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Roger Federer Trickshot Goes Viral

22. August 2010

4 days and 4+ million views, that’s what you get when you throw Roger Federer into a viral video and seed it to perfection. It’s kind of scary when you take a step back and think about how many of these trick-shot-style viral videos are out there (or have been), and how almost every time, no matter [...]

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Chatroulette: The Last Exorcism Campaign

19. August 2010

I didn’t realise anyone was still using Chatroulette since the hype died off, let alone running campaigns through it, but for what it’s worth, this is a pretty cool (but predictable) campaign for “The Last Exorcism” horror movie. It features a girl interacting with people through the web cam, giggling as she looks to unzip her top for the guys on the [...]

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Lynx: The Wingman Academy Webisodes

18. August 2010

Lynx recently launched a new series of webisodes on Facebook called The Wingman Academy, a new training facility designed to get rid of dating irritations as they put it, in typical lynx style! The webisodes train you on how to become a better wingman by avoiding all the typical advances, irritations, chic chats (as they [...]

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The Twitter & YouTube Movie Trailers

16. August 2010

A month or two ago, Sony Pictures released a trailer for the Social Network movie, to which many people were unsure if it was true or not, unfortunately it is, and on the back of that we’ve seen a few great parody’s in the YouTube Movie Trailer and the Twitter Movie Trailer start to appear and gain some traction [...]

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Precious: The Bike With A Brain

11. August 2010

Meet Precious, the bike with a brain that’s riding across America to raise funds for Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG charity. So what do I mean by bike with a brain? Well, it’s a bike with all sorts of sensors attached to some pretty cool code and a few silicon chips to bring the bike to life. [...]

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The Expendables YouTube Takeover

9. August 2010

This is the latest campaign element for the launch of The Expendables movie, a YouTube takeover that features as an interrupted interview with Sylvester Stallone. While I love YouTube takeovers, I felt a little let down by this one (I’ve got high standards!), but only because they played it a little safe, for such an action packed movie, [...]

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Video: Killa Appz

5. August 2010

What a way to get your portfolio noticed! Props to Dave Berzack on his video “Killa Appz”, a hilarious rap about his passion for web dev! So the video as of now is sitting at almost 1400 views, and I’m wondering how far it will run over the next week as the industry picks it up. If [...]

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Hell Pizza: YouTube Adventure Pizza Film?!

4. August 2010

Right. So a pizza company creates a crazy YouTube choose your own adventure film as a lead gen tool and sales driver? I love it. Hell Pizza, a little New Zealand Pizza startup that has rapidly grown to about 100 stores (in multiple countries) have just launched a very cool campaign with YouTube’s Annotations feature allowing them to [...]

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Bacardi True Originals Facebook Fail?

2. August 2010

Maybe it’s because I’ve had a seriously long day, but this ongoing webisode series on Facebook from Bacardi called True Originals has just completely disappointed me, in fact using these videos as a Facebook campaign is a clear and epic fail on a number of levels. But first, let’s look at these amazing short films where a mysterious character seems [...]

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Diesel Facepark: The Analog Version of Facebook

27. July 2010

Diesel’s “Be Stupid” campaign platform continues to drive ridiculously innovative work. This time they’ve said that Digital is smart. Analog is stupid. And with that, Diesel has created a social event called Facepark, a live event where thousands turned up to create an analog version of Facebook, simulating pretty much everything you can do on Facebook in a physical [...]

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YouTube’s Show & Tell Site For Marketers

22. July 2010

I’ve just been sent a link to what I believe is an almost undiscovered land within YouTube, well, by undiscovered I mean I’ve never seen it (have you guys??) and for an official YouTube run channel, it’s clearly almost non existent with only 60,000 views since going live back in December 2009. This is home to the the [...]

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The Star Wars Subway Viral Video

20. July 2010

Looking back at my previous post on Flash Mobs, it’s interesting to see how something on a much smaller scale can have a much bigger impact. I guess you could call this a flash mob of sorts, but it’s not your typical dancing group (although these are the same guys that did the Frozen Grand Central [...]

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Surely Flash Mobs Are Now Dead?

18. July 2010

Take a good look at this Flash Mob created by Malibu in NYC and then pause for a moment of silence, because that might just be the last promotional flash mob you’ll ever see! Don’t get me wrong, I think flash mobs were pretty cool in 2008 and even early 2009, the 10 or so [...]

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Old Spice Sends Personal Twitter Video Replies

14. July 2010

Wow! Not only did Old Spice and Wieden Kennedy pickup a Grand Prix at Cannes for their campaign, they’ve just started rolling out one of the best social campaigns I’ve ever seen, all based on the ads that generated so much talk over the last few months. Old Spice has just started delivering personal video [...]

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Google Chrome “Fastball” Mashup Game

1. July 2010

Wow. This is seriously cool. Google has just launched a crazy YouTube / Social / App mashup game called Google Chrome Fastball – A Race Across The Internet. The game has the same visual flavour as the “speed test” campaign and challenges you to see if you’re “Chrome Fast” by setting a ball rolling across [...]

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Opera Browser: Potato World Record Speed Test

2. June 2010

Last month Google released a viral campaign around their Chrome Speed Test where they tested the Chrome browser against the speed of a potato gun among a number of other things. So in a hilarious and cheeky poke directly back at Google, Opera have released this parody video showing their browsers’ attempt to beat the potato boiling [...]

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A-Team YouTube Google Earth Game

31. May 2010

I’m really looking forward to the A-Team Movie. So in my quest to watch the HD trailer, I came across this pretty cool YouTube / Google Earth mashup game where you can watch the trailer and then drive the A-Team van through Google Earth (while still inside YouTube) cities. The aim of the game is [...]

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The $300 Chat Roulette “Killer” Viral

27. May 2010

Here is another new chat roulette campaign fresh off the webcam this month, it’s a viral campaign for Buzz TV in Spain, a TV station that claims to be Intense, Real and has No Limits. So this is perhaps the most visual of all the campaigns I’ve seen so far and it takes what unsuspecting [...]

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NRL: Back Your State Facebook App

25. May 2010

Tonight is the night, the first of three State Of Origin battles begins in Sydney! So I thought it was timely that I post up my new Facebook App concept, it’s called Back Your State and we’ve built it specifically to take advantage of the crazy State Of Origin hype, banter and passion! The Facebook app [...]

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Chat Roulette: HIV Guerrilla Marketing

23. May 2010

If you’ve been wondering what type of guerrilla marketing campaign would actually work through Chat Roulette, then this is probably it. A smart new campaign for HIV awareness is utilising Chat Roulette to highlight what you shouldn’t do in real life, where a semi-nude lady draws people in for a closer look before before letting them [...]

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Olympus Stop Motion: The PEN Giant

18. May 2010

If you remember this time last year, I posted the Olympus PEN Story, that stopmotion video had 2.5 million views and was somewhat revolutionary in the way the stopmotion was presented. This is version two, the PEN Giant, where they have again taken 355 photos on an Olympus Pen, but this time they’ve printed them [...]

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Super Sexy CPR Viral Campaign

18. May 2010

Fortnight Lingerie launched a viral video last week, it’s called Super Sexy CPR and aims to get men (and women), who’ve been putting off learning CPR, a powerful reason to learn the best way to do it! From all accounts so far it’s seriously accurate! What I wasn’t a fan of, was the missed opportunity around the [...]

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The Google Job Experiment

15. May 2010

Alec Brownstein needed a job, so he did something just a little different to get himself an interview. He ran a Google Adwords campaign for the names of some of the worlds best creative directory in Gerry Graf, David Droga, Tony Granger, Ian Reichenthal and Scott Vitrone. The PPC campaign had a message: “Hey, David [...]

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Live Twitter Artwork: Just Don’t Tell Ashton

12. May 2010

Students from the Berghs School of Communication in Sweeden have launched a social experiment that is perfectly themed to attract some serious attention! They are creating a live piece of artwork at Don’t Tell Ashton, a new website that holds the profile images of people who re-tweeted the campaign page in scale to their twitter following, [...]

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Liquid Mountaineering: Running On Water Viral

11. May 2010

I laughed when I first watched this new viral campaign from Hi-Tec. Maybe it was just the South African accent or perhaps it’s the entire documentary style viral video promoting a water proof line of clothing, shoes and accessories that are supposedly so water repellent that you can literally run on water with them, after some training ofcourse! Share This Digital Buzz Post:

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