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16/12/2011 by
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Viral Friday: I Gave My Kids A Terrible Present

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.

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This week’s Viral Friday #1 position goes to YouTube Challenge – I Gave My Kids a Terrible Present, or “what not to give”. On the second place is Flyboard Zapata, an insane leisure product.  And #3 is for The (2015)QUILT: Fighting for an AIDS Free Generation, as this all starts with you.

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1. I Gave My Kids a Terrible Present

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Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show aired a hilarious compilation of kids receiving a terrible present. Did you ever receive junk as a present? And by that we really mean crap like a half eaten sandwich or even a rotten banana. Well the kids in the video definitely did! The video is just hilarious and would make you think – are kids these days spoiled? Apparently parents are one of the causes as moms plan to spend an average of $271 per child this holiday season. What are you spending this holiday season on your child? If you like this video you can see more at Jimmy Kimmel’s YouTube channel or look him up at Twitter. Enjoy!

2. Flyboard Zapata

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Franky Zapata, the French jet ski champion has just put together an absolutely insane leisure product: The Zapata Flyboard. This is an ingenious and deceptively simple device which bolts on to the powerful motor of a jet ski, then routes the resulting water jet through a long hose that connects to a pair of jet boots and hand-held stabilizers. The arrangement lets you fly, Iron Man style, up to 9 meters in the air – or leap headfirst through the waves like a human dolphin. After producing the promotional video Franky went for a honeymoon and the video went viral with over 2 million views in 2 weeks.

3. The QUILT: Fighting For An AIDS Free Generation

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ONE Campaign partnered up with Product RED in their recently launched campaign (2015)QUILT. ONE is a non-profit organization that fights against AIDS. Every day 1.000 babies are born with HIV. By the end of 2015 this could be near zero. We can deliver the next generation an AIDS free world. The video was uploaded on the World AIDS Day and now has more than 739.000 views. ONE can’t do it on their own, they need our help – join their cause by creating a panel on the (2015)QUILT website and be sure share it through your social networks.

4. Twitter: Yours To Discover

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With more than 100 million active users (and counting!), Twitter is more and more popular microblogging platform. And there’s still a lot to discover, on your own. Maybe also how it works? ; ) Confused? This video may be helpful, online since 7th of December with more than 460.000 views. There are some more interesting videos on Twitter’s YouTube channel and if still in doubts “to tweet or not to tweet” – this infographics should help you to decide.

5. Heineken ‘Sunrise’ #mysunrise

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The latest commercial for the “Enjoy Heineken Responsibly” initiative by Publicis Milan, which encourages people to drink within their limits in order to experience everything that the night has to offer, because “Sunrise belongs to moderate drinkers”. In this video, Heineken Legendary hero takes advantage of all the party’s opportunities in a responsible manner, and ends his night by enjoying a spectacular sunrise with the star DJ Audrey Napoleon. The female protagonist of the campaign is one of the world’s top international female DJ’s and also she features an exclusive new track called “ My Sunrise”. In one week the video reached almost 300.000 views.