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A viral video is a video that becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media and email. Viral videos often contain humorous content and include televised comedy sketches, such as The Lonely Island’s “Lazy Sunday” and “Dick in a Box”, Numa Numa videos, The Evolution of Dance, Chocolate Rain on YouTube; and web-only productions such as I Got a Crush… on Obama. Some eyewitness events have also be...

Old Spice Launches Mr. Wolfdog Who Will Seduce Us With His Marketing

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It's been a while since we heard from Old Spice but they are back with a video campaign for their new Wild Collection. It's kinda low key, just the new Director of Marketing telling us about his role. But, give it a look, you may like it........

Internet Reacts To New Domino's Pizza Video Ad, Hilarity Ensues

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Domino's Pizza Japan have launched a new iPhone app for customers and used their President to front a video campaign about it. The result is as corporate, cringeworthy and awkward as you would imagine but it's getting the exposure that the company needs......

Now We Can All Create Our Own Dancing Pony Remix. Awesome.

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Move over Harlem Shake, Socks the dancing Shetland Pony is set to trounce all comers in every viral video chart for the next few weeks. However, replicating a moonwalking horse isn't so easy for those who like to take a trend and run with it but a new remix tool lets everyone join in the fun.

Videos of Meteor Hit 100 Million Total Views in Record Time

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The Russian meteor event became an instant viral sensation, as the aggregate amount of views for over 400 videos amassed over 100 million views in record time. No video in the history of videos is close, with KONY and Red Bull Stratos now taking a backseat to the phenomenon.

Viral Video Prediction Made Fun with TubeRank

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TubeRank allows you to enter in a bunch of triggers and community interests into a database in order to find out what videos best exemplify the content you are trying to make. Having examples handy, with all their views and social stats, can give you a guide to what kind of viral video you're trying to make. Even if you don't use it for that, it makes for a great video discovery tool.

The Top 20 Social Video Ad Campaigns For January 2013: Hungry Hippos, Grizzly Bears, & Piranhas

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The year is still young, but one month into 2013, the Unruly Viral Video Chart has already seen some impressive new ads. While there are some tough old veterans clinging on, the most shared ads of January are mostly fresh-faced new ads, making their mark on the ad world.

Can We Predict the 'Shareability' of Videos? Unruly's New ShareRank Tool Says We Can

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When it comes to getting your video noticed, you want to get a lot of views...but how do you get a lot of views?  You might be surprised it takes a lot of work.  What you really want to get with a video is something ...

5 Creative Minimalist Posters for Viral Videos & Web Series

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Have you ever noticed some videos manage to captivate pop-culture more than Hollywood movies? So why don't they receive the minimalist poster treatment? Behold! A handful of legendary viral videos and web series have been given the minimalist poster treatment. It's a fun way of ...

To Make Brands Unignorable - John St. Videos Ignore the Status Quo

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Award winning Toronto based digital agency John St. have come up with some of our favorite viral video ad campaigns over the years. They've produced great campaigns including "Rethink Breast Cancer: Your Man Reminder," a swan song social media campaign for Canadian mass merchandiser Zeller's, ...

Move Over Viral, We've Entered the Age of Social Video

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As social video becomes of more prominence in online video buys and of increasing interest to brands in all verticals, it seems helpful to have a full look at the current landscape of social video, its players, buying tactics, strategies, results from social video campaigns, as well as what's on the horizon for social video.

Google Beats Nike to Become Most Shared Social Video Brand of 2012

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According to new data released today by Unruly Media, Google is the most successful social video brand of 2012. The technology giant’s video campaigns attracted more shares this year than any other advertiser. Thanks to the global success of campaigns such as Project Glass: One Day, ...

Videos That Make Rube Goldberg Proud from the Great Beyond

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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 10 Viral Charity Video Campaigns of 2012

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It's that time of year when we start seeing lists of the top everything from everywhere, and Visible Measures has just announced their top 10 most viral charity campaigns of 2012.  In the year that is clearly PSY's as far as viral video extravaganzas, it's ...

'KONY 2012' Overtakes Major Brands with Most-Viral Social Video of 2012

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The 2012 Unruly Global Viral Video Ads Chart, the annual ranking of the year’s most shared video ads, was released today by Unruly Media. Although Coca-Cola, Chevrolet, P&G, Nike and Volkswagen all feature prominently in the chart, the year’s overall winner is a little-known non-profit. “Kony ...

The #1 Social Video Trigger to Rule Them All is the On-Demand Video Consumer, Generation V

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F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “There are no second acts in American lives.” He was wrong. At least 11 internet marketers and video content producers have been able to produce successful second acts. And some of them have produced successful third and four acts. Who ...

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