Viral Friday: Golden Loves Guitar !!

Written by Martin Michalik on January 6th, 2012 | 1 comment

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 Golden Loves Guitar !!, not only people react to music with happy or sad faces. On the second place is Fishing Under Ice, a beautiful video from Finland. And #3 is for Doritos – Make Your Own, an awesome UGC for next Super Bowl – will it be picked up?

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1. Golden Loves Guitar !!

That music makes people happy, sad, euphoric, enthusiastic, we all know this. But it seems that not only people can “feel” the music… Witness the video of Bailey, a guitar-loving golden retriever. Bailey is quite happy when Drew Arcoleo plays the guitar, keeps up with the rhythm and even “smiles”. Bailey loves the sound of guitar so much that he starts making sad faces as soon as the music stops, giving the musician a sad, vaguely irritated look. Arcoleo posted the clip just before Christmas and it already racked up over four million views on YouTube. The guitarist’s other videos haven’t done nearly as well and, in case you are wondering, he is not a Bud Light representative as he explains in the “Behind the Scenes” video!

2. Fishing Under Ice

Ever heard of a finish lake called Sääksjärvi? Guess not, but it was the place of one of the biggest viral hits from last week. 5 guys went down the frozen lake with diving equipment, a rubber duck, balloon and a wheelbarrow. The footage looks amazing and surreal. No wonder why it went over the 1,5 million views on YouTube and Vimeo. And yes they are standing with their feet to the bottom of the ice

3. Doritos – Make Your Own

Super Bowl is one of the biggest events of the year. No wonder that the commercials shown there are commercially attractive because it is watched by millions of people. Every year Doritos organizes the Crash the Super Bowl contest, a viral marketing effort. They invite the public to send in self-made Doritos commercials. The entry created by Jack & John went viral this week. We think it also has a good chance to win!

4. Controlled Quantum Levitation WipeOut

Remember Quantum Levitation? You know, the technology that actually makes things float. It made a huge break on YouTube last year. Now the Japan Institute of Science and Technology have made progress in this technology. Gamers will immediately recognize the floating cars and racing track. They recreated the Wipeout game and can actually control it as well. The video was uploaded on the 24th of December and almost has 1 million views. Will Quantum Levitated racing replace F1? Let’s see what great floating cars the future will bring.

5. Star Wars The Old Republic – Freeze Mob

Flash mobs are popular, if placed and timed properly – it’s no doubt it will become a hit. Not only at the place of action, but may become also a YouTube sensation. With such a great theme it was only a matter of time Star Wars would come up with a flash mob. And where else could it happen than on Times Square, New York City? To celebrate the launch of a new game Star Wars: The Old Republic the Jedi and Sith warriors fought in the first ever lightsaber freeze mob duel, joined by more than 100 fans. With more than 2,4 million views, it must not be missed. For more videos check the Star Wars The Old Republic YouTube channel. May the force be with you!

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