Daniel Secareanu » Viral Marketing http://www.secareanu.ro Strategic Marketing & Business Development Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:41:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Top 10 Most Watched Viral Videos All Time http://www.secareanu.ro/2009/05/04/top-10-most-watched-viral-videos-all-time/ http://www.secareanu.ro/2009/05/04/top-10-most-watched-viral-videos-all-time/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 12:58:10 +0000 Daniel http://www.secareanu.ro/?p=617 via WebTV Wire:

1. Soulja Boy – Crank That
2. Twilight Movie Trailer
3. Mariah Carey – Touch My Body
4. Jeff Dunham – Achmed the Dead Terrorist
5. Susan Boyle (Britain’s Got Talent)
6. Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love
7. Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend
8. Chris Brown – With You
9. The Dark Knight Movie Trailer
10. Alicia Keys – No One

(based on a study by Visible Measures, which tracks video views across sites such as YouTube, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Veoh, Yahoo, Hulu, and the sites specific to certain videos).

The conclusion of the study was that music videos, video trailers and TV shows still top video views across various video platforms, with only Jeff Dunham’s Achmed making it to the top 10 as the only user generated content type of video. However, there is still place for true user generated content to be successful on video platforms, as long as it can pack in the right ingredients.

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via TheNextWeb.

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(seen on guardian.co.uk)

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If browsers were women... (source: funnyjunk.com)

If browsers were women... (source: funnyjunk.com)

Which browser do you like most? Which one do you use most often? :)

]]> http://www.secareanu.ro/2009/03/16/if-browsers-were-women/feed/ 1 Premio Dardos Award http://www.secareanu.ro/2009/02/26/premio-dardos-award-2/ http://www.secareanu.ro/2009/02/26/premio-dardos-award-2/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 14:47:07 +0000 Daniel http://www.secareanu.ro/?p=502 Premio Dardos AwardWords of a Broken Mirror (Alina Popescu) has recently awarded me the Premio Dardos Award. If you don’t know what the prize means (and I didn’t when I received it myself either), I can now tell you that Premio Dardos means “prize darts” in Italian (sounds more like Spanish to me, but that’s what my sources tell me). The prize is given for recognition of cultural, ethical, literary and personal values transferred to the world in the form of creative and original writing.

While the prize comes as an aknowledgement of one’s personal contribution to the online world, it doesn’t come without strings attached. Once you accept the award by posting about it and about the person who awarded it to you on your blog, by linking to his/her blog, you also have to give the award yourself to other 15 individuals who are worth of receiving it.

Since I already accepted the award, I pay my dues by listing here those individuals that I would like to pass the award to, for their remarkable contribution to the online world (in the mental order they invaded my thoughts and with females first in line):

  1. Corina Gonteanu
  2. Loredana Pascal
  3. Laura Mihailescu
  4. Nona Serbanescu
  5. Adriana Capraru
  6. Georgiana Giba
  7. Diana Dragomir
  8. Mihai Stanescu
  9. Mircea Scarlatescu
  10. Cristian Sitov
  11. Dragos Dehelean
  12. Cristian Manafu
  13. Doru Panaitescu
  14. Bogdan Gavrila
  15. Madalin Matica

…and I have to tell them as well :) .

Update: I left a small note on everyone’s blog that I listed up here, and I wonder what they will think of it. In a sense, this whole Premio Dardos Award looks like a chain letter, but in fact it is some sort of a viral networking and recommendation action. If you think about it, every blogger who gets involved will share with the world their favorite bloggers, in a sense recommending them to their readers. Anyways, it felt weird doing this, as if I was a small child playing tricks on people :) . How did you feel?

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For all we receive from you, we ...k you

For all we receive from you, we ...k you

For all we receive from you, we ...k you

For all we receive from you, we ...k you

]]> http://www.secareanu.ro/2009/01/14/without-plastic-it-would-be-fantastic/feed/ 0 Top 36+1 Viral Videos of 2008 http://www.secareanu.ro/2009/01/07/top-361-viral-videos-of-2008/ http://www.secareanu.ro/2009/01/07/top-361-viral-videos-of-2008/#comments Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:57:44 +0000 Daniel http://www.secareanu.ro/?p=433 Via TheNextWeb.org: On Monday, Upload Cinema presented their fine selection of last year’s best viral videos. You can see the top 10 below and the rest on the TheNextWeb.org page:

1. Manking Is No Island (by JASON VAN GENDEREN)

2. Wassup 2000 (by DOOMWITHBOOM)

3. Wassup 2008 (by 60FRAMES)

4. Yes We Can (by WECAN08)

5. Fitna De Movie (by GEERT WILDERS) – WARNING: SHOCKING IMAGES

6. Tina Fey as Sarah Palin (by APGUITARGUY401)

7. Dutch Minister Ella Vogelaar Confronted by a Shock Blog (by GEENSTIJL)

8. Kobe Bryant Stunt (by THECOURTISOPEN)

9. White Kid Stunt (by JMIAH14)

10. Jumping Under a Car (by SHAKEITDAVEY)

What is interesting is the fact that there is a significant proportion of viral marketing videos that were good enough to make it into this top 36, telling us that innovative marketing is still with us.

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