I’m often very sad about the music culture these days, when songs are all produced for profit and how they make people love their music with all the lifestyle marketing tactics. Cuban music (or any other non-mainstream music) on the other hand don’t do that, they aren’t desperate for attention, they aren’t playing music for [...]
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 [...]
This a a creative online app I discovered that generates music from any URL. All you have to do is to type in a URL, the program will then analyze the html script in the <body> content and generate a unique piece of music for this URL. User can share this piece of music through [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As I see more and more “social media agencies” out there, I started to look into what they are offering their clients with their so-called “social media marketing” campaigns and I realized what they do are basically the same as prostitution. It’s wrong, but many agencies do it Many of these agencies do only tactical [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A Little Something About Tim:
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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