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11/04/2008 by
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Viral Friday: An Honest R&B Song

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 Runawaybox.com with Ooh Girl! – An Honest R&B Song. Santa Monica based Runawaybox.com mainly produces its own content with their team. Their most successful video is a spoof of all R&B songs. The video got over 3 million views in just three weeks time. The runner up spot is for Hillary, Be My Best Friend. YouTube personality Venetian Princess from Boston joins Obama Girls battle with her political music video. I’m F*cking Obama completes this week’s top 3. Hugh and Jez Atkin created a hilarious spoof of Sarah Silverman’s I’m F*cking Matt Damon.

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. Honest R&B Song


Santa Monica (California) based Runawaybox.com mainly produces its own content with their team. Their most successful video is a spoof of all R&B songs, titled “Ooh Girl! – An Honest R&B Song“, with over 3 million views in just three weeks time. Behind the scenes footage is also available.

2. Hillary, Be My Best Friend


YouTube personality Venetian Princess from Boston joins Obama Girls battle with the political music video Hillary, Be My Best Friend. Jodie-Amy Rivera, Venetian Princess’ real name, got famous in 2006 with her YouTube videos and was one of the first participants in YouTube’s revenue-sharing program in 2007. In total her videos got viewed over 18 million times. Her latest, “Hillary, Be My Best Friend”, got over 800.000 views since it aired 4 days ago.

3. I’m F*cking Obama


Brothers Hugh and Jez Atkin, of the The Margins of Error weblog from Sydney Australia, created a spoof of Sarah Silverman’s I’m F*cking Matt Damon in which Barack & Hillary sing I’m F*cking Obama. We have seen the technique used for this video before at YouTube user rx2008.

4. Whiz Biz: Morning After


Clemenger BBDO Sydney created this hilarious spot for female urination device manufacturer WhizBiz. The video, which was shot by Tony Potts and Prodigy Films and edited by Joe Morris, shows a lot of similarities with the Nomad spot a few years ago.

5. White Gold


Goodby, Silverstein & Partners from San Francisco created this very ‘wrong’ rockband called White Gold and the Calcium Twins for California Milk Processor Board’s Got Milk campaign. The campaign aims to increase milk consumption among youngsters. Statistics from the United States Department of Agriculture show an increase of 14% in the period between 1981 and 2006 when it comes to the consumption of milk. A microsite, Facebook group, MySpace profile and a YouTube channel have to help reaching the target group. The song One Gallon Axe scores good on YouTube with about 350.000 views since the launch three weeks ago. (Source:Young Marketing)

6. South Park vs Internet Stars

Last year Viacom, owner of MTV and Nickelodeon, lodged a complaint against video site YouTube. The American concern claimed a remuneration of 1 billion dollar the illicit use of copyrighted video material. In a South Park episode last Wednesday Stan, Kyle Cartman and Kenny ask themselves “How do we make money on the internet?”. The following two scenes (“Meet the internet stars” and “Shut Your F-ing Mouth, Laughing Baby!“) could come straight out of Viacom’s chairman Philippe Daumann’s dreams: all YouYube’s viral internet stars, Numa Numa, Chris Crocker, Tron Guy, Tay Zonday, Hahaha (laughing baby) and Afro Ninja, kill each other. (Source: Marketingfacts, Valleywag)

7. Exclusive! Leaked! How to make Viral Videos!


Last year Dan Ackerman Greenberg, co-founder of viral marketing agency The Comotion Group, published one of the most controversial postings ever on TechCrunch. The posting created a lot of buzz around the 22-year-old Stanford student, who even made it to CNN. Mike, Andrew and Woody, of Runawaybox, mixed the posting into an entertaining video which editor Duncan Riley posted on TechCrunch last week.

8. The SEO Rapper: Design Coding


Chuck aka The Poetic Prophet aka The SEO Rapper from Houston (Texas) doesn’t rap about beautiful lady’s, lots of money and fast cars but about web development, web design and search engine optimization. In the past months he rapped about several SEO topics like social media (MySpace, Twitter and Virb), linkbuilding, paid search and conversions. In his latest rap song “Design Coding” his advice is to make a clean design and make sure the code is tidy and by the standards. (Source: Digibilities)

9. Kraak & Smaak: Squeeze Me


In 2006 Dutch dj and producer trio Kraak & Smaak, consisting of Mark Kneppes, Oscar de Jong and Wim Plug, scored a worldwide success with their début album ‘Boogie Angst’. Now they bring us their second album ‘Plastic People’, launched with the new single ‘Squeeze Me’. The video clip is made by the directors duo André MAat and Superelectric and produced by Pool Productions. The flipbooks used for the video will soon be sold on eBay. Several other viral music videos are from OK Go, Justice, SoCalled and Naive New Beaters.

10. Golden Fire


To promote a new beer brand, Golden Fire, Ninja LAB, which is part of the Italian NinjaMarketing, created this Cloverfield-like commercial. There also is a “Making Of” available.