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21/05/2010 by
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Viral Friday: Apple – What Is iPad?

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 Apple – What Is iPad?. Last week Apple aired a new commercial for the iPad, titled “What is iPad”. The runner up spot is for Mukhtars Fødselsdag. Danish bus driver Muktar decides that his birthday is no reason for not going to his job, like any other normal day… Nike: Write The Future completes this week’s top 3. Last Monday Nike Football uploaded this very cool 3 minute film featuring the world’s greatest football players.

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1. Apple – What Is iPad?

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Last week Apple aired a new commercial for the iPad, titled “What is iPad”. For the ones that thought the iPad is not that useful; watch the video and Apple show you all the stuff you can do with it. And as Mac Rumors pointed out; for this ad Apple reincarnated one of the original Apple Newton ads called “What is Newton?” from almost 20 years ago. The iPad ad got over 1 million views in 9 days.

2. Mukhtars Fødselsdag

Danish bus driver Muktar decides that his birthday is no reason for not going to his job, like any other normal day. But this mentality and the fact that he is beloved amongst his colleagues made it a very special (birth)day! This is not the most spectacular or biggest flashmob (for Bedre Bustur) but it sure is a special one for Muktar. The video has been viewed almost 1 million times since 12 May.

3. Nike: Write The Future

Last Monday Nike Football uploaded this very cool 3 minute film (by Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam) featuring some of the world’s greatest players (Cristiano Ronaldo, Didier Drogba, Wayne Rooney, Fabio Cannavaro and many more) to inspire football lovers and sports fans around the world. The film, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu got over 400,000 views on various portals since last Monday. Interesting watch: an interview with the director and some of the stars on Guardian.co.uk.

4. YouTube Turns Five

Five years ago, YouTube founders Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim launched the first beta version of YouTube.com in May, with a simple mission: give anyone a place to easily upload their videos and share them with the world. This video, with almost 400,000 views since last Friday, is a tribute to YouTube’s 5 years anniversary. Do check out the YouTube Five Year Channel.

5. Olympus: PEN Giant

Stop motion videos are hot, but sometimes leave you wondering why it is relevant to the brand. That’s why this video for the Olympus PEN stands out; it uses images shot with the PEN to tell its story. It’s the second video in the PEN story series, the previous version received well over 2 million views. This video has over 150,000 views since 16 May.

 

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