A lot of great brands are creating awesome online videos to promote themselves. And many of them deserve plenty of praise for their efforts, as well as the end result

In Friday’s viral video round up , I linked to a new Old Spice commercial starring long-haired model, Fabio, and even implied that I thought he was a dull choice to follow up the pitchman antics of Isaiah Mustafa and NFL player Ray Lewis. Turns out, I jumped the gun, and Old Spice hasn’t parted ways with Mustafa at all.

This was an especially difficult week to group the videos together according to a common theme. While there were plenty of viral video success stories this week, it was about as diverse a bunch as I’ve ever seen

This is the first in a nine-part series on how brands are turning to social video to better reach and engage consumers.

Behold the power of YouTube. You might have heard about the U.S. Marine, Scott More, who created a YouTube video to publicly invite Hollywood actress, Mila Kunis, to a military ball

It’s Friday again, and you know what that means: no one wants to concentrate on work, and everyone’s already in weekend play-time mode. So why not help ease that transition with something that is equal parts work and entertainment, the ReelSEO viral video round up? We’ll give you all the best viral videos from this week, all here in one place for easy viewing, but we’ll wrap it all in a nice educational bow–pointing out the lessons we can learn from these hit videos to apply to our own video marketing efforts

YouTube officially became the America’s Funniest Home Videos of the web when it launched in 2005. With reality shows and programs-making-fun-of-reality-shows being big business, it was only a matter of time before television began to aggregate the best the web had to offer into its own lineup. Within days of each other in June of 2009, Comedy Central’s Tosh.0 and G4′s Web Soup premiered, doing that very thing

It has been an action-packed month for branded viral video on the global ads chart .

Forget America’s Got Talent or X-Factor (if only), YouTube is the best place to unearth fresh and exciting talent these days.

Every week we assemble some of the best and most popular videos from the previous week.