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Michael Shannon Goes Delta Gamma [Fun Video Friday]

The Michael Shannon video where he reads the infamous Delta Gamma e-mail is amazing. And so is Will Sasso's Arnold Schwarzenegger Vines all culled together in one YouTube video. And you gotta love Jimmy Kimmel exposing people who think they know every band out there...even if they're made up names.

Videos That Make Rube Goldberg Proud from the Great Beyond

Rube Goldberg died on this day (December 7) in 1970, and his legacy is that of cartoons he drew in the early part of the 20th Century starring a character known as Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, depicting inventions that would go through a convoluted series ...

The Top 20 Social Video Ad Campaigns for November 2012: Danger, Travel, and Bieber

November was a dangerous month on the Unruly Global Ads Chart. Snowmen risked life and limb on dangerous quests, extreme sportsmen threw themselves in harm’s way and a gang of cartoon critters were horrifically mangled as a warning to others. Online audiences are most likely ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Video Marketing Lessons - Star Wars Guitar Edition

The week's best viral videos contained a mix of the old standbys and new trailblazers. We've got branded social video successes, both the kind created by the brand itself and the kind that tends to come from consumers who are super-fans. We've also got some ...

OK Go & Chevy Bring The Future Of Video Marketing To 2012

We've written about OK Go several times here at ReelSEO. Their music videos are always viral events, due mostly to the time and care they put into them--oh, and the insane level of creativity. I've often said that it'd be endlessly entertaining just to be ...

Best Branded Viral Video Ad Campaign - The Muppets & OK Go

I've written many times about my love for The Muppets. I'm right in the perfect generation to be a fan--I remember watching and loving both the TV show and the three earliest films as I grew up. And over the past year or two, the ...

Viral Video Chart: The Best Branded Viral Videos Of July 2011

What happens when you give a chimpanzee an AK-47 and let it run riot on YouTube?Well, Twentieth Century Fox is banking on the answer being a box office hit. The signs are certainly good. The controversial hoax video depicting mocking African soldiers handing the ape a ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Fireworks & Bloopers

This was an especially difficult week to group the videos together according to a common theme. While there were plenty of viral video success stories this week, it was about as diverse a bunch as I've ever seen. We have accident videos, we have animal ...

Interview with Tim Nordwind of OK Go - Band, Videographers or Transmedia Geniuses? - Part I

I was very fortunate to manage an interview with Tim Nordwind from the artistic collective known as OK Go (Part 2 Here). Alright, many of us know them as a music band, some of us know them for their viral videos. As far as Tim ...

The Year's Top 10 Most-Watched YouTube Videos & Viral Clips

Last week we talked about Google's Zeitgeist presentation, which details the 2010 year in search behavior around the world, and now little brother is getting in on the year-end action.  YouTube has released a report on the most-watched videos of the year, and it's quite ...

OK Go Takes "Think Outside The Box" To Ridiculous Heights With Last Leaf

Pop quiz:  How many viral video creators are so good at what they do, and so popular, that every single video release garners widespread media attention and goes viral?  Answer:  I can only think of one, and it's the band OK Go. Every time OK ...

Viral Video Lessons Round Up - Great Plays, Crude Jokes, and Another Creative Proposal

It's Friday, which means I've got another batch of the week's most popular viral videos for you, just in case you had too busy a week to keep tabs on the viral marketplace.  We'll try to break each one down a bit to determine what ...

Chrome "FastBall" - Awesome New Interactive YouTube Game

YouTube has launched a new "video" today to celebrate and advertise the Chrome browser, which recently became the third-most-popular browser in the United States.  One of the reasons it's so popular is its speed, and this video attempts to celebrate that attribute.

Viral Video Round Up - Time Manipulation, Candles, and Reunited Soldiers

We're back with another look at some of the week's biggest viral hits.  As always, we're hoping to learn a little something—some nugget of insight—by reverse engineering what ingredients helped each example video go viral.  This week we have a heartstrings-tugging video, another music video ...

Motionbox Pro, Video Platform Review - Simple, Affordable and Simple

Motionbox, which is sort of an odd name though I guess it's motion (moving pictures) in a box (video player) and makes sense, is an online video sharing platform that allows you to upload, edit video and even share both online and offline. Let's take ...