Viral Friday: Flying Like A Bird

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 #1 position goes to Flying Like A Bird, the ancient fable of a man flying like a bird comes true. Or not? The #2 is Clean Happy Anthem by Method, sometimes cleaning is not that boring. And the Browser You Loved To Hate closes this week’s top three. Yes, it’s Internet Explorer.

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1. Flying Like A Bird

People have dreams, one of the oldest one is to fly like birds do. And some dreams come true. This is what the “Bird Man” did. Jarno Smeets, a Dutch  mechanical engineer showed in his “Human Birdwings” project, a viral hit with more than 4,7 million views in 5 days! Well, sorry to disappoint you, it’s a hoax and a project of an artist – Floris Kaayk.
It took him 8 months to produce and the idea? No, not to cheat everyone, it was an experiment about on-line media. The result? Making a viral video? Maybe.
But also “He wanted to chase a dream, as most artists do. He wanted to inspire people and I think he succeeded,” said neuromechanics scientist Bert Otten of the University of Groningen. “As an artist he has succeeded, but he has fooled most of us. We all want to fly, don’t we?” Those artists…

2. Method Clean Happy Anthem

No one likes cleaning. It is a fact, but unfortunately you cannot go without cleaning. Method introduces with this video a new way of cleaning: The happy cleaning! This way the brand reached more than 600.000 views in less than 2 weeks.
Method shows what a colorful party it is to clean with this brand and invites them to go to Method’s Facebook page to enter the competition of Happy Cleaning in which one can win a trip to San Fransisco, one-year supply of happy cleaning and untold happiness. Method, the people against dirt. Join to clean happy.

3. The Browser You Loved To Hate

There are numerous jokes about the Internet Explorer, it’s uselessness, slowness, that it’s good only for one purpose and of course, how dangerous it is with all the security issues and never-ending updates. The truth is, once your product has a bad reputation, it’s really difficult to persuade the prospects and customers that the new one is better, more reliable and without the same mistakes.
So here comes the browser you loved to hate with more than 370,000 views since 2nd of March. Wondering why the comments for the video have been disabled – we could have a nice collection of jokes here…

4. Birdie

Do you know what an American Roadshow and the chicken dance have in common? In this new video of Dutch insurance company Centraal Beheer Achmea you will find out that they have more in common than you could imagine. These two guys are trying to find a parking lot during this American Roadshow. It seems to be quite difficult to find one though. Luckily they’re driving in this low-rider car which let them dive under the fence to park their car, eventually this parking lot isn’t the best place.. Watch the movie to find out why. Since March 19th this video has been watched over 270,000 times. Recommended to check more funny movies by Centraal Beheer Achmea.

5. Grab It By the Horns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRQFJF6OV4g

Prepare for anything. The splendors of the Internet, think about triumphant babies who’re gaining all the attention, photo-bombs and seductive men who strictly play smooth jazz. Everything is possible and nothing is unusual on the Internet. Take a sip of your Vitaminwater, revive and you´re back! It´s a funny, meme commercial with more than 150,000 views since the launch on 9th of March.

Well, partially but it’s about inspiring people and make them think it’s successful.