Viral Friday: OK Go – This Too Shall Pass
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 OK Go – This Too Shall Pass. Rock band OK Go released their latest video clip last Monday. The runner up spot is for the Chuck Liddell’s Exercise. You have to have some balls to sneak up to mixed martial arts fighter Chuck Liddell’s house and film him and his girlfriend while exercising. Naked. Pedigree Dogs completes this week’s top 3. To promote their dog food in Canada Pedigree teamed up with TBWA\Toronto who created this compilation of flying dogs.
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1. OK Go – This Too Shall Pass
The undisputed number 1 this week. Rock band OK Go (if you’re not familiar with their music you probably are with their biggest hit “Here It Goes Again“) released their latest video clip last Monday. When we wrote about it on Tuesday it already had 100,000 views and now it has over 3.3 million. The video, just under four minutes long, is a one shot video of a Rube Goldberg machine. The machine was built by Syyn Labs, a Los Angeles-based arts and technology collective.
2. Chuck Liddell’s Naked Exercise
You have to have some balls to sneak up to mixed martial arts fighter Chuck Liddell‘s house and film him and his girlfriend while exercising. Naked. Oh wait, they’re not completely naked, they’re wearing Reebok shoes. Turns out the Iceman and his girl agreed to do the revealing workout for a viral campaign for Reebok. The video spreads around the net rapidly (check the many duplicates on YouTube) and has now almost 850,000 views since it was discovered a week ago.
3. Pedigree Dogs
To promote their dog food in Canada Pedigree teamed up with TBWA\Toronto who created the above ad. The video was shot with Vision Research’s Phantom camera, which is capable of filming at any frame rate from 1 to 1,000 fps, in HD. The video has almost 700,000 views since it was uploaded to YouTube on 22 February. We wonder if the guys at TBWA got inspired by Vitalic‘s Poney Part 1 video.
4. Tahiticora Playing Video Games
This must be the ultimate guys’ dream: a woman sitting on a chair, scarcely dressed, playing an Xbox video game. While most blogs just feature the video and some drooling comments, Geekosystem has actually looked past the content and into the person featured. Her name is Coralie Teraiefa and she is a model who loves the Xbox. Apparently it’s not part of a campaign for Xbox but if they know what’s good for them they’d better claim this video right now! The video has almost 500,000 views since 19 February.
5. Halo Reach Multiplayer Trailer
On May 3rd the Mulitplayer Beta for Halo Reach will see the light of day. On Tuesday Taiwanese site GNN leaked the trailer version resulting in release of the official trailer by Bungie and Microsoft, just the next day. The trailer provides the fans footage of the multiplayer mode in action. So, a real treat for the fans. The video was uploaded to YouTube on March 3rd and got 340,411 views already. And everyone owning a copy of Halo 3: ODST is invited to join in on the beta version.
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My choice of this week is going for the Pedigree Dogs.. I just love videos in slow motion, and when they are really good like this one it just blows my mind! simple but really engaging in my opinion.
Must say I also really like Pedigree. Simple but yet so effective.
Yep, but the pedigree video is clearly a rip off so I do’nt think its very original, off course it is indeed creative
Pedigree’s the winner for me. May be a rip off, but has got all the elements to spread and love!
Are you all blind? Are do you prefer jumping dogs instead of a nice butt?
No, Pedigree has indeed a beautiful commercial..