Viral Friday: Drunk Pole Dancing Gone Wrong
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 week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to Drunk Pole Dancing Gone Wrong. Heineken scores a big hit this week with a viral for their global responsible drinking campaign Know The Signs. The runner up spot is for Face-Off With A Deadly Predator. Paul Nicklen is a photographer for National Geographic who came face-to-face with one of Antarctica’s most vicious predators. Pigeon: Impossible completes this week’s top 3. After nearly 5 years, writer and director Lucas Martell is finally done with this first attempt at animation.
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1. Drunk Pole Dancing Gone Wrong
Heineken scores a big hit this week with its global responsible drinking campaign Know The Signs. The campaigns includes the above video in which a wedding is ruined by a drunk girl. Starting last Monday the video spread rapidly around the web leading to over 2 million views in just four days and an appearance in MSNBC’s ZeitGeist show. All videos used for the campaign can be found in the Know The Signs YouTube channel. Read more about the campaign in Nicole’s post from last Wednesday.
2. Face-Off With A Deadly Predator
Paul Nicklen is a photographer for National Geographic, making the most amazing books, like his most recent “Polar Obsession“. For another project Paul wanted to get in the water with the Leopard Seal, the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic. In this video Paul tells about his experience when he came face-to-face with one of Antarctica’s most vicious predators. The video got over 1 million views since November 12 and got posted on sites like The Huffington Post, Boing Boing and Gizmodo.
3. Pigeon: Impossible
After nearly 5 years, writer and director Lucas Martell is finally done with this first attempt at animation. The result is the Pixar-quality 6-minute short “Pigion: Impossible” about Walter Beckett, a junior CIA agent, who receives a briefcase that controls a nuclear missile. The hand-off goes smoothly, until a pigeon gets trapped inside. Amazing visuals and a good soundtrack show the work of nearly one-hundred talented artists and musicians, be sure to check out how they did it. The video generated more than 780,000 in 12 days.
4. Space Chair Project
Though it looks quite simple to hoist up a chair into the sky using a helium balloon, this video has lots of awesome aspects to it. Everything was shot using Toshiba HD cameras. Toshiba and Grey London wanted to show that with the new Toshiba LCD TV you can get better armchair viewing with sharp images. The chair was lifted into the air up to 98,268 feet (almost 30 kilometers). They broke the record of the highest commercial ever filmed. Look here and here for more awesomeness, the making of and to see why this video got 405,855 views since last Monday.
5. Microsoft Store Breaks Out Into Song
This week Microsoft launched a viral video. In Microsoft’s recently opened Mission Viejo Store, employers burst into ’spontaneous’ dancing to the Black Eyed Peas. In the blogosphere the opinions on the video differentiate, but the words awkward, embarrassing and cheesy stand out. Watch the video and be your own judge… After only four days on YouTube the video got 496.847 views. So despite of, or thanks to, all the comments, the video is viral.
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I really like Pigeon Impossible, and amazing to see what happens with the Heineken viral!
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