When history looks back on this week in the viral video world, the only thing they'll remember is the Super Bowl and all the various online video buzz the commercials generated.
If you're an avid follower of viral videos like I am, you probably got fooled again this week by the new zen masters of staged viral videos: thinkmodo . Thinkmodo, out of New York, has created similar "hoax" video campaigns for numerous other brands--you might remember their Times Square Hack video promoting the Hollywood film Limitless
Mr. Brainwash, aka, Thierry Guetta, became a fairly well-known street artist thanks to the unusual and entertaining documentary Exit From the Gift Shop .
We’ve discussed a number of ways web series creators try to collect viewers, but how about the possibility of discovering buried treasure if you watch? On July 31 of last year, almost exactly a year ago, a group of puppet masters aired the first of eight episodes of We Lost Our Gold, a series in which puppet pirates (and one ninja) speak in code, clues which lead to a buried treasure in New York City
What happens when you give a chimpanzee an AK-47 and let it run riot on YouTube?Well, Twentieth Century Fox is banking on the answer being a box office hit.
If you hadn’t heard, there’s a new Planet of the Apes movie coming out this year. I know, I know… I’m just as surprised as you are that the studio went ahead with it after the debacle that was Tim Burton’s version. And yet, it exists
Read more:It was another big week for viral videos. You probably heard about the Facebook Arm Tattoo video (which was a hoax ), or the video of the soldiers who were charged for extra bags by Delta… or maybe you caught one of the dozens of great new video game clips from the E3 conference
This is just awesome. The Facebook tattoo video, which I wrote about here yesterday as part of a “videos that become news” article, turns out to be an elaborate fake
First there were the ad agencies—big brands paid them to dream up marketing creative for everything from print to radio to television. Then came the niche agencies designed to help just with the emerging media market of online videos. And now that most of the major U.S.
Well, good morning. I hope you’re off to a great start on this fine Friday morning
