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Chat Roulette: Piano Improvisation Goes Viral!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

This is probably the first real viral video that’s come out of Chat Roulette. A guy named Merton creates a mix of free-style piano, singing and comedy all wrapped into one funny video from Chat Roulette. So far, it’s had over 1.3 million views on YouTube in less than a week. I think the take [...]

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The Man Your Man Could Smell Like Goes Viral!

Monday, March 8, 2010

Yes, I’ve been out of the country for a few weeks so this viral is about a month old. But it’s possibly the funniest ad I’ve seen in a long time and on top of that, it’s still sitting at #10 on the Viral Video Charts so it deserves a mention! So far, the “Old Spice” ad [...]

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Ok Go Releases Crazy New Viral Music Video!

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Do you remember the band that released that music video with them performing a song while moving around on Treadmills? Well, that video made them famous and now they are back with another YouTube release of their latest music video, and it’s already getting some serious attention online with almost 3 million views in it’s [...]

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The $500 Digital Campaign

Monday, December 7, 2009

I love the thought process behind this $500 campaign by McCann Erickson Israel for Opticana (an optometrist), they’ve been doing some amazing work lately. Now I’m sure almost every reader or entrepreneur here has considered doing the same type thing at some point in time, for some keyword, but usually the whole spam thing gets the better [...]

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Skype: Live Phone Box Experiment

Monday, December 7, 2009

Skype and The Viral Factory recently launched a live campaign called the Phone Box Experiment, a new awareness campaign promoting Skype’s cheap international calls to mobile phones and landlines. So they’ve taken one guy, flown him to the most remote pay phone on the planet where he has setup camp for the next 10 days taking as many calls [...]

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iPhone App & Viral For Insurance Campaign

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Dutch agency Novocortex recently launched a pretty cool viral and iPhone app game bundle called “Enless Racing” for an insurance company called Vrijverzekerd to promote their point of difference in the market of repaying the purchase price of the car in an accident. The app lets you build an endless race track with multiple iPhones, [...]

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Braquo: The YouTube Takeover Experience

Thursday, October 15, 2009

(#update – the vimeo video is not working, so I’ve switched to the MSN video) We’ve been seeing some innovative rich media campaigns on YouTube over the last 12 months, including this new one for Braquo, a new crime TV series in France where they take over the entire page, bringing as many elements as possible [...]

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100 Greatest Hits Of YouTube in 4 Mins!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

So while I’m in viral mode I thought I’d better post up the other great video I found tonight that will bring back a lot of funny memories from emails in years gone bye! Check out what’s hitting the charts this week with over 1.5 million views so far, it’s called the 100 Greatest Hits [...]

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Help Bibi: Viral Campaign Israeli Style

Saturday, September 19, 2009

This is a viral campaign – Israeli Style! TwentyThree in Israel have just launched a the campaign for a bottled water company called “Water&” that create water mixers to help relax, energize and re-charge. So to get some viral traction, they wanted to do something a little different, but I see this as something just a little crazy! It’s a [...]

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Sony Vaio Viral: Say No To Social

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Sony Vaio has just uploaded a new viral campaign to YouTube called “Say No To Social”. It’s a funny clip about a bunch of social media addicts in rehab to curb their fixations with online communities. 20,000 views in it’s first week isn’t setting the campaign on fire, but we’ll see what happens once it [...]

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Snoop Dogg vs Heineken’s Walk In Fridge

Friday, July 17, 2009

You know Heineken have done something right when their YouTube virals get millions of views, but when someone like Snoop Dogg hijacks their viral ad to help promote his own concert – it’s jumped to a new level!! This is the new Snoop Dogg Tour promotional video that has just been released. Enjoy! (see my [...]

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Boondoggle: The Truth About Cannes Gold Lions

Thursday, July 16, 2009

This is classic. Agency Boondoggle won 5 Cannes Gold Lions in 2009 and (as you do) thought they should just make sure they are the real thing. Great viral piece for the Advertising Industry! Nice work Boondoggle, winner of 5 Yellow Copper Lions.

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Michael Jackson Flash Mob In Amsterdam

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

I’ve been waiting to see a Michael Jackson flash mob of this scale (created by Isabelleokane.com) and thanks to Igor @ Viralblog for posting, here it is! Flash Mobs have been one of the biggest viral phenomenas in 2009 so it was only a matter of time before someone coordinated one this size for Michael Jackson.

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Eternal Moonwalk: A Tribute

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

OK, so I’ve had a few emails today suggesting I should post up the latest Michael Jackson tribute website called “Eternal Moonwalk” by Studio Brussel & Group94. I wasn’t going to because it’s already on all the other great creative blogs but I gave in… It’s a funky little site where you can upload your [...]

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Follow The Fashion: Brisbane’s Virtual Mall

Monday, July 6, 2009

CumminsNitro Brisbane has just launched a new government campaign called “Follow The Fashion” where they hope to position Brisbane’s “Queen Street Mall” as the top fashion shopping destination in Queensland. It has a twist & viral element that encourages designers to upload their best designs into a virtual shop front that becomes part of the [...]

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Philips Vs 140 Characters Of Genius

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Philips have just launched a very cool new social media campaign on Twitter (@Philips_vs) called Philips Vs Anything. It’s a competition where anyone on twitter can submit crazy new product testing ideas to Philips, with the best ones to be created by their Agency, Tribal DDB, and everyone going in the draw to win one [...]

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Ultimo Viral: Underwear Models Field Test Bras

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

I’m pretty sure it must be a proven fact that underwear & lingerie must be the easiest things to make virals for. Great looking women with nothing much on instantly gets traffic (even if its not targeted!). But this is a pretty good attempt by Ultimo in the UK with this little viral video of their [...]

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Lenovo: Kill Switch Viral Campaign

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Lenovo have just launched a viral campaign based around their seemingly famous “Kill Switch” feature where you can SMS a number and have your stolen or misplaced laptop disabled or in this case “blown up” to ensure your data stays protected. I’m generally pretty fair on campaigns as they are always limited to the clients [...]

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Vodafone #ukhols Map: Twitter/Google Mashup

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Vodafone in the UK has just launched a #ukhols map, a great little mashup of Twitter & Google maps where the twitter sphere can tweet to #ukhols followed by their age, sex and postcode with the city (most tweets look like this #ukhols 24 M RG6 Cairo) to have the Vodafone site plot their next [...]

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T-Mobile Sing-along Viral Video

Monday, May 4, 2009

Following the ”Life’s for Sharing” campaign T-Mobile spread a new video last week for calling the public to attend a new event in Trafalgar Square, on April 30. Yesterday I found the new event video ”Sing-along” on Youtube which attracted 13.500 people to sing ”Hey Jude” from The Beatles with the help of singer Pink [...]

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MINI Clubman Viral Ad “Fake”

Thursday, March 26, 2009

It’s been a little while since we’ve seen new work for MINI, but here comes the MINI Clubman Viral. In what is actually not your standard style of viral, MINI actually take you into a car trailing a pair of MINI Clubman cars and start to talk about how this ad is actually a viral… [...]

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Easier Than Reading Viral Site

Monday, March 23, 2009

On the FWA I found a funny little attempted viral site has been launched this week called Easier Than Reading. It’s kind of like elf yourself, only it’s anything but Christmas time! You can select a puppet from a range of famous people, choose an appropriate background and then create a custom puppet dance for [...]

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Best Job In The World: Campaign Results

Sunday, February 8, 2009

The best job in the world now has some definitive social media and viral campaign results filtering though, and they quite literally are off the charts. By now, everyone has seen or heard about the Island Reef Job Campaign by Tourism Queensland, it’s been every where, with the campaign being incredibly well executed across Twitter, [...]

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Your Inside Joke Is Now Online!

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Have you ever enjoyed your inside joke with a group of friends at a party? Now you can online, with the latest viral campaign from US Cellular, in which users can upload photos and/or draw diagrams over the top to bring their inside jokes to life online and then share them with as many friends as they like! [...]

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Career Builder Anonymous Tip Giver Viral Campaign

Monday, January 26, 2009

Career Builder is launching a new campaign for the Superbowl, including this attempted viral website that allows users to choose a funny animation and couple that with their own personal message (virtually spoken) or choose from a whole list of predefined comments and send it anonymously to friends or co-workers to let them know what you really [...]

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