier & The Groper Throu......Related tags: alcohol, beer, campaign, cctv, crier, drinking, ebaumsworld, enjoy_heineken_responsibly, exhibitionist, facebook, fighter, groper, heineken, hyves, knowthesigns, marketing, mobile, myspace, neatorama, netlog, oddcast, responsibility, sleeper, socialmedia, video, videos, viral
Viral Friday: Single Ladies SNL Parody
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: beyonce, bike, britney-spears, cat, chart, commercials, cute, driver, droga5, friday, guitar, hero, irobot, justin-timberlake, parody, popularity, puppy-cam, roomba, saturday-night-live, shiba-inu, single-ladies, skit, smuggler, snl, spoof, streaming-video, user_generated_videos, video, viral, viral_videos, womanizer
Wanna Win An Award? Copy A Successful Viral!
Recently I came across two award-winning videos: "Parental Controls for TV Viewing" for Erotic channel Beate Uhse TV, winner at the 2008 NY Festivals Advertising Awards and The Cresta Awards 2008. And the viral "Crazy Leaders" for Amnesty Inte......Related tags: ads, advertising, adverts, amnesty, award, awards, cbs, commercial, commercials, cresta, george_bush, joint, kemper_trautmann, mahmoud_ahmadinejad, marketing, origami, ping_pong_matrix, rumsfeld, scholz-friends, shaw_people, tv, viral, virals, vladimir_putin
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
Spoof Campaign Crime Medicin Made In Sweden
Two months ago we lost a pitch for a campaign to warn Dutch consumers against buying fake and dangerous pills on the internet. Amazingly our concept was exactly the same as the concept I saw today: Crime Medicine. It's a campaign launched in Sweden t......Related tags: citizens, crime-medicin-made-in-sweden, crimemedicin.com, drugs_without_prescription, dutch_consumers, fake-pills, medical_products_agency, medicine, online-advertising, online_pharmacy, param_name, pills, pitch, prescription_drugs, press_release, spoof, spoof-campaign, sweden, swedish_medical_products_agency, swedish_population, truth, viagra, viral
Will.i.am's Obama Victory Song: It's A New Day
Black Eyed Peas rapper will.i.am is commemorating Barack Obama's historic win in the U.S. presidential election over John McCain by releasing a new song and video, called "It's A New Day", which premiered on The Oprah Winfrey Show last Friday. ......Related tags: 2008, barack_obama, black_eyed_peas, celebrities, election, music, ode, politics, president, scarlett_johansson, seal, song, songs, speech, victory, video, videos, viral, will.i.am, yes_we_can, youtube
CMO's Get Your SAP SMM Budget Line Item!
Most Chief Marketing Officers are massively tapping into social media marketing these months. They all want that golden social media marketing strategy for 2009. Well, have I got a great tip for you? Since you are all creating your 2009 budge......Related tags: 2009, budgets, budget_line, care_innovation, chief-marketing-officer, chief_marketing, cmo, communications_marketing, creativity, free_trip, global-media-budgets, internal_stakeholders, marketing-budgets, marketing_budget, marketing_sales, marketing_strategy, market_research, mediation, natural-seeding, offline_media, pr_agency, roadmap, sap, sap-budget-line-items, sap_systems, seeding, silo, smm, social-media-marketing, social_spaces, viral
The Return Of Office Linebacker Terry Tate
Terry Tate, the meanest, baddest, and downright prettiest Office Linebacker around, is back and reminds US citizens to vote. In a new series of short videos "Terry Votes", "From Russia With Love" and "Reading is Fundamental", the governor of Alaska a......Related tags: 2003, case, cases, commercial, commercials, draft_day, hypnotic, lester_speight, office_athlete, office_linebacker, reebok, return, sarah-palin, spoofs, superbowl, terrys_world, terry_tate, viral, virals, vote, voting
The Facebook Breakup
Meet Adam Rucker, a student at the University of Texas and creator of the site RuckitUp.com. Adam and Facebook have been happily together for almost 2,5 years now. But since Facebook has gone through a lot of changes recently, Adam feels like he does......Related tags: adam_rucker, breakup, facebook, mark-zuckerberg, ruckitup, social_media, twitter, video, viral, virals, web2.0
Viral Video Marketing Budgets To Increase
Feed Company, a Los Angeles-based online marketing agency, has conducted an online viral video survey of 40 executives at top U.S. creative ad agencies and media buying firms. The outcome: faced with a tough economic climate, marketers are seeking ne......Related tags: 2009, ad, agency, benchmark, brand_engagement, budget, campaign, company, feed, marketing, metrics, production, reporting, research, results, seeding, spending, success, survey, tracking, video, videos, viral, viraltracker
TheLadders $100,000 Dollar Experiment
In 2005 3M came up with a unique ambient ad campaign in Canada to promote its 3M Scotchshield security glass. The company modified a Vancouver bus shelter ad and filled the unbreakable postersite with stacks of play money, and 500 real Canadi......Related tags: 100000, 3m, 3m-scotchshield, @radical.media, ad, advert, canada, direct-mail, dollar, dollars, experiment, fallon, glass, guerrilla, job, jobs, marketing, media, money, new_york, security, social, theladders, theladders.com, video, viral
The Dark Knight Trailer Recut: Toy Story 2
Comedy site SpikedHumor.com has posted an outstanding re-cut version of the Toy Story trailer with audio and voice-overs from The Dark Knight. In the mashup, Woody (Tom Hanks) takes on the role and voice of Heath Ledger's Joker, and Buzz Light......Related tags: alfred, american_pie, animated_films, batman, bruce_wayne, buzz, christian_bale, comedy, dark, disney, heath_ledger, horror, joker, lightyear, lucius_fox, mashup, morgan-freeman, movie, night, recut, remix, spikedhumor, spoof, spoofs, story, the_shining, top_gun, toy, video, videos, viral
Wii Wario Land: Shocking YouTube Experience?
YouTube finally seems to have shaken up it's advertising possibilities. And that's about time. A few months ago we saw the YouTube annotation Interactive Card Trick that shook up social media communities. Below you can experience a new 'shaken not st......Related tags: 2pac, annotation, annotations, demo-annotations, demo-youtube, interactive-video, nintendo-wii, possibilities, video, video-annotations, viral, wario-land, wario-land-shake-it, wii, youtube, youtube-annotations
Shaggy's Greatest Hits Album Virally Promoted
It is a promotional piece for the launch of Shaggy's greatest hits album, out recently. This funny viral is created by Japanese Soldiers. See viral video Shaggy Mr. Boombastic... So far the clip was being watched 3.000 times at YouTube, but we......Related tags: album, boombastic, greatest-hits, greatest_hits, jamaica, japanese_soldiers, last_monday, launch, lyrics, music, play, popstar, promotion, reggae, shaggy, shaggy_boombastic, uk, viral
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
Cadbury Relaunches Gorilla & Trucks Ads
About a year ago Cadbury unveiled its £6.2m campaign for Dairy Milk featuring a gorilla playing the drum solo of Phil Collins' track 'In the Air Tonight'. The original Gorilla advert, launched during last year's Big Brother 8 UK final on 31st August......Related tags: ad, advert, bonnie-tyler, cadbury, fallon, gorilla, in-the-air-tonight, phil-collins, total-eclipse-of-the-heart, truck, video, viral, youtube
Nestle's Kit Kat: Chunga Championship Viral
In a first for Nestlé, a new Nestlé product variant is being launched entirely online. JWT Sydney and digital agency RMC Connect have created the digital launch for the new Kit Kat variant, Cookies and Cream. Meet the central campaign character: th......Related tags: australia, central_campaign, chunga, chunga-championships, comedian, cookies-and-cream, cookies_and_cream, cpg-brands, fmcg, hans-fagerlund, jordan, jordan-raskopoulos, jwt, kit-kat, kit_kat, launch, likeable, myspace, nestle, online-campaign, rmg-connect, sydney, teenagers, viral, viral-campaign, viral-introduction, youtube
UPC Goes UGC: Watch Beijing Together With Me
Cable, mobile and media company UPC has launched viral member-gets-member game Watch Beijing Together With Me in the Netherlands, Austria, Slowakia and Hungary. People can create their own Olympic Stadium and send friends an e-mail invitation: Watch ......Related tags: advertsing, austria, beijing, creative_agency, dvr, e_mail, full-hdtv, funny_thing, gadget_lover, games, game_watch, hdtv, hd_tv, hungary, lacomunidad, mail_promotion, member-gets-member, member_campaign, member_program, netherlands, olympic-games, olympic_games, olympic_stadium, photo_co, slowakia, socialmedia8, sport_fans, tv_commericals, tv_programs, upc, upc-campaign, upc-hdtv, user-created-cxontent, viral, viral-game
NFL & Reebok Present NFL Fantasy Files 2008
In 2006 the NFL and Reebok introduced three viral-style commercials called "NFL Fantasy Files", which ran on-air, on the web and on Globatrons in stadiums, to promote and drive traffic to NFL.com. The Fantasy File series, created by Blue Room......Related tags: american, arizona-cardinals, cleveland-browns, commercials, fantasy-files, football, greenbay-packers, houston-texans, league, new-orleans-saints, nfl, ny-jets, philadelphia-eagles, reebok, st-louis-rams, tampa-bay-buccaneers, video, videos, viral, washington-redskins, youtube
Sporting Portugal In Viral Hall Of Fame 2008
Sporting Portugal made the Marketing Sherpa Viral Hall of Fame 2008 with an interactive web ad, that made Sporting coach Paulo Bento call you back saying: come to the stadium, we need you. It reminded me of Playertalk, a similar mobile concept that A......Related tags: arsenal, arsenal-mobile, coach, football, hall_of_fame, interactive-ad, interactive_web, marketing-sherpa, marketing_sherpa, o2, o2_uk, paolo-bento, portugal, soccer, sporting, sporting-portugal, sporting_portugal, uk, viral, viral-case-study, viral-hall-of-fame
Nike+: Smart Social Media Marketing Strategy
Nike+ was born as a multi-channel, multi-sensory marriage of Apple and Nike technologies. See the video case study of the Nike+ campaign. The campaign was created by agency R/GA from New York and won a Grand Prix Cyber Lion at Cannes 2007. ......Related tags: advertising, agency, apple, cannes_lions_2007, community, community-marketing, cyber, digital, grand_prix, ipod, marketing, marriage, nike, nike+, nike-plus, nike-running, nike_campaign, r/ga, social-media, social-media-marketing, strategy, video, video_case_study, viral
Skype Laughter Chain: Spread a Little Happiness
Collaborative viral initiatives are rare, but when they surface the campaigns are highly successful. Their secret: They are simple, short (10-15 sec), easily uploaded (via webcam, video camera or mobile phone) and universal! Like football, passing al......Related tags: chain-video, chat, ebay, laugh, laughter, lol, skype, telephony, the-viral-factory, viral, voip
Adidas: Ajax Amsterdam Shirt Swap Viral
Adidas wanted to create buzz around the introduction of the new Ajax Amsterdam home shirt for season 2008-2009. Below viral commercial Ajax Shirt Swap was created by TBWA and was shot at Leidseplein in Amsterdam. The seeding is done by TBWA di......Related tags: adidas, adidas-benelux, ajax, ajax-amsterdam, ajax-shirt, ajax_amsterdam, buzz, creative-output, leidseplein, measurement, online-tracking, shirt-swap, tbwa, tracking, viral, viral-commercial, viral-tracking
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
Sumol: UGC Campaign 'Best Tricks' In Portugal
Portuguese soft drink brand Sumol has launched UGC campaign Sumol Best Tricks, to strengthen the bond and create engagement between the brand and youngsters, using video clips with skate icon Ruben Gamito and BMX star Miquel Cardoso. The main......Related tags: bmx, bmx_star, campaign_concept, extreme_sport, e_mail, media_advertising, media_campaigns, media_optimization, mindshare, miquel, miquel-cardoso, portugal, portugal_spain, ruben-gamito, seeding, self_replication, skate, sma, socialmedia8, social_origins, soft_drink, stranger, suits, sumol, sumol-best-tricks, ugc, video, video_clips, viral, viraltracker, viral_videos, youngsters
VH1: Loves Series Hyped By Social SuperPoke!
Facebook and MySpace users will find 30 new VH1-branded animated icons that are reflective of VH1 hits Flavor of Love, I Love New York and Rock of Love. VH1 taps into SuperPoke!, the ubiquitous social networking application which allows users ......Related tags: animated_icons, application_which_allows_users, facebook, facebook-poke, flavor_flav, flavor_of_love, loves-series, marathon, money, myspace, networking_application, poke, poking, reality_series, rock_of_love, romantical, short_messages, socialnetworks, social_networking, superpoke!, usa, vh1, viral, web2.0, which_allows_users, widget-applications
Surreal Kia Viral Ad Featuring Tennis God Nadal
One of the most amazing viral ad I have seen lately is from Kia Motors, featuring tennis god Nadal, playing against an alien? The weirdest bit though is this is the edited version following an initial release of this ad here which was updated......Related tags: alien, blogmonitoring, blogs-blogvorsing, cars, god, kia, kia-cars, kia-motors, kia_motors, nadal, nadal-vs-alien, param_name, rafael-nadal, tennis, viral
Microsoft Break-Up Part 2: Inspiration, anyone?
Last week we posted the trailer. Now the full movie Inspiration, anyone? is online! This time it’s not only about the movie. The movie is a trigger to get people to the Get Inspired Here site. At this site Microsoft wants to try and create a......Related tags: advertising, advertising_solutions, belgium, brand_awareness, break-up, bring-the-love-back, cannes, digital_advertising, get-inspired, inspiration, inspiration-anyone, love, marketing, media, microsoft, msn, part2, scoop, sequel, trailer, viral, viral_video
Microsoft Break-Up Part 2: Inspiration, anyone?
Do you remember Microsoft's Digital Advertising Solutions great viral video Bring The Love Back? The campaign won a Mixx Award in Belgium in the category brand awareness. Now Microsoft is showing this new trailer of The Break Up Part 2, called......Related tags: advertising, advertising_solutions, belgium, brand_awareness, break-up, bring-the-love-back, digital_advertising, inspiration-anyone, love, marketing, media, microsoft, msn, part2, scoop, sequel, trailer, viral, viral_video
Adult Swim: Save The Workers Viral Campaign
More and more entertainment companies like Paramount and Universal are discovering the power of social media and viral marketing. And they should, since there content is mostly more compelling than the TV commercials of large brands (content is still......Related tags: adult-swim, bebo, content-is-king, drug, drugs, entertainment, matt-berry, media, paramount, social-media-marketing, time-warner, uk, universal, viral, viral-marketing
Electric Eel Shock: Multi Vision YouTube Idea
Years ago Leon worked for a record label and he toured with Japanese band Electric Eel Shock. He sent me a Multi Vision YouTube idea from this band, which I had never seen before. I really was amazed by the smartness and creativity of this layered ch......Related tags: band, channel, creative_ideas, creativity, eel, ees, electric-eel-shock, electric_eel_shock, idea, interactivity, japan, japanese_band, leyers, multi-vision, multi_vision, online-video, record_label, rock, rock_experience, smartness, socialmedia8, socialmedia8.com, transamerica, viral, youtube
Warner Bros Turns Viral Marketing Into Viral
Remember Dan Ackerman Greenberg? He caused quite a stir in the online marketing community after writing a guest post on Techchrunch in which he discussed some of his underhand tactics to get videos to go viral. Later he claimed he was simply p......Related tags: dan-ackerman-greenberg, viral, viral-marketing, viralcom, viralcom-series, warner-bros
Viral Soccer Videos Launched By Umbro & Nike
Nike-owned sports brand Umbro released a viral video as the digital element of its campaign to support its 'Bring it on' football manifesto. The video features freestyle footballer John Farnworth, as well as footage of real fans at football clubs ac......Related tags: bring-it-on, campaign, clips, commercial, commercials, digital, dirty-sanchez, element, film, football, football_clubs, freestyle, john_farnworth, manifesto, new, nike, param_name, soccer, sports_brand, survey, umbro, video, videos, video_features, viral, viral-s, virals, viral_video, wayne-rooney
Sock Puppets Promote Iceland Express
Iceland's low fare airline Iceland Express, based in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavík, has launched a new fun viral campaign called "Iceland Socks", involving a rag-tag bunch of loudmouth sock puppets with questionable taste in clothing. Vi......Related tags: airline, blue_lagoon, gogogic, iceland, iceland_express, iceland_socks, low_fare_airline, socks, tourist_attractions, viral, viral_game
Unilever: The Rising Star In Social Media?
Unilever seems really dedicated to integrate viral commercials and social media succesfully into it's marketing approach? In this item we will show you an overview of Unilever's viral campaigns. Already in 2006 Unilever's Axe used the pretty ......Related tags: axe, branding, campaign, dove, dove-evolution, dove-onslaught, friendster, games, internet-commercials, myspace, rexona, s, social, strategy, unilever, viral, virals
New York Pizza: Damn Fucking Tasty!
Dutch Pizza chain New York Pizza, founded in 1993 and one of the Netherlands fastest growing pizza delivery chains, has launched an integrated advertising campaign with three short 'mafia style' films featuring flour, tomato sauce and a pizza deliver......Related tags: advertising, branding, cocaine, commercials, damn_fucking_tasty, dominos, forrest_gump, mafia, netherlands, new_york_pizza, ny_pizza, pizza, richard_dalessandro, scarface, seeding, selmore, tony_montana, tv_campaign, video, viral
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
Cadbury's Airport Trucks Released
The follow-up to the hugely successful Cadbury's Gorilla advert, 'Trucks' by Fallon's director Juan Cabral and Blink Productions, has been released online. The commercial wil air later today on TV. The music in the much-anticipated sequal is Queen's ......Related tags: advertising, airport_luggage, airport_trucks, big_brother_8_uk, cadbury, dairy_milk_chocolate, fallon, gorilla_advertisement, juan_cabral, phil_collins, sequal, video, viral, youtube
Jessica Alba Stars In IBeatYou Lip Dub Viral
Pregnant actress Jessica Alba (Jay_eh) had a little fun over the weekend popping up in a promo for a new social networking site IBeatYou (IBY inc.), co-owned by her fiancé Cash Warren and his basketball player friend Baron David. The online ......Related tags: actress, baron_david, cash_warren, fantastic_four, hollywood, iby_inc, i_beat_you, jessica_alba, lip_dub, myspace, nine_in_the_afternoon, panic_at_the_disco, sin_city, video, viral
Cadbury Gorilla Sequel Set To Air This Saturday
London-based Cadbury, the world's largest candy maker, has revealed imagery of its sequel to the Dairy Milk 'Gorilla' advertisement. The much-anticipated and long-awaited follow-up to Cadbury's highly successful 2007 ad, viewed over than 10 million t......Related tags: advertising, airport_luggage, airport_trucks, big_brother_8_uk, cadbury, dairy_milk_chocolate, fallon, gorilla_advertisement, juan_cabral, phil_collins, sequal, video, viral, youtube
Widgeridoo: Why Widgets Work For Branding?
In this item you'll be able to learn all about the power of viral widgets, what brands are using widgets and what do widgets cost? The didgeridoo is a wind instrument of the Indigenous Australians. Didgeridoo is sometimes described as a natural w......Related tags: actress, baron_david, cash_warren, fantastic_four, hollywood, iby_inc, i_beat_you, jessica_alba, lip_dub, myspace, nine_in_the_afternoon, panic_at_the_disco, sin_city, video, viral
American Politics Same As Dutch Recruiters?
They both use online video to reach their goal. Online video and the internet has been used a lot in this year's American presidential election. For example, Mike Huckabee made use of internet cult hero Chuck Norris to promote his campaign. Barack......Related tags: barack, campaign, chuck-norris, clinton, huckabee, obama, online-video, politics, recruitment, viral
Judson Laipply Announces Evolution of Dance 2
Judson Laipply, creator and dancer of the #1 Most Viewed (All Time) Video Evolution of Dance on YouTube, has confirmed Evolution of Dance II will be released soon in partnership with Sonos Inc., the leading developer of wireless multi-room music syst......Related tags: dance, elvis_presley, evolution_of_dance, facebook, gary-brolsma, internet_celebrity, judson_laipply, madonna, mc_hammer, michael_jackson, music, myspace, numa_numa, sequal, sonos, tay_zonday, thriller, video, viral, vogue, where_the_hell_is_matt, youtube
MyDeco Scores With Viral Facebook Widgets
Viral and Digital agency TAMBA from the UK have recently launched the first of a series of Facebook widgets for mydeco, a customisable interior design website that lets users plan their own room designs using 3D models, created by the founders of las......Related tags: adds, agencies, api, apps, desgin, design, digital, ers, facebook, founder, furniture, knowing, lastminute, launch, model, mydeco, photos, retailer, s, series, tamba, uploading, users, viral, web2.0, widget, widgets
Coca Cola Launches 'The Coke Zero Game' Viral
Coca Cola launched the Coke Zero Game in Germany and Spain. Now the Coke Zero Game is now also available in English. Coca Cola is launching this campaign around the EUFA EURO 2008. The Coke Zero Game takes way to much time in loading the game......Related tags: animation, campaign, coca-cola, cocacola, cokezerogame, commercials, football, game, games, gaming, germany, heineken, launch, s, soccer, spain, star-final, uefa-champions-league, video, viral, youtube
Social Media Help Virgin's Climate Change Fund
At Virgin Money they've launched a new campaign to promote the Virgin Climate Change Fund. This is an investment fund which invests into high performing shares, and filters out those with a poor carbon footprint. So people that invest money, can do a......Related tags: advertising, agencies, animations, branded, branding, campaign, creative, digital, environment, flickr, glue-london, marketer, marketing, money, omd, optimization, origami, s, smo, social, viral, viralblog, virgin, yahoo, youtube
EyeBuyDirect.com Boosts Webtraffic With UGC
How to use UGC and social networks to boost website traffic? Just look at the smart social media strategy of online eyeglass retailer EyeBuyDirect. Traffic at EyeBuyDirect.com has increased between 10% and 15% since the online discount eyegl......Related tags: eyebuydirect, eyeglasses, eyewear, hessel, smo, socialmedia, soical-networks, strategy, ugc, ugc-bgc, usergenerated-content, viral
Californication 'Guerrilla Bra Invasion' In Milan
Rebellious TV series Californication will be broadcasted as per March 6 in Italy by Sky Channel. To create buzz around this introduction the Bra Invasion guerrilla campaign was launched in Milan and Rome. Astonished citizens in Milan and Rome ex......Related tags: bra, californication, californication-guerrilla-bra-invasion-in-milan, guerrilla-campaign, italy, milan, rome, sky-channel, viral, viral-videos, women
Clustarack Uses Tried and Tested Technique
First things first....what the hell is Clustarack? Exactly my first thought when I saw the company name. Basically, they have invented something extremely simple, yet effective for what they claim to be a re-occurring problem in the printing industry......Related tags: clustarack, croquet, guinness, honda, printing, viral
NPCA Goes Viral: Elect A Bear For President
NPCA's new campaign is tapping into the US elections with a smile. And is using viral videos and social media in a smart way. NPCA hopes to get the candidates to address national park issues while on the campaign trail. The National Parks Conserv......Related tags: animals, bear, humor, launch, myspace, national-parks-conservation-association, npca, petition, politics, president, teddy-mather, ugc, us, us-elections, viral, virals, y&r, youtube
Unscrew America: Teaching US Teens On Energy
I just got a tip about a new viral campaign called Unscrew America. It's a new youth-targeted campaign to get people to switch out their old lightbulbs. Campaign goal is to inform people about energy-efficient CFLs and LEDs - and also make sure peopl......Related tags: al-gore, animal, animals, animation, banking, campaign, content, design, energy, film, inconvenient-truth, knowing, photos, teens, unscrew-america, us, usa, video, videos, viral, virals
Viral Friday: iBand
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 go......Related tags: audi, cheetos, commercial, durex, iband, ikea, iphone, mcdonalds, modu, nike, spoof, tele2, video, viral
MINI Cooper: Counter Counterfeit Commission
Yes it's an old skool UGC Viral campaign from Crispin Porter + Bogusky again, this time for MINI Cooper. I just needed to add this to our viral library. In this campaign you will see how the Counter Counterfeit Commission is dedicated to put ......Related tags: advertising, auto, automotive, buzz, campaign, car, cars, ccc, counterfeit_mini_cooper, counter_counterfeit_commission, cp+b, criminals, crispin-porter, crispin_porter, injustice, international_law_enforcement, marketing, mini, mini-cooper, mini_cooper, old, old_skool, ugc, uploading, user-created-content, victimization, viral, virals
Red Bull: UGC Concept Flugtag Flight Lab
We do like hilarious UGC material, but we are mainly looking for compelling BGC (brand generated content) concepts and virals. Brands like Virgin Mobile, Virgin Atlantic and Burger King are a great catch for us, since they have lots of guts and thus ......Related tags: bgc, branded, branding, bull, burger-king, campaign, content, fun, guts, jeep, knowing, launch, mtv, redbull, ugc, user, users, viral, virals, virgin
Burger King: Whopper Freakout Viral Movies
Again a great concept by the Miami creative hotshop Crispin Porter + Bogusky. In just a few years, the CP+ B team have really revitalized the Burger King brand in a rebellious way. An eye-opener for many agencies and brand managers. Burger Ki......Related tags: agencies, branded, branding, brand_managers, burger-king-crispinporter, burger_king, buzz, b_team, cp+b, crispin_porter_bogusky, eye_opener, freakout, freaks, free-pr, free_zone, guerrilla, hidden_cameras, marketing, movie, strong_products, uploading, video, videos, viral, virals, whopper, whopper-free, whopperfreezone, _hotshop
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
Visible Measures Acquires Vidmeter Inc.
Boston-based Visible Measures, a technology startup specializing in measuring the behavior of Internet video audiences, has announced the acquisition of Vidmeter Incorporated. Vidmeter, launched in 2007 by San Diego based Holt Labs, provides i......Related tags: acquisition, holt_labs, startup, video, videos, video_analytics, video_sharing_sites, video_tracking, vidmeter, vidmetrix, viral, virals, viral_video_chart, visible_measures
Philips: Shave Your Nuts With The Bodygroom?
Philips has never been famous for launching great consumer marketing. But the Philips viral campaign Shave Everywhere promoting the Bodygroom was very compelling and it took a lot of guts. Look at below viral commercial and see how the Philips Bod......Related tags: bodygroom, consumer_marketing, guts, male, male-video, men, nuts, param_name, penis, philips, philips_bodygroom, sex, shave, shave-everywhere, viral, viral-campaign, viral-commercial, viral-video, wilkinson
Berlitz Launches Viral Commercial Transsexual
Berlitz Language School has launched a viral commercial again. It's called Transsexual and is created by Grey Advertising in Tel-Aviv. Earlier we wrote about the hilarious I want to Fuck you in The Ass viral by Soesman Languague. And about the ......Related tags: advertising, berlitz, berlitz_language_school, campaign, commercial, commercials, grey-advertising, grey_advertising, language, launch, new, russia, sex, soesman, tel_aviv, transsexual, viral, viral-commercial, virals
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
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
The Official 2008 Web 2.0 Buzzword Forecast
You can become the 2008 buzzword wizard! Just learn about Wombagging? This exercise tries to protect, or sandbag, your brand from negative or undesirable word of mouth. Conversational tracking might be a must have for your brand? Improving your produ......Related tags: 2008-wizard, axe, blog, blog-groveling, blogs, branded, buzz, ceo, clickz, consumers, content, conversational-tracking, dove, dove-onslaught, knowing, lipsmacking!, micro-tubing, new, online, the-official-2008-web-2.0-buzz-forecast, video, videos, viral, viral-marketing, wom, womma, you-can-become-the-2008-buzzword-wizard!-just-learn-about-wombagging
X-Mas 2007: Time For Some Social Shopping?
It's almost X-Mas and consumers around the globe will spend billions and billions buying food and gifts. If consumers need extra money to shop till they drop, they can visit eBay Neigborhoods, social lending sites like Zopa, other Peer2Peer Banks or......Related tags: banking, banks, billions_and_billions, branded, ceo, clickz, consumers, e-commerce, ebay, epinions, extra_money, heidi-cohen, interview, kaboodle, lending, marketers, money, neigbourhoods, network, networks, opinions, peer2peer, shopping, stylefeeder, thisnext, viral, virals, virgin, wikipedia, x-mas, zopa
Mary & Joseph Do The Green Thing
X-mas thoughts are overtaking the Internet. So is Green Thing, a not-for-profit online community that lectures each month in an inspiring and entertaining way. Check out December's viral guerrilla video to see how Mary and Joseph did the green thin......Related tags: artists, communities, community, content, designers, directors, ebay, green-thing, growing-community, guerilla-marketing, guerrilla, internet, jospeh, marketing, mary, musicians, new, old, online, param_name, s, sold, s_green, things, viral, viral-commercial, virals, writers, x-mas, xmas, youtube
Peer2Peer & Social Banks: Show Me The Money!
At December 12, 2007 MIT Club Northern California is doing a Panel Discussion on Social Lending in Palo Alto San Francisco. I really would like to go but can't. And if Richard Branson taps into peer2peer banking or social lending, banks should at lea......Related tags: advertising, banking, banks, citibank, cuba-gooding-jr, dell, ing, ingdirect, jerry-maguire, p2p, peer2peer, social-lending, viral, viralblog, web2.0, zecco, zopa
Dr Pepper: Cherry Chocolate Rain Viral ft. Tay
This is hot and fresh from the press, thanks to a tip in our network. Dr Pepper added the new viral music video Cherry Chocolate Rain to YouTube November 28, 2007. The music video is starring Internet icon Tay and Mista Johnson. With this hilaric vir......Related tags: cherry_chocolate, chocolate_beverage, def-jam, dr-pepper:-cherry-chocolate-rain-viral-ft.-tay, dr_pepper, free-mp3, internet_icon, mista-johnson, mp3, music-video, music_video, old_skool, orange_juice, tay, true_entertainment, viral, viral-commercial, viral-commercials, walkin_in_the_rain, youtube
Virgin Atlantic: Great Viral Airline Commercial
Follow the path of a major British success story Virgin Atlantic, founded by powerhouse Sir Richard Branson. Virgin Atlanctic started with a leased jumbo and has become the UK's second largest long haul airline. Time and time again captain Ri......Related tags: airline_time, brand_managers, branson_virgin, captain_richard, commercials, contact, dna, follow_the_path, jumbo, long_haul, marketing_team, mvno, powerhouse, richard-branson, richard_branson_virgin, sir_richard_branson, take_a_closer_look, viral, viral-commercials, viral-marketing, virals, virgin-challenger, virgin_atlantic, virgin_challenger, virgin_group, virgin_mobile, wired_nextfest, wired_nextfest_2006
Sexy Mascha Vang Strips For Good Cause
Mascha Vang, a hot model and sex expert from Denmark, stars in the newest viral for the Danish cancer foundation "Kræftens Bekæmpelse", to warn against the dangers of tanning. "People need to know how dangerous it is to go to a tanning salon. I've ......Related tags: blonde, cancer, cancer_foundation, candid_camera, commercial, denmark, hidden_camera, hot_model, mascha_vang, sex_expert, solarium, video, viral, virals
Spanish Wonderbra Viral in Elevator
After the Wonderbra outdoor advertising malfunction viral, the Wonderbra Coffin ad and the great Wonderbra vs Cadbury spoof with Jentina Chapman, the lingerie fashion label has come up with another great and funny viral, created by Euro RSCG Barcelo......Related tags: viral, wonderbra
Philips: Viral Taps Into Domino Day?
The crazy Dutch try to improve the world record at Domino Day each year. But last attempt failed with 'only' 3.671.465 stones that fell. This old skool Philips viral commercial tapped into the Domino Day phenomenon with a simple but cool viral co......Related tags: domino, domino-day, dominoday-2007, domino_day, last_attempt, old-skool, old_skool, param_name, phenomenon, philips, record, viral, viral-commercials, virals, world-record, world_record, youtube
Honda: Viral Choir Commercial And Viral Spoof?
Choirs can be a hit creating viral commercials. Certainly this viral Victoria Bitter commercial is great. Honda launched this commercial with a choir. But sometimes users tap into viral commercials and create their own commercial. And so did......Related tags: choir, choirs, commercials, commercvial, honda, honda-commercial, honda-spoof, spoof, vb, vb-viral, victoria, victoria-bitter, victoria_bitter, viral, viral-commercial, youtube
OfficeMax Relaunches Elf Yourself
Elf Yourself will return in 2009. Read all about it! Last month we announced the popular holiday viral of OfficeMax would return any time soon. The wait is over! One of the most popular holiday websites from last year has launched again! This time......Related tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Banc de Sang i Teixits: Best Bloody Viral Ever?
The Banc de Sang i Teixits is a regenerative medicine research centre from Catalonia Spain. They are specialists in immunobiology, molecular analysis, research a lab and a bloodbank. I understand your assumption: "Probably boring as hell and not vira......Related tags: assumption, banc-de-sang-i-teixits, banc_de_sang, blood, bloodbank, buzz, buzz-pr, catalonia, catalonia_spain, dna, kiss_principle, medicine_research, million_years, molecular_analysis, online-video, regenerative_medicine, spain, top10-viral, viral, viral-commercial, viral-marketing, viral-video, virals
Angry Kid: British Wanker Brat Hits BBC3?
Did you happen to see Angry Kid? Is a series of stop motion animations from Darren Walsh at Aardman Animations, depicting the mini-adventures of a 15 year old British brat with an attitude problem. Yes Sir, British humor and most of the episodes cont......Related tags: angry-kid, animations, australia, bbc, bbc3, butt-plug, comedy, content, film, knowing, mobile, movie, online-video, series, viral, viral-movies, wanker
Viral Friday: Ron Paul This November 5th
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 week's Viral Friday #1 position g......Related tags: advertising, cadbury, chart, clips, commercial, commercials, gorilla, internet, video, videos, viral, wonderbra, youtube
Cadbury's Gorilla vs Sexy Wonderbra Model
Last week I wrote an article about CadBury's Drumming Gorilla. This morning I came across this well done spoof on Besserwerberblog. 20 year old Wonderbra model and singer Jentina Chapman is drumming like the Cadbury Gorilla. I like it! YouTube user b......Related tags: bra, cadbury, commercial, gorilla, in_the_air_tonight, jentina_chapman, model, phil_collins, spoof, video, videos, viral, wonderbra, youtube
Winds of Change: Kodak Finally Getting Digital?
Kodak was the company that really missed the digital era. It built factories in Asia producing traditional 'photo rolls', while the whole world was switching to digital camera's. Missing this trend was a strategic mistake that costed Kodak many jobs ......Related tags: banned-video, kodak, spies, spy, video, viral, viral-commercial, viral-spy, winds-of-change, youtube
Victoria Bitter: Great Stubby Symphony Viral?
Recently we promised our community to tap into more beer virals. Well, we have found a new beer viral for you. See how the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra takes a challenge to play a concert at VB Stubby's! It's great storytelling and will certainly en......Related tags: 360, applaud, australia, beer, bv, campaign_source, creative_agency, melbourne, melbourne-symphony-orchestra, melbourne_symphony_orchestra, micro_website, remix_competition, storytelling, stubby, symphony, tap, vb, victoria-bitter, victoria_bitter, viral, viral-campaign, viral-commercial, viral-marketing, virals, viral_marketing
Wahnsinn! OBI Hammer Juggling
A viral video for hardware store OBI is a huge hit in Germany with over 4 million viewers in 3 weeks, according to Hamburg based viral company DSG Dialog Solutions. Although the video is somewhat difficult to follow for non-German speaking intern......Related tags: break, dsg_dialog_solutions, germany, hammer_guy, juggling, metacafe, myspace, trick, video, viral, youtube
Wilkinson: Fight For Kisses Viral Game
Wilkinson understands it. Check their viral concept Fight For Kisses. Dad is fighting to get kisses from Mom. But the Baby is fighting back. Great viral trailer, strong micro-website, okay R&B beat and fun game. I think this is brand activation worth......Related tags: brand-activation, dad, digital-branding, fight-for-kisses, fighting_back, kisses, media, micro_website, mom, online-advertising, viral, viral-game, viral-trailer, virals, wilkinson
Blaupunkt: Pimp My Ride Viral Commercial
Do you remember when Blaupunkt was one of the leading car audio brands? 19 years ago I got my drivers license and bought a very old VW Golf (1200 Euros) with a Blaupunkt car stereo in it. It's like the Blaupunkt brand had vanished last ten years? You......Related tags: audio, audio_brands, blaupunkt, blaupunkt_car_stereo, branded, car, car_audio, commercial, commercials, drivers_license, internet, internet_commercials, launch, mtv, new_approach, new_strategy, pimp, pimp-my-ride, pimpin, pimp_my_ride, revitalizing, ride, spice, vanished, viral, virals, vw_golf, weapons_of_mass_affection
P&G Febreze: 'What Stinks' In Facebook Viral?
Lately I notice that more and more brand managers are complaining: "It's so difficult to reach screenagers 18-24 years". When I ask them:"What % of your media-mix are you spending online"? Mostly their answer is:" well, this year about 4-5% of our to......Related tags: 24_years, always, brand_managers, budget, febreze, game, games, gaming, habbo-hotel, marketer, media, p&g, pg, procter, procter-&-gamble, tweak, us, viral, viral-marketing, virals, what_stinks
Viral on Veoh: The Smart Show
Just discovered "Viral on Veoh". The California-based company goes behind the scenes of internet television. In the episode you're about to see, Veoh goed behind the webseries of The Smart Show, the first cross-country daily webshow driven by Holid......Related tags: flea_market_montgomery, holiday_inn_express, sammy_stephens, sunny_gault, the_smart_show, veoh, viral, webshow, web_series
Drumming Gorilla Fuels Cadbury's Rise In Sales
At the end of August Cadbury UK unveiled a £6.2m campaign for Dairy Milk featuring a gorilla playing the drum solo of Phil Collins' track 'In the Air Tonight'. The ad debuted during the 'Big Brother 8 UK' final on 31st August 2007. Bloggers have......Related tags: big_brother_8, cadbury, chocolate-bars, dairy_milk, drumming-gorilla, fallon-uk, in_the_air_tonight, juan_cabral, phil_collins, viral, youtube
Reebok: Viral Webisode Terrible Terry Tate?
An old skool and trend setting viral webisode by Reebok. See how 'Office Linebacker' Terrible Terry Tate demolishes many co-workers. This viral is a collector's item. This great webisode also contains Terry Tate Vacation, Sensitivity Training and......Related tags: beats, co_workers, linebacker, old_skool, reebok, reebok_old_skool_viral, terry_tate, terry_tates_world?, trend_setting, viral, viral_commercials
ZaZoo Condoms: Shocking Viral Commercial?
Condom brands have great opportunties to go viral. What about this hilaric Trojan Games concept? Also this ZaZoo Condoms viral almost made me pee my panty. Will you think twice about 'having kids' if you have seen this viral commercial? Or would......Related tags: condoms, condom_brands, panty, trojan, trojan_condoms, trojan_games, viral, virals, viral_commercials, zazoo, zazoo_condoms
ING Direct: I Need To Go Interactive Viral
ING Direct has launched an interactive viral commercial with guts in Belgium. The underlying thought? On the internet everything is for free, including going to the toilet and internet banking with ING. In the press release one can read: “You n......Related tags: finance, ineedtogo, ing, ing_direct, pagerank, sem, seo, smo, viral, viral_campaign, viral_commercial, viral_game, viral_marketing
Pacific Bell: DSL Web Hog Viral Commercials
That viral commercials can be weapons of mass affection is proved by Pacific Bell with their series of viral internet commercials. The commercials are about very frustrated neighbours, that freak out while sharing the same cable line, when going onli......Related tags: bell, cable, commercials, dsl, internet, log-off, neighbours, old_skool, pacific_bell, tha_hood, viral, virals, viral_commercials, viral_marketing, weapons_of_mass_affection, web_hog, what_happens_next
Berlitz: German Coast Guard Viral Commercial?
Have you seen this viral commercial of Soesman Language? Well, let's just say that Language Institutes have great viral opportunties. Look at this hilaric Berlitz viral 'starring' the German Coast Guard. Luckily Germany’s coast is not that long ;-)......Related tags: berlitz, berlitz_language, coast_guard, german_coast, language_institutes, language_language, learn_english, soesman, soesman_language, viral, virals, viral_commercial
Unilever's Dove Onslaught Meets Backlash?
About 4 weeks ago I wrote about Dove Onslaught, the latest viral Dove commercial launched by Unilever. Filmmaker Rye Clifton has created a video called: 'Talk to your daughters before Unilever does'. Rye is pointing out that one company believes ......Related tags: axe, axe_bases, babes, bikini_clad, dove, dove_onslaught, evolution, filmmaker, knowing, madison_avenue, onslaught, pointing_out, unilever, viral, viraltracker, viral_commercial, viral_commercials, writhing
Soesman: F*ck You In The Ass Viral Commercial?
How a small local company can get global attention? Look at this old skool viral commercial, created by Y&R for Soesman Language Training- a small local Dutch company. It's a very low cost commercial production wise. But it's clever, witty and hilari......Related tags: global_attention, local_company, old_skool, soesman, soesman_language, viral, virals, viral_commercial, y&r
Santa Claus Kidnapped?
Although Christmas is still 2 months from now, several holiday virals are already being announced. This morning I got a short e-mail with a movie attached from Sam Stone with subject "Santa Kidnapped" and message "Is this the beginning of the end?"......Related tags: christmas, holiday, holidays, kidnap, kidnapping, mystery, santa_claus, viral, viral_campaign, xmas
The Internet Stars Are Viral
After "Viral SuperStar" by Current.TV and Dan Meth's great animated tribute to 66 Internet People, Cakke Team created another "internet meme" video called "The Internet Stars are Viral", to pay homage to ... all the viral internet super stars out t......Related tags: cakke.com, chris_crocker, david_hasselhoff, internet_hypes, internet_people, memes, miss_teen_south_carolina, viral, virals
Dell: Smart UGC Community Marketing Moves
Since the start of the internet I have been a die-hard community believer. It seems that smart eCEO Michael Dell has read this great community marketing book: Communities Dominate Brands as well? Just take a look at Michael Dell's video where he anno......Related tags: bgc, branded_content, communities_dominate_brands, community, community_marketing, content, dell, idea_storm, michael_dell, studio_dell, ugc, user, user_created_ideas, video, videos, viral
Dylan Messaging Viral Draws 600,000 Fans
Nearly 600,000 Bob Dylan fans around the world have watched the Dylan Messaging viral campaign, to promote the release of his greatest hits album DYLAN, out October 1. The Bob Dylan viral messaging campaign, launched by Sony BMG's Columbia Records an......Related tags: bob_dylan, e-card, facebook, facebook_application, greatest_hits_album, subterranean_homesick_blues, viral, viral_campaign, youtube
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
British Airways Tries To Go Viral With Pam Ann
In NewMediaAge I read that British Airways has launched a viral campaign starring spoof air stewardess Pam Ann to highlight the quality of its cabin crew. BA crews are featured working professionally while Pam Ann, played by Caroline Reid, causes hav......Related tags: agency.com, ba, british_airways, eatmail, spoof, video, viral, virals, viral_commercial, youtube
Saw IV Viral Game: Torture Victoria Beckham
Following over half a million sick tortures last year, the viral game called "The Chamber of Torture" has returned to promote the forthcoming Hollywood horror film Saw IV this Halloween. In the viral game you can torture various celebrities that a......Related tags: britney_spears, cameron_diaz, game, movie_marketing, paris_hilton, saw_4, saw_the_game, torture, victoria_beckham, viral, virals, viral_game
UK Viral Agencies: Revenues Grow 60%
UK viral agencies do well with a 60% growth of revenues. Including tracking and seeding the UK viral industry should be worth between £25m and £30m by the end of 2007. Partners from our infuential viral network in the US, Holland and Germany al......Related tags: blogs, digital_agencies, e-consultancy, social_networks, uk_agencies, united_kingdom, viral, virals, viral_agencies, viral_campaigns, viral_industry, viral_revenues
Viral Friday: Toyota World of Warcraft
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 week's Viral Friday #1 position g......Related tags: chart, clips, commercial, commercials, game, games, internet_commercials, popular, spoof, video, viral, virals, viral_chart, viral_games, wow, youtube
Cillit Bang: Barry Scott In Hilarious Viral Spoof
It's an old skool user created Cillit Bang spoof: a very viral spot! The music in this VSPOT is inspired on the old Dutch 'gabber house' culture also know as Techno, which was also extremely popular in Germany too. Check out this Barry Scott ......Related tags: barry_scott-viral_commercial, cillit_bang, germany, house-music, jakazid, music, old_skool, reckitt_benckiser, spoof, spoof-commercial, techno, tv_commercials, viral, viral-spoof, vspot
Che Guevara: Viral Brand Numero Uno?
Che Guevara, the famous socialistic revolutionary hero, disappeared at 9 October 1967. In the search for Che, his picture was spread around. His body was found back in 1997. Forty years after his disappearance Che Guevara became an icon all around th......Related tags: barcelona, che-exhibition, che-guevara, chevolution, cult, hero, icon, movie, rebel, revolution, trisha-ziff, viral, viral-brand
Volkswagen: Crazy Viral Un-pimp Series
We were all shocked and surprised in the industry. MTV created a huge buzz with it's show Pimp My Ride. Lot's of dull brands around the globe suddenly started pimping in their RTV commercials. But Volkswagen created major buzz with it's anti-t......Related tags: advertising, branded, branding, buzz, commercial, commercials, jobs, mtv, pimp, pimp-my-, pimp_my_ride, s, shocking, un-pimp, uploading, viral, viral-marketing, viral-s, virals, volkswagen, vw, your-
Virgin Mobile: Veteran In Victorious Virals
Virgin is famous for it's guts in marketing, guerrilla, buzz and viral campaigns. It's fair to say that Virgin is a Viral Veteran. Their concept of creating compelling viral commercials is putting in hip hop superstars into their productions. Rappers......Related tags: ballgame, busta-rhymes, busta_rhymes, buzz, campaigns, commercials, guerrilla, hip-hop, hip_hop, missy_elliott, superstars, text_messages, tv_campaign, viral, virals, viral_commercials, viral_marketing, virgin, virgin_mobile, webisode
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
Online Video Most Popular In The USA
More than 40% of US inhabitants watch online video's at least once a week, shows this very interesting survey Frames of Reference done by the Online Publishers Association. I've just read the survey and there's lot's of info about online video advert......Related tags: online_publishers_association, online_video, opa, ugc, video, video_content, viral
Toyota's World of Warcraft viral
World of Warcraft is a popular MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) with over 9 million players worldwide! Japanese carmaker Toyota decided to delve into WoW and created this great viral ad campaign for the Toyota Tacoma. In less ......Related tags: blizzard-entertainment, commercial, game, online_gaming, viral, virals, world_of_warcraft, wow
Sony PS3: How You Killed Your Brand
The PS series are crucial to Sony's profitability. At the Sony PS3 development and introduction the ignorant Sony marketing team and their agencies, forgot conversational tracking and refused to listen to influential gamers at game blogs and game for......Related tags: advertising_agencies, anti_ps3, anti_sony, competitor, conversational_marketing, die_hard, grp, guerrilla_marketing, loyal_fans, marketing_team, microsoft_haters, microsoft_xbox, playstation_3, product_research, product_specs, profitability, ps_series, sony_marketing, sony_playstation, sony_ps3, target, traditional_advertising, ugc, value_chain, viral, viral_video, webblogs
Dutch Cybersex Viral Goes Scandinavia
Last year Stichting Mijn Kind Online (My Child Online) and Dutch agency Youngworks had a massive viral hit with their cybersex awareness ad. With over 4 million views on MetaCafe and Youtube the message of the viral "Cybersex is ok, but only if you r......Related tags: child, cybersex, internet_safety, parents, scandinavia, viral, viral_campaign
Burger King: Subservient Chicken Case Study
It's viral old skool. But I had to post it. Since Crispin Porter's Subservient Chicken viral campaign for Burger King is one of the web's most famous examples of viral marketing in action. And for marketers that still think: can a viral really......Related tags: adweek, bk, burger-king, burgerking, burger_king, cp+b, crispin_porter_+_bogusky, marketers, old_skool, retail_sales, subservient_chicken, viral, viral_case, viral_games, viral_marketing
John West: Very Tasty Viral Commercial
For inspiration just another old skool viral commercial. This Red Salmon viral commercial by John West reached millions of internet users. In the first stage of the commercial the scenes might look very realiastic. This keeps you glued to te......Related tags: fighting_bear, inspiration, john_west, old_skool, salmon_commercial, target, tuna, viral, viral_commercials, youtube
Swedish Viral Hits Joox
Last week I enjoyed a short vacation in the land of IKEA, Husmanskost, Pippi Longstocking and with the most beautiful women in the world. Stockholm (Sweden) is a beautiful, trendy and modern city, where I did a lot of sightseeing (Gamla Stan, Vasamus......Related tags: box_experience, flying_boat, homevideo, stockholm, sweden, viral, virals
Seven Deadly Sins Of Viral Video Ads?
I stumbled upon this list of Seven Deadly Sins of advertising via viral video. The author producer Kevin Nalts took his time to describe it well. His blog Will Video For Food is a nice to read for video junkies. I really would like to add anot......Related tags: seven_deadly_sins, social_media, top_list, video, viral, virals, viral_commercials
Dove Onslaught: Will It Hit Millions Again?
The Dove Evolution viral internet commercial reached millions of women online. And I think the Dove Onslaught viral commercial will hit millions again in no time! These moral campaigns created by Ogilvy seem to have the ability to get buzz fast. And ......Related tags: dove, dove_onslaught, evolution, unilever, viral, viraltracker, viral_commercial
Own Your Own Football Club Today?
Power to the people can be very viral sometimes. But only if the idea is compelling enough. And inviting 50.000 people to own their own UK football club seems to attract a lot of fans. Fans that will tell others, to join this community as well. I rea......Related tags: communities, community, football, soccer, viral, wisdomofcrowds
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