Going viral: How apple would explain sexuality to kids
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary
This video is a very a simple concept and video albeit very creative and well executed.
Like the title says, it explains how Apple would explain sexuality to kids… through iPods!
It’s been on Youtube for a week now and with 400.000 views since.
Check it out after the break:
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Tags: Apple, ipod, sexuality, viral video
Top 5 St. Patrick’s Day virals
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary
We’re kicking off today’s St. Patrick’s day celebrations by showing you this holiday’s Top 5 viral videos.
Most of these are ads from Guinness, and quite good ones too, but not all, as you’ll see.
But we’ll start with a non-Guinness one, a video showcasing one of the first app successes for the iPhone – iBeer – since St. Patrick’s Day is very much associated with drinking!
It had more than 3.6 million views since September 2007:
Next, we go to a Guinness ad from 2006, which has had more than 200.000 views just on this source, but many more ono other sources, including TV when it was first aired:
Tags: saint patrick's day, st. patrick's day, top 5, viral videos
Viral Hit: Lady Gaga – Telephone
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under viral hit
Out since last Thursday night, this new music video by Lady Gaga is one of the bigger viral hits I’ve seen so far: +17 million views in just 4 days!
And remember one of so-called viral video rules of keeping a video short if you want it to make viral: not if you’re a huge celebrity like Lady Gaga. This video runs at almost 10 minutes. And the music doesn’t even start at the 3rd minute count.
It’s the sort of thing Lady Gaga has used us to, some weirdness, some exccentricity etc.
And here’s more data for you besides the views:
- 4,198 blog posts
- 83,795 comments
- 10,427 tweets
That’s a lot. All this make this video a huge viral hit.
Even more data – languages it’s beeing spread:
- 54% English
- 26% Portuguese
- 11% Spanish
- 9% Danish
So if you haven’t seen it yet, catch it after the break:
Tags: Beyonce, Lady Gaga, telephone, viral hit
Going viral: Boombox (ft. Julian Casablancas)
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary
Since Saturday Night Live started doing their Digital Shorts (mostly done by the Lonely Island – Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Andy Samberg), many of them have become viral hits.
Now they done another one of those, which is also a music video for one of the songs from their album Incredibad, and has the same kind of humor and nonsense we expect from them.
With 274.000 views since Saturday Night, it has since become viral and the17th most shared video worldwide in the past 24 hours.
Check it out after the break.
Tags: Akiva Schaffer, andy samberg, boombox, digital short, going viral, Jorma Taccone, Julian Casablancas, lonely island, snl, viral video
Viral weirdness: Cycles
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under viral weirdness
It’s been a long time since we’ve post a viral weirdness here but today is the day.
This video is both strange, and strangely hypnotic (both the visuals and the music) and was made by animator Cyriak on Youtube. It got 176.000 views in the last 2 days and now stands on the 18th place at the top viral video chart.
The animation quality is outstanding, as is the animators imagination, so no wonder it started going viral. Plus you just know what is deviant from normal but outstanding has a high chance of going viral (eliciting the feelings of “WTF did I just saw?… ” and then sending it to friends to elicit the same from them!)
Seriously, I can’t have enough of this video! Check it out yourself:
(thanks @catarino for first directing us to it!)
Tags: cyriak, viral video, viral weirdness
Viral Hit: Handsome Men’s Club
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This video was a segment on the Jimmy Kimmel Show just after the Oscars aired and has steadily gone viral ever since, now with close to 800.000 views since Monday and on the number 3 spot of the viral video chart.
The cast he put together for the short is unbelievable and it works really well. Just to give you a few examples, you’ll see Sting, Lenny Kravitz, Matthew Mcconaughey, Josh Hartnett, Rob Lowe, Ted Danson and John Krasinski.
The ridicule, the lines, even the wardrobe, all help make this a great and very consistent segment, and a specially a hilarious one.
Check it out after the break:
Tags: ben affleck, handsome men's club, jimmy kimmel, Josh Hartnett, Lenny Kravitz, matt damon, Matthew Mcconaughey, oscars, Rob Lowe, sting, Ted Danson, viral video
Real or not: BMW motorcycle trick
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under Viral Campaigns
This new video from BMW showcasing their S1000 RR motorcycle performing a well known trick started to go viral yesterday, being now the 8th most share video worldwide. Can you guess what trick it is?
It has had close to 900.000 in 4 days, and the reviewing value here is strong, for one keeps wondering if it’s real or special effects. These types of videos where you have the viewer wondering what’s going on always have high view numbers and are shared alot.
To make up your mind, take a look yourself:
Tags: bmw, motorcycle, real or not, s1000 rr, trick, viral video
Going viral: The New Dork (Jay-Z ft Alicia Keys Spoof)
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under Viral Campaigns
This video was uploaded to Youtube yesterday afternoon, not even 24 hours from now. And it’s already going viral, the 15th most shared video and with 90.000 views.
It’s a spoof of the Jay-Z song feature Alicia Keys by Wooshii member Seedwell aka Pantless Knights, but it’s more than just a spoof. It’s a hymn for entrepreneurship (it’s other title is The Entrepeneur State of Mind) and close to heart to many tech blog readers – which they mention, and which have posted the video already. Being this blogs big viral seeders with thousands of readers, the video started going viral really soon and fast.
Also, it was made for Grasshoper.com, which is a great strategy since the video will be seen by thousands, millions even, and their site will be branded across all those views. If you remember, there was another great video, but of a different nature, that went viral and also had the Grasshoper.com name attached to it (check it after the break).
For now, see the New Dork:
Tags: alicia keys, entrepreneur, grasshoper.com, jay-z, pantless knights, seedwell, spoof, the new dork, viral video, Wooshii
Going viral: the first Ipad commercial
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under Viral Campaigns
During yesterday’s Oscars telecast aired the first Ipad commercial. And you know what that means, this video is bound to become viral really soon.
It already is to some extent, becoming the 24th most shared video worldwide overnight, but it sure will go much higher.
It’s nothing many people having seen before, but now it’s being communicated to the masses who don’t follow tech blogs, in a time where the selling date was setled at 3rd of April in the US and late April in other select countries.
Right now it has close to 4.000 views but expect it to have a huge view count in the coming days.
Take a look:
Tags: Apple, going viral, ipad, viral video
Viral videos, Oscar edition
Posted by Ricardo | Filed under General Commentary
Today we’ll have the Oscars. And what better way to celebrate it and wait for them than to show you some Oscar related recent virals?
The first one is by Wooshii members Whirled Creative, who’ve done several viral videos in the past, and now compiled a few oscar speeches into a video that has had 40.000 views in 4 days.
Take a look:
Tags: animation, fine brothers, La dama y la muerte, logorama, oscars, The lady and the reaper, viral video, whirled creative
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