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 [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 27, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 26, 2010
This is a little old now, but a great view of what can happen when something goes viral in China! Earlier this year AKQA and Lipton Milk Tea created a viral campaign that was launched on China’s biggest IM and social networking site QQ to celebrate Chinese New Year 2010. The campaign featured a website [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Blendtec is was probably “the” founding father of social media optimisation for businesses (can you believe they uploaded their first video in 2006), they’ve got one of the all time most successful YouTube channels with 100 million video views and openly attribute the success of the company almost solely to it’s ground breaking social media marketing efforts. [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, March 28, 2010
I think this is a great viral campaign case study for anyone thinking of diving in to create viral content. The first thing you’ll learn, is that viral doesn’t have to be a funny video posted on YouTube! This is the (now) famous, Jesus Kit Kat Viral Campaign that was launched last year, and talked [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Some people just can’t stop being creative. On 09/09/09, advertising creatives Shane Dawson and Ben Birchall from Melbourne found themselves out of a job. After 5 years at the same agency, this creative duo is given their pink slips after a big account walks. They decide to document their redundancy, and their campaign to get [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Samsung (with the help of their global advertising partner Leo Burnett) recently launched a new digital camera range with a difference. The ST550 & ST500 are revolutionary dual screen digital cameras which have a forward facing LCD touch screen panel for taking self portraits (should be big hit with the shameless self promotion types on [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Razorfish releases another amazing report about social influence marketing. It?s an inspiring and great read, below are just a few key topics from the report: ? The Razorfish Social Influence Survey, which unearths the importance of social media ininfluencing purchase decisions. ? A feature on how social media is becoming both a paid and unpaid [...]
Continue reading...Monday, June 1, 2009
Touching testimonial of a worker whose occupation is not regulated, has no union, doesn’t get weekends and works up to 14 hours per day!! And I thought my work was fun. This is a campaign for Dream Job a job portal website in Brazil.
Continue reading...Tuesday, May 26, 2009
To show business and marketing professionals they can improve their businesses with good ideas, two brazilians – Bob Ferraz and Marcelo Melo, working for Fisher (in Portugal) – created a gorgeous campaign for an unusual client, Mr. Felix. Result: silver in the Cannes Young Lions and a huge ROI for Mr Felix. Watch it and [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, May 21, 2009
Hi guys, I’m Lucio Ribeiro and this is my first post on Digital Buzz. I’ll be writing short, sharp posts about the latest digital ad campaigns and some general news all around advertising, marketing and internet. Thanks Aden for inviting me to be a contributor along with Fethi Uluak, Jye Smith and Peter Yesawich Jr. [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...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 [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 19, 2009
The latest viral video online is the new T-Mobile Dance Video from their new “share” campaign. It’s not all that original in that it is leveraging previous popular train station guerilla marketing tactics, but this time turns the entire station into a dance party! Kinda cool – but I don’t rate it.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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