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The Week's Best Viral Videos & Video Marketing Lessons - Super Bowl Edition

When history looks back on this week in the viral video world, the only thing they'll remember is the Super Bowl and all the various online video buzz the commercials generated. The truth is, there were a lot of great videos this week, and only ...

Proctor & Gamble Sneaks 2 Ads Into 1 For Post-Super Bowl Old Spice Goodness

Here's a tremendous way to get your ad money's worth: stick two products into one ad and continue the insane branded insanity of some of the most popular commercials in the world.  Old Spice is known for Old Spice Man and the non sequitur commercials ...

Online Movie Trailers For Friday, February 3: Telekinesis, Saving Whales, & Life After Harry Potter

This past January was a good one for Hollywood, although it goes to show that year-over-year comparisons for specific months is a pretty short-sighted way of looking at this particular business, which entirely relies on product.  Subjective product.  And whenever Hollywood has a comparatively bad ...

Sometimes Movies Don't Need A Big Screen, They Just Need Any Screen

Back in the day, when people actually visited video rental places, movies that either had a short life in theaters or went straight to video basically had to hope the millions of people sifting through the new release shelves would find their video cover and ...

Moe's Southwest Grill Takes A Page From Will It Blend, Scores Big YouTube Hit

Lately it seems like I'm always finding a great example of branded content.  If you're an advertiser looking to make a splash, destroying things to make a point seems to be a good thing to try.  With Blendtec, they've blasted off with branded content showing ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Video Marketing Lessons - Singing Obama Edition

After YouTube's latest updates yesterday to the Browse page, many of you probably spent some time casually playing around with it to see what's new. If you did, you might have come across some of the selections in this week's round up of the best ...

The Social Video Blueprint: A Marketer's Guide To Social Video Success (Free E-Book)

A few months ago we brought you a 9-part series on social video marketing called The Social Video Blueprint. It was intended to serve as an outline of sorts, for companies and brands (and individualcreators) seeking to ignite their video marketing with a social kick. ...

The YouTube Ad Blitz - Super Bowl Commercials Are Coming

It's that time of year again, when two teams square off for the ultimate crown in professional football. At the same time, advertisers will be squaring off for their own annual Super Bowl competition. Like last year, YouTube is partnering with the network broadcasting the ...

Look At Your Viral Video, Now Look Back At Mine - What Helps Old Spice Succeed?

Christmas 2011 brought the welcomed return of the Old Spice Man, in his new re-incarnation as MANta Claus. MANta Claus, played once again by Isaiah Mustafa – the former NFL player turned actor – was on a holiday campaign to give a gift to every single person on the planet. All 7 billion of us. Now, that's some mission.

So apart from the great content what has led to the success of Old Spice's marketing plan?

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Video Marketing Lessons - GoPro Edition

We're getting closer and closer to the 2012 Super Bowl, which means we're about to hit a huge surge of creative (and expensive) Super Bowl ads making their way online to compete for viewers. Heck some brands will go the Old Spice route, skip the ...

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

It was a pretty big week for online video fans, as CES 2012 kicked off and a wave of new video gadget announcements began. We also heard some big predictions from key companies at CES, like YouTube, who said that soon 90% of all web ...

5 Social Video Marketing Tips with Socialnomics' Digital Leader: Erik Qualman

I video-interviewed Erik Qualman at the Chicago House of Blues for the launch of his new book, "Digital Leader: 5 Simple Steps to Success and Influence".  I asked him about his take on "social" and "viral" video and asked him to give us some tips for ...

Viral Video Marketing & The Boy Who Cried "Fake!"

Someday soon, a brand or company is going to accomplish something incredible. It could be a cure for some nasty disease, or a generous donation to a cause or charity... or the next great invention. That company will film it to help prove and commemorate ...

The Week's Best Viral Videos & Marketing Lessons - Silverback Edition

The first week of 2012 proved to be a strong one in the world of online video, as the new year did nothing to slow down the clever brands and amateurs piling up the views with creative videos. This week we have a few bloopers ...

YouTube Channel To Watch In 2012 - Explanation Videos From CGP Grey

When Common Craft pivoted their business into a educational video subscription service, a bit of a void was left in the universe. You see, Common Craft made the absolute best "explanation videos" around--their "Twitter In Plain English" was featured on Twitter's home page for ages ...