viral video

Unethical practices of making a video viral

Youtube viral video marketing can get as seedy as spam mail, if not seedier.Dan Ackerman from techcrunch posted a blog and gave away a lot of the “dirty” secrets of how to get at least 100,000 youtube video views. Some of the methods are completely legitimate and ethical but some are just, plain wrong.I wrote [...]


Best Ingredients for Web Video

Distributing your video on the web is just about the most cost effective way to share your branding message with the masses. Not only will people be able to search out your video on all the popular sharing sites but you can also use the video to send in e-mail blasts and other [...]


Honda Viral Ad

The amount of amazing branded video out there is endless. Sometimes oldies are goodies. This is a two minute clip created by Honda to illustrate that things just work. Rumor has it that it took hundreds and hundreds of tries to get this entire sequence just right, but my guess [...]


Getting the right thumbnail on YouTube

YouTube certainly does not have the best quality video out there (not by a longshot), but if you want to post a video for viral distribution and search optimization, you have to upload your video to it. Anybody who has uploaded a few videos to YouTube knows that the thumbnails YouTube picks for you [...]


LEGO Millenium Falcon Viral Video

I watched this 3 times and before I realized…I need to post this immediately. Was this created by LEGO employees or is this just the most awesome, cool thing two LEGO die-hard fans put together? From the ending, we know it took them 38 hours to make this stop-motion video. I can [...]