Viral Friday: Cadbury Eyebrow Dance
Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 5 most popular viral videos, commercials, games or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Cadbury Eyebrow Dance. Cadbury’s Dairy Milk and their advertising agency Fallon London are back with a new TV ad that features two children performing bizarre “eyebrow dance moves” to an electro-funk soundtrack. The runner up spot is for Alphacat with Barack Obama: Single Ladies. The, according to many, best Obama impersonator by far released a parody video of Beyonce’s Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It). The Best Job In The World completes this week’s top 3. Are you looking for a new job? Tourism Queensland (Australia) might just have the job you were always looking for!
Do you want to see this week’s list from 1 to 5? Go on then, and have a look! We’d like to hear your opinion about the virals. Have fun!
1. Cadbury Eyebrow Dance
Cadbury’s Dairy Milk and their advertising agency Fallon London are back with a new TV ad that features two children performing bizarre “eyebrow dance moves” to an electro-funk soundtrack. Over 1 million people watched the commercial since it aired a week ago. Previously Cadbury and Fallon made the drumming gorilla and airport trucks ads.
(Source: Guardian)
2. Barack Obama: Single Ladies
The, according to many, best Obama impersonator by far, Alphacat, has released a parody video of Beyonce’s Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It). Almost 2.3 million people watched the spoof since Alphacat uploaded it to YouTube on 19 January. One of his other videos, in which Obama sings a parody of T.I.’s “Whatever You Like,” has racked up 1.4 million views. Alphacat’s real name is Iman Crosson, a 26-year-old Dayton, Ohio, native and dance major who started perfecting his Obama impression while working as a waiter in Manhattan. He recently moved to Los Angeles to stake out a career in Hollywood. “People told me I looked like Obama because I was the only light-skinned black guy at work”.
(Source: New York Magazine)
3. The Best Job In The World
Looking for a new job? Tourism Queensland (Australia) might just have the job you were always looking for! They are looking for someone to live on Hamilton Island of the Great Barrier Reef for six months and keep a blog telling the world why they should visit. The website, Islandreefjob.com, has had 2.3 million hits in two weeks.
(Source: Neatorama)
4. History Of The Internet
“History of the internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to file-sharing, from arpanet to internet. The clip shows a brief overview
of this history and shall animate to go on discovering the history of the internet. The video is made by Melih Bilgil as a part of his diploma and got mentioned on TIME Magazine, Fontblog, ReadWriteWeb, Netzpolitik, Basic Thinking, DE:BUG and 8ninths.
(Source: lonja)
5. Taylor Momsen Escapes Paparazzi
Nike and Taylor Momsen teamed up for the above ad. Some might know Taylor for her part in “Gossip Girl”, an American television show. The Nike brand isn’t mentioned once during the clip, with only the Nike swoosh appearing a couple of times on Momsen herself.
(Source: The Inquisitr)