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Monday Morning Grindhouse: Weekend Viral Video Marketing Clips To Start Your Week

Last weekend, an illness kept me cooped up in the house, and I ended up spending it watching emerging viral videos. That led to a Monday round up article to start your week with the weekend's most buzzed-about videos. Which was, apparently, much enjoyed. So ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

This technically marks the second viral video round up article of the week, since I also wrote a Monday Morning Grindhouse post as well. And if you enjoyed that... the good news is that it looks like I'll be continuing that as a regular series ...

YouTube's 100th Anniversary April Fools Joke Takes Online Video Back To 1911

One thing the Internet always bands together for is April Fools Day. You can always count on even the biggest websites to pull out a gem of a gag or phony article. And YouTube always has a little fun with the holiday as well, and ...

Best Branded Viral Video Marketing Ads - Skittles Creeps You Out & QuadroCopters Play Tennis

Every week there are countless brands taking advantage of the word-of-mouth power of YouTube to spread ideas and thoughts about their company. Some execute their videos better than others. Of all the many branded videos that hit the web on a daily basis, two clips ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

Major worldwide catastrophes and global news events have a way of swooping in and completely dominating the viral video world, and the situation in Japan is living proof. Videos of the earthquake in action, videos of the tsunami's devastation, and videos of explosions at the ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

Is it really Friday already? Another week is in the books, and it's time to round up the best of the viral success stories from this week. We have animals (honestly, you simply can't publish a list of top viral videos without including animal clips ...

Best Viral Video Marketing Campaign: Old Spice Pulls Back The Curtain

Old Spice has earned their place in advertising lore. Years from now, when marketing students are making their way through the textbook, there will be an entire chapter on Old Spice Man, and the enormous level of buzz he managed to achieve for the brand ...

Is YouTube Courting Celebrities To Create Their Own Channels?

YouTube is the clear and obvious king of online video... for now. And they got there by giving the masses a voice and letting any amateur filmmaker create an account and upload videos. But if the latest rumors are true--that YouTube is actively courting specific ...

The Latest YouTube Legal Issue Seems Horribly Overblown

By now you've probably heard of Evan Emory. He's the 21-year-old Michigan man that now faces 20 years in prison for a simple YouTube prank that has been blown way out of proportion. After Emory completed a harmless musical performance before an elementary school classroom, ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

The week after the Super Bowl, you might expect this column to be filled with some of the best commercials from the big game. But you would be wrong. I wrote about the ads themselves on Monday, and most of us have already watched and ...

Surprise, Surprise: YouTube Million Dollar Gift Was All A Hoax

You should probably sit down for this. Get composed, and ready yourself for really unexpected, bad news: The kid that asked for a million dollars on YouTube and then got it? Yeah, total hoax, exactly like I said it was. After staging a check-awarding ceremony ...

The Best & Worst 2011 Viral Super Bowl Ads as Judged by Online Viewers

Ever since the clock ran out on Super Bowl 45 last night, Hulu has been asking its users to vote on the best and worst of the commercials that aired during the big game. The early results are in, and a few things are clear: ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons

It's Friday again, and I'm guessing there are many of you in the path of the great blizzard that are probably still working from home today, though hopefully most of you are starting to thaw out. Which, I suppose, might increase the need for some ...

Top 6 Websites for Discovering New & Emerging Viral Videos

I've been writing a weekly round up article on the best and hottest viral videos for well over a year now. One of the most common questions I'm asked is about my sources--where do I find the videos I feature in my weekly best-of article. ...

HP Throws Big Brand Weight Behind Live Streaming Interactive Video

I'm a sucker for improvisational comedy.  Back in college, my roommates and I got hooked on the original Whose Line Is It Anyway, and when Drew Carey created an American version several years later (including several cast members from the British version), we were there ...