It’s been a while since a Google video for a new service, product or simply a new feature was on the top of the viral video charts.

But now with the launch of the Priority Inbox feature for Gmail, they may be back.

For one, there are millions of Gmail users who might be interested to know what it is and how it works. Then, it’s been a trending topic on Twitter since it was announced last night, making people even more curious and sharing several links about it. Finally, the video is great, which also helps greatly to make it more shareable.

It’s at 315 views on Youtube (but there are already many more, since the views are only counted every two hours or so), we’ll see how it goes in the coming hours and days.

Gorillaz are have turned into a huge phenomenon since they band got conceived in 1998.

Now they are coming out with a new album in a few days time – Plastic Beach – and the marketing campaign they launched is really smart and getting a lot of viewer attention.

First off, they’ve been releasing small, bite-sized clips of teasers for several tracks of the album on Youtube. See an example for yourself:

This one is the most seen of them (and actually the longest!), with 160.000 views in less than a month. But if you put together all the teasers, they sure would ammount for more than 1 million views combined.

This leaves the fans wanting for more and wanting the new album even more than before.

More: they released a trailer – a trailer! – for their first music video for the album! Probably wasn’t the first time a band did this, but in this case worked so well, doing just what it was meant to do: tease fans.

You can also listen to the full album online now, on the Guardian page, here.

And today, the full music video was released. And expect this to go viral in the next few days. One thing though: I can’t understand why EMI would want to block out some countries from seeing it on Youtube for example. It’s probably because of complicated rights management and piracy, yes, but the more people see it (everywhere) the more they’ll be likely to buy the new album or merchandise from the band, go to concerts etc.

Anyway, it’s on other video services and hopefully it won’t be taken out.

Check it out:

Gorillaz ft. Mos Def & Bobby Womack – Stylo
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And after seeing the video, as amazing as it is, doen’t it feel short? Doesn’t it seem there’s more to it? I’m guessing the next music videos will continue the story, and they’ll be making like a movie or mini-movie out of this. Fingers crossed!

Fox had director Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) do a documentary on the Simpsons’ 20th Anniversary.

And the result is this, a great documentary about one of the most successful and beloved TV shows ever, and featuring a lot of TV personalities from Conan O’brien (former Simpsons writer) to Sting.

But more than me explaining, you should see it. After the break, check out part one (of five):

For more, go to the Fox Simpsons page (those outside the US might not be able to see it, sorry!)

(try youtube!)

As mentioned earlier and in many places on the web, today was the public presentation of the Google phone – the Nexus One.

And it has been the case lately, Google released a cool video for their new product and one which has a great potencial to go viral in the next few hours and days: everyone wants to know what’s this all about this Google phone people have been talking about (has been on two trending topics on Twitter all day long also, wich helps peek curiosity of those who aren’t on the know).

So well produced, shows well the phone’s features and has the Google brand so we’re predicting it to go viral (only 300 something views now!).

Not sure if it will be an (yet another) iPhone killer, though!

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From the same guys who made the Google Wave Pulp Fiction and Good Will Hunting Wave videos, comes another very cool video with Google Wave.

This time, they put the year in perspective using Wave’s tools and multimedia. It’s kind of an information overload, but well made.

It has less than 24 hours and 1.700 views, but this will go viral, for sure, in the next few days:

- it suits the holiday season well (many viral videos are topical),

- it has Google and Wave, hot viral properties in the past months,

- and it’s a cool video.

Enjoy:

UPDATE: I checked back again and it has 14.500 views, wow! In just an hour, is this possible?

I don’t remember where I spotted this video this morning, but when I saw it had so few videos and was posted just yesterday, immediately thought this is going to be viral: pranks and iPhone, what better elements to have on viral video? Just if you auto-tuned the whole thing!

Anyway, in the morning it had 500 views, now it has 4600, and soon may have much more thousands.

It’s a nice twist on the “coin-glued-to-the-ground” prank, and made by a company that does a camera mount for the iPhone 3GS. Also a nice way to showcase your product, by having a video made using it.

Take a look:

We’ll sure look at it in the coming hours/days to see if it reaches a big number.

While we’re at it today with predictions, let’s finish this day off with another one.

I saw this at Gizmodo and immediatly thought that this is going to be viral soon enough. Its a device with pads that trigger samples from a UK beatbox champ named MC Zani.

Isn’t it cool/awkward? Doesn’t it make you cringe and punish your friends with it as a prank or just to make them laugh? I love it (particularly at the end when the guy doesn’t seem to know how to exit the room and stands there awkwardly looking).

Whatever what you may think of the video and the performers, they sure seem passionate about what they’re doing.

Now with 2,758 views, let’s see where this thing goes in the next few days.

Tech videos sometimes go viral.

That has been the case, for instance, with Google Wave’s presentation (a 80 minutes video with more than 5 million views), Boston Dynamics Big Dog… in fact, writing this is giving me the idea of doing a top5 tech viral videos post.

And yesterday I learned about this new product from Dyson (you know, that company that does cool looking – and expensive – vacuum cleaners): a bladeless fan.

That just blew (no pun intended) my mind! And watching the video on their page, now on Youtube, I just realized this might very well be a viral video in the next few days.

And why’s that?

- it’s a WTF moment when people come into contact with it: “wait a minute… a fan? With no blades?”

- as people start knowing about it, they’ll want to tell their friends about this strange new technology of an established product design.

Now the question is what video about it (as there are several already on youtube). I believe the one in question will be the one with people’s reactions to it.

The one above is going with 3225 views at the moment.

But the next one is also a good candidate also, where the inventor Sir James Dyson explains his invention:

Will the Dyson Bladeless van videos go viral? And if so, which one? We’ll see in the coming days.