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22/02/2008 by
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Viral Friday: iBand

Viral Friday is the weekly viral video chart of ViralBlog, showing the 10 most popular viral videos, commercials or user-generated videos, carefully selected and ranked by popularity, viral impact & spread.
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This weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to iBand. With the release of several musical iPhone applications it becomes easier to convert your Apple iPhone into a true instrument! And with instruments come bands, hence iBand! The runner up spot is for Ronald McDonald Insanity. A strange Japanese McDonald’s mashup video starring mascot Ronald rapidly spreads around the internet. With The Beatboxin’ Dog Tele2 Sweden completes this week’s top 3. Advertising agency Forsman & Bodenfors created this very funny sampler concept to recruit new customers.

Do you want to see this week’s list from 1 to 10? Go on then, and have a look! We’d like to hear your opinion about the virals. Have fun!


1. iBand

With the release of several musical iPhone applications it becomes easier to convert your Apple iPhone into a true instrument! Not long ago a guitar application was released, followed by iAno, a piano application for the iPhone. iBand members Marina Dell’mour, Roland Dell’mour and Sebastian Wöber combined iAno and Pocketguitar with the Elektroplankton for the Nintendo DS to compose the world’s first iPhone composition. The video is a huge viral success with 1.2 million views, 10.000+ comments, 11.000 ratings and almost 13.000 bookmarks. (Source: Tech.co.uk, iPhoneclub)

2. Ronald McDonald Insanity

Since early 2008 a strange Japanese McDonald’s mashup video featuring mascot Ronald McDonald is spreading over the internet. Via Japanese videoportal Nicovideo.jp, where the video quickly generated 500.000 views, 115.000 comments and numerous spoofs, the skit found it’s way to the Western world. Several portals where the Japanese video appears are YouTube (1.1 million views), AOL Videoblog, Boing Boing,SF Weekly and Werbeblogger.

3. The Beatboxin’ Dog

Advertising agency Forsman & Bodenfors created a very funny sampler concept to recruit new customers for Tele2 Sweden, one of Europe’s biggest telecommunications operators. The result? A beatboxing dog! With a few keys you control the dog’s movements to create your own unique soundloop! Press ‘space’ to start recording and use the ‘A’ to ‘K’ keys to produce the effects. Satisfied with your recording? Then send it to friends and family!

4. Durex Cucumber

Durex, one of the biggest condom manufacturers in the world, released a funny viral commercial to promote it’s British shop. In the spot the female main character gets an unexpected visit from her parents. Her boyfriend quickly made a few sandwiches using the little ingredients he could find in the fridge. While enjoying the food the girl suddenly realizes the already used the cucumber…

5. Modu

Israel based mobile technology manufacturer Modu announced a very small mobile phone which can be inserted into several different casings for additional functionality. The ‘Modu’ will be available from October 1st. The above video is the first teaser video for the Modu. (Source: Tweakers.net)

6. IKEA: The Complete Bedroom

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Swedish advertising agency Forsman & Bodenfors created the new interactive catalogue The Complete Bedroom for IKEA. The microsite offers a unique experience by using several cinematographic perspectives, fast intro sequences and ultra slow-motions. About 200 blogs already wrote about the IKEA campaign.

7. Orange Underground

Goodby Silverstein created Orange Underground, an integrated online campaign for Cheetos. A chaotic website, a Blogger blog, a television commercial to lead you to the website, an elaborate YouTube account and a cookbook. (Source: Buzzing Bees)

8. Nike: Lace Your Feet

Nike made new soccer shoes, the Mercurial Vapor IV, that are so lightweight it’s like they’re not even there. Thus, the guy is seen lacing up his feet rather than his shoes. The video was made by London based Nice Shirt Films.

9. Audi A4: Strings…

And yet another great Audi commercial. After the beautiful R8 commercial they now show us how the Audi engineers develop the A4 using nothing but strings. (Source: Pheebs Blog)

10. The Interactive Fan

Australia based Lowe + Rivet called upon the magic of Street Theatre to drive ticket sales for the Hyundai A-League Football Finals Series for the Football Federation Australia. The agency came up with ‘the interactive fan’. They used actors to bring to life the various emotions fans go through when watching football in popular Sydney and Brisbane public spaces. Passers could choose from ‘Joy’, ‘Passion’, ‘Elation’, ‘Tension’, ‘Worry’, or ‘Despair’ and then the actor would play out that emotion. (Source: Lowe + Rivet)