Great Ad Parody: Specsavers ‘The Specs Effect’

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Parody in advertising can gain more attention than the original piece if it’s done well. This piece definitely went viral. Specsavers, an online glasses shop created this great viral piece that mocks an older advertisement by AXE. AXE has always been selling sex appeal in their ads, Specsavers’ ad is clever enough to take advantage [...]


If Steve Jobs is coming for lunch, what would you make?

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This is a viral piece was posted on the same day as the iPad released. Jakob Hammarback and Jon Wingard created the iSandwhitch 4G as an experiment to see if it can go viral. It is a video showing how they use different ingredients all put together on a piece of bread to create the same shape [...]


Viral Campaign: A movie about YOU

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There have been many viral websites lately that requires users to upload images of themselves, most of these websites have face detection script on it which allows them to add funny and special effect to the faces. This one is a little bit different, instead of adding effects to images, this creates a movie about [...]


Funny Viral Video: The Social Media Guru

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The real “Social Media Gurus” don’t really speak like this, but very similar. Reconsider when someone just come up and tell you how they can create you or your company a social media strategy just because they have so many followers on Twitter and how great and popular they are on social media. This video [...]


Interview: Kevin She – Founder and CEO of SC Storage

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I was lucky enough to have the chance to interview the CEO and founder of the SC Storage (時昌迷你倉), Kevin She. SC storage was founded in 2001, the first storage company in Hong Kong, it is also one of a few Hong Kong successful cases using social media. Kevin is passionate about social media himself, [...]


Viral Video: The fxck you iPhone by Google

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I actually laughed out loud on this one. Very funny concept and the actors are great! It is a spoof viral video created by Lineline TV and posted on January 5 (Day of Google announcing Nexus One, it’s trending on Youtube right now with about 200 thousand views and 1077 good ratings. Below are some [...]


Spoof from Oren Lavie’s Her Morning Elegance

Oren Lavie’s stop motion music video “Her Morning Elegance” has always been one of my faviourite videos. If you haven’t seen it yet, here it is. And here’s an ad of Comcast, which is a remake of “Her Morning Elegance” Although Comcast’s ad is just a spoof, I think they actually did a good job [...]


Extremely Viral:
Michael Jackson Dance Tribute

I know there have already been enough content online about Michael Jackson after he passed away on 25th June 2009. Although I am a fan of the King of Pop, I’m sharing this video because of it’s viral aspects which have got more than a million views on Youtube in 10 days. More than 300 [...]


Another excuse to be naked

Have been looking at viral campaigns a lot lately, hope you’re not bored watching them yet. This one is another good one I found by Tabasco. This 40 seconds video with Greek background music got Tabasco more than 10,200 views since April 30th. Very smart idea as viewers would most likely watch the whole clip [...]


Funny ad by ICC World Twenty20

Animals are always used in Ads. Like the old Cadbury viral video from 31 August 2007, ICC World Twenty20 is using Gorilla again, but this time, they are playing cricket. It’s only been 4 days to a week since it’s uploaded, so far around 6000 views, will it go viral?

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A Little Something About Tim:

Tim Ho

I'm a Regional Digital Strategist at Ogilvy 360 Digital Influence APAC. I love web designing, data visualization, latin music, cooking, painting, inventing new drinks, and monkeys. Here is my main blog where I share social media news, ideas and insights. I also have a more personal blog called Tim Ho's Monkey!

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