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06/03/2009 by
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Viral Friday: The BlackBerry Bullet

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 weeks Viral Friday #1 position goes to Blackberry VS Apple. This video, which was made without the permission of BlackBerry manufacturer RIM, depicts a blackberry bullet making a mockery of an apple in slow motion. The runner up spot is for Idiots Of Ants with their Wii Breakfast. Idiots Of Ants, a London based comedy sketch group who have performed sketches on BBC 2, Fox News, BBC Three and BBC Radio 4, made this parody of all the Wiimote peripherals. Clean Coal completes this week’s top 3. Crispin Porter + Bogusky and the Coen brothers made a commercial for the Reality Coalition advertising that there is no such thing as “clean” coal.

Do you want to see this week’s list from 1 to 5? Go on then, and have a look! We’d like to hear your opinion about the virals. Have fun!


1. The BlackBerry Bullet

BlackBerry opens fire on Apple with the Storm. That’s what the above BlackBerry commercial, made by Guava. The ad, which was made without the permission of BlackBerry manufacturer RIM, depicts a blackberry bullet making a mockery of an apple in slow motion. The bullet continues through the fruit with the tag line, “The world’s first touch-screen BlackBerry. Nothing can touch it.” The ad got almost 700.000 views in just over one week.
(Source: AppleInsider)

2. Wii Breakfast

We’ve seen tennis, snowboarding, fitness and many more cool games on Nintendo’s Wii. But cooking breakfast? Idiots Of Ants, a London based comedy sketch group who have performed sketches on BBC 2, Fox News, BBC Three and BBC Radio 4, made this parody of all the Wiimote peripherals. The parody got viewed over 730.000 times since it was uploaded to YouTube just over a week ago. For more sketches of Idiots Of Ants visit their YouTube channel.

3. Clean Coal Air Freshener

Crispin Porter + Bogusky asked Joel and Ethan Coen to help out with this video for the Reality Coalition advertising that “In reality, there is no such thing as “clean” coal in America today. Coal cannot be called ‘clean’ until its CO2 emissions are captured and stored safely.” Watch the behind the scenes footage to see the brothers in action.

4. Bavaria Spoofs Heineken Walk In Fridge

You may remember Heineken’s Walk In Fridge commercial. Last week Dutch beer brand Bavaria launched a TV commercial that leaves no mistake. The spoof got just over 200.000 views in one week. Read the full story on this spoof in Igor’s posting!

5. Cornetto Ice Cream Fight

Cornetto is the leading brand of premium ice cream in Australia and New Zealand. In last year’s award-winning “No Boring Bits” Proof campaign Streets Cornetto and Terry’s Chop Shop set out to prove that no other cone could deliver goodness top to bottom like Streets Cornetto. As part of the campaign DJ Goodwill launched a new track exclusively for Streets Cornetto, entitled “I Scream”. Goodwill produced the summer anthem in return for a life-time supply of his favourite ice cream. Read Paul’s posting for a lot more info!