Darth Vader and a Volkswagen. Old Spice on a horse. Britney, Pink and Beyonce as gladiators. These are three of the most watched viral ads ever made. Ad Age compiles the top ten.
Viral videos
Tears and torment: when internet celebrity goes awry
11-year-old Jessi Slaughter has achieved internet celebrity status for all the wrong reasons. Picked on by cyber bullies, a video of her and her father freaking out only secured her notoriety.
Going viral won’t kill you
Users can ban embedding of their YouTube videos and plenty of record companies are employing it. But stopping video clips from float freely around the web is simply killing the ability of videos to go viral.
The top internet memes of 2009
Balloon Boy, David after the dentist, the Three Wolf Moon tshirt, Susan Boyle, Kanye West at the VMAs… so many memories. Mashable looks back at 2009 through internet memes.
The best viral ad videos of 2009
Business Pundit wraps up the ads that took the internet by storm in 2009, including LED sheep, Bruce Lee playing table tennis, Vanilla Ice says sorry. Ah, so many memories, so many wasted working hours…
Another “viral” marketing stunt results in red faces
Marketers for a new movie paid a high school valedictorian $1800 to plug the flick in her graduation speech, hoping the footage would go viral on YouTube. It didn’t, the movie bombed, everyone snickered at the lame PR stunt.
Video of the Day: Keyboard Cat: True Internet Story
The real history of Keyboard Cat, from Woodstock to his spiral into drug abuse.
Hating Clare Werbeloff
Joe Hildebrand muses on the moral outrage sparked by the shocking revelation that — gasp! — something on the Internet was false!
50 cars or 1 bus? An exercise in green advertising
How a Swedish ad agency got a green message to go viral.
Manipulating YouTube = priceless marketing for Britain’s Got Talent
The story of Susan Boyle is a neatly fashioned reality that, on closer examination, is cynically manipulative and deceptive.
Domino’s Pizza posts apology video
Domino’s Pizza have created an online video of their own after a clip of two employees defiling food went viral and caused a PR disaster.
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