Viral Friday: The Twilight Saga – Eclipse
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 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Trailer. This third film in the Saga opens on June 30 2010 and on 10 March a preview of the trailer aired (and got millions of views in a day). The runner up spot is for the BMW S1000 RR: Dinner for RR. BMW has this crazy superbike, the S 1000 RR, and shows how fast it is with the tablecloth trick. iPad TV Commercial completes this week’s top 3. During this year’s Oscars, the first Apple iPad television commercial was shown: a 30-second spot showing us the iPad highlights.
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1. The Twilight Sage: Eclipse Trailer
The Twilight Saga is a series of romance fantasy films based on four novels by the American author Stephenie Meyer. The third film, Eclipse, opens on June 30, 2010 and on 10 March a preview of the new Eclipse trailer was released in the Twilight YouTube channel. This 10 second preview got viewed over 4.2 million times in one day. The actual trailer (the above video) followed about a day later on 11 March and now has just over 3 million views, and therefore the Twilight: Eclipse trailer (preview) are this week’s undisputed Viral Friday number 1.
2. BMW S1000 RR: Dinner for RR
BMW has this crazy superbike, the S 1000 RR, which is incredibly fast (let BMW put 193 horsepower on two wheels and you’ll go from 0 to 60 mph in 2.9 second). So, how would BMW show you just how fast that is? With a trick! The tablecloth trick that is. Real or fake? Since 5 March over 1.3 million viewers have their opinion on it. By the way; the S 1000 RR works very well on ice as well.
3. iPad TV Commercial
During this year’s Oscars, the first Apple iPad television commercial was shown: a 30-second spot showing us the iPad highlights, featuring the song “There Goes My Love” by the Danish band The Blue Van. Photos, Maps, iTunes, iPod, Safari, Calendar, and Mail, along with iBooks, the iBookstore, and Pages, it’s all there. And will all be available on April 3rd. The commercial is doing very well on YouTube: since last Sunday it generated over 970,000 views.
4. Iron Man 2 Trailer 2
What do you get after Iron Man 1? Why, Iron Man 2 of course. With sequels you can either be pleasantly surprised or very unpleasantly. This one is looking good though, if you’re into iron suits, good guys fighting bad guys and pretty women. I’m sure the 1,688,060 YouTube viewers (since March 7) will agree. In this movie everyone knows the real identity of Iron Man and Tony Stark (his real name) is pushed to spill his invention secrets to the army. He faces the consequences when he doesn’t want to reveal his technologies.
5. Gorillaz – Stylo
The Gorillaz have a new album out and it’s called Plastic Beach. One of the songs on it is Stylo, which is accompanied by this video. It mixes reality with animation, making the Gorillaz look a lot more realistic. A very real person in the video is Bruce Willis, chasing the Gorillaz down an American desert road. The video ends on a surprising note, making the viewer wonder what will happen in the following video. Since March 1 the clip has almost 2 million views on YouTube. To be continued!
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Although I’m not a big fan of, my choice for this week goes to the iPad video.
Indeed they made a nice video out of the capacities of iPad. My only question is.. will it actually be an Apple success?
It will be interesting show-off between the iPad and Microsoft Courier if you ask me.
Also amazing to see the HUGE pick-up of Twilight Saga. Millions of views within a day.
Indeed, maybe I’m not into films well enough (or maybe it’s just the genre), but Twilight really impresses me! I still don’t know about the iPad. I like it, but I don’t… I mean, I’m very happy with my macbook, and really don’t see the need for an iPad. But at the same time I’m a gadget fan… Ah well, I don’t have the money anyway.
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