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03/07/2009 by
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Viral Friday: Inmate’s Michael Jackson Tribute

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 CPDRC Inmate’s Michael Jackson Tribute. With the sudden loss of The King of Pop there have been many tributes dedicated to Michael Jackson worldwide. The most popular viral video of this week are the dancing inmates of the Cebu Provicial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Filipines. The runner up spot is for Kia Soul Rock. South Korean car manufacturer Kia launched a viral video to promote their new car, the Kia Soul! MacBook Transforms Into Mini Jet completes this week’s top 3. A surprising entry on ViralFriday from an unexpected corner. LaPoste, the French postal service, launched a video with a transforming MacBook and then aiming for conversion to laposte.fr/lre.

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1. CPDRC Inmate’s Michael Jackson Tribute

With the sudden loss of The King of Pop there have been many tributes dedicated to Michael Jackson worldwide. The most popular viral video of this week are the dancing inmates of the Cebu Provicial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) in the Filipines. The 1,500 inmates have now reached worldwide fame with their dance performances to numbers such as Soulja Boy – Crank That and Michael Jackson’s famous song Thriller. That video has been watched over 28 million times.

The dancing inmates have reached over 3 million views since 27th June and have become the biggest rising video of this week. The signature move of Michael Jackson must be the world famous Moonwalk which he introduced and demonstrated on 16th May 1983 during a performance. This dance has been honored with many tributes as well.

2. Kia Soul Rock

South Korean car manufacturer Kia launched a viral video to promote their new car, the Kia Soul! The video takes its viewers to the Motko port in South Korea, where hundreds of Souls are being shipped everyday. At the site of port, over a hundred Kia Souls, driven by professional stunt drivers, create various images with the cars. There is a man waving his arms, a Soul rolling over the road and finally the Soul logo.

The responses to the viral video are positive and the video was posted on Korean portal Tagstory, as well as on a number of influential international blogs such as Streetfire, Topspeed, Carblogger and Autoblog. Within one month the video got over 1 million YouTube views. According to Kia, they wanted to capture the atmosphere of the site as if it was actually happening during shipping. However, at the end they do warn not to try this home!

3. MacBook Transforms Into Mini Jet

A surprising entry on ViralFriday from an unexpected corner. LaPoste, the French postal service, launched a video with a transforming MacBook and then aiming for conversion to laposte.fr/lre. The results are quite extraordinary, especially for this kind of business. The video generated over 400,000 views on LiveLeak and almost 430,000 views on YouTube since June 15, which brings it to a total of over 830,000 views in under three weeks!

Earlier Matthijs shared his thoughts on this video, read his posting here.

4. Web Site Story

CollegeHumor know exactly how to surprise us time and again. Now they have launched the amusing internet musical spoof Web Site Story. For all of those who ever wondered what would have happened to Tony and Maria had they lived in the digital age.

CollegeHumor’s first Broadway musical since Cats, as they like to call it, only went live this Monday but already found its way on the web. In just five days, there are over 3.500 retweets, diggs and stumpleupons. Next, the video got the attention of some major blogs such as Techcrunch and Slashfilms and leading news sites LA Times and Wall Street Journal.

This week CollegeHumor also launched the entertaining video “Luigi finally Snaps“, in which Mario’s famous sidekick finally stands up against his friend. Within a few days, this video generated over 800,000 views on YouTube alone.

5. Nokia N97

The Nokia N97 is the latest “mobile computer” in the Nseries of smartphones by Nokia and was launched last month. To promote the phone in the Russian market Russian agency “Социальные сети” (or “Snetwork”) created the above commercial. The video first aired on Nokia Mobile Camp in Moscow. Maybe it’s not the most original commercial you’ve ever seen and it is slightly predictable, but it does feature the one aspect that, usually, sells: a hot babe. Maybe it’s the difference in culture, or maybe it’s all due to the woman, but the video almost 300,000 views on YouTube and the Russian video portals urk.net, Yandex video, RuTube and Repka since June 15. The viral made it to the second place in the Yandex “most popular” video list and can be found on several Russian blogs and sites.
(Source: Adme.ru)