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12/12/2014 by
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Top 5 Videos In Viral Friday: #YouTubeRewind

Viral video marketing used to be an art, now it’s a science. We curate the millions of videos that are uploaded every week. In our flagship format Viral Friday we show you the top 5 viral videos.


This week, we selected the following video top 5 for you… Enjoy and share.

1. Google “YouTube Rewind: Turn Down for 2014”

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2014 is nearly over. Time for many internet media outlets to put 2014 in retrospective, including Google’s YouTube. This year’s special recap is completely jam-packed with almost 100 stars. The six-minute flashback features YouTubers like Kid President and Michelle Phan, late night TV hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Conan O’Brien and many more! Uploaded on Tuesday, this week’s number one has been watched 31 million times on YouTube with 160,000 social shares.
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2. UPS “Your Wishes Delivered: Driver for a Day”

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UPS has launched Your Wishes Delivered, a campaign inviting customers to share their wishes during the holidays and for every wish shared, the courier company will donate a dollar to one of three charities. To promote the campaign UPS created a heartwarming holiday video together with Ogilvy & Mather, featuring a little boy with dreams of becoming a UPS driver. With 37 million views and 1.1 million social shares on YouTube and Facebook since December 1st, it certainly has touched the hearts of millions.
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3. Paramount “Terminator Genisys”

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Arnold Schwarzenegger is back! The fifth film in the franchise, entitled Terminator Genisys, is set in the year 2029. John Connor, leader of the resistance continues the war against the machines. The upcoming science fiction movie is scheduled for release on July 1st, 2015. The former governor of California revealed the first official trailer on Thursday December 4th on his Facebook page. And was available for fans for questions. The Terminator teaser has accumulated 30 million views on YouTube and Facebook.
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4. Victoria’s Secret “Angels Lip Sync: Shake It Off”

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This year, the Victoria’s Secret Angels decided to lip-sync Taylor Swift’s chart-topper “Shake It Off”, as Taylor was one of the four main performers in London along with Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande and Hozier. The promotional video features Adriana Lima, Alessandra Ambrosio, Behati Prinsloo, Candice Swanepoel, Doutzen Kroes, Karlie Kloss and Lily Aldridge. With 4 million views and 136,000 shares on Twitter and Facebook it’s this week’s number 4 in our viral video chart.
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5. Air Canada “Gift of Home for the Holidays”

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Last but not least: another heartwarming charitable act: “Gift of Home for the Holidays” by Air Canada. Air Canada representatives visited a Canadian expat bar The Maple Leaf in London in The United Kingdom, and surprised all the Canadians there with round-trip flights back home for the holiday season. The advert has garnered 2.5 million views so far and shared around 50,000 times on social media.
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