vice presidential debate

palin's debate in a nutshell

The Great Schlep

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

Head of Skate

LINK: "Head of Skate" Movie Trailer

the dark bail-out

the economic crisis has cracked its way into viral mediums

microsoft's new add campaign

after the seinfeld/ gates disaster here's microsoft's new add campaign
LINK: PC's new add

daily show breaks down the republican rhetoric

in the spirit of the presidential campaign 2008

ode to joy - muppets style

this can't be natural

WTF lady?! put down the fraking camera and go find your leprechaun gold!!!....
Link: Crazy Sprinkler Lady

wind river gear shop

invention.org

Dead Monster Washes Ashore in Montauk

perhaps something viral. i'm not seeing any type of news link other than this: LINK

the Heart Attack Grill

Link: the Heart Attack Grill
6185 W Chandler Blvd
Chandler, Arizona 85226
11am-9pm Monday-Saturday

http://gizmodo.com/5030561/microsofts-mojave-bait+and+switch-vista-experiment-video

Hi World.

here's a nice little link to a vid on gizmodo where microsoft trys to be cute with vista. i'm still not buying it.

bush vs. batman

link: full-size video "Bush vs. Batman video"

faceless people follow-up

faceless people reveal their ad campaign for the lotus car
link: lotus car (faceless people) website

Bork Bork Bork Meep Meep Meep La la La LAH!!

watchmen trailer

i haven't wanted to see a movie badly since "Debbie Does Des Moines"

radiohead - house of cards music video

Radiohead is at it again, their new music video contains 3D data that can be manipulated in real time.
link: Gizmodo article about the video
link: house of cards visualizer (where you can manipulate the data, as the music video is playing)

chuck norris meets super mario bro.s

news update

story: Iranians photoshop missile test
follow up to story: photoshop challenge

...i only post this news update, because it was found through viral means. as of now, the major news corporations have yet to cover it.

Michael Bay's Rejected "The Dark Knight" Script

i'm calling bullshit on this one.
link: supposedly michael bay's rejected script for "the Dark Knight"

Sacha Baron Cohen's upcoming movie

borat is at it again, this time as a gay man in Arkansas named Bruno.
click here for link to article descibing his latest stunt

the phoenix intro

ok folks, i seriously pride myself about my extensive useless knowledge of old tv shows. but really, i do not remember this one.

i'm actually kinda thankfull for it.

And now, ladies and gentlemen. i give to you: SINGING BATMAN! Yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

* best if read in kermit the frog voice *


/ i hated it.
// there were parts that weren't that bad
///it was great!

techno chicken

It's been slow after the 4th. but here we are, back with another weird one for you all. this reminds me, i have to dig up that techno viking vid now.

Hellboy 2 promos

Ryanair press conference

i'll take one business class ticket, please.

faceless people

we think its an ad for Lotus Cars. people going around to various public events, wearing faceless masks (trying to act like aliens or something, i suppose).
read more:
link: faceless people website
link: mail online's article about faceless people
link: io9's article

The coolest Sylvania Light Bulb

Every now and then our crack team of monkeys find something truely, truely odd.
This would be one of them.

chinese do-it-yourself helicopter

another chinese man-made flying machine. we believe this one to be fake. not sure yet what they're trying to sell. maybe a sequel (or remake) of the movie "Explorers" will be coming out soon.

Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta

another classic viral video that had its 15 minutes come and go.

introducing Michael Emerson

Michael Emerson (Ben from LOST) in
a Federal Prison Video: How to Restrain an Inmate.

history of viral videos

for those of you who want some background or history of viral videos
"The term viral video refers to video clip content which gains widespread popularity through the process of Internet sharing, typically through email or IM messages, blogs

and other media sharing websites.
While the viral video phenomenon has occurred in a largely unstructured manner, a number of organizations are attempting to find marketing strategies that rely on the

distribution of viral video, with mixed results." (**i stole that quote from wikipedia, because i was too lazy to write it myself).
anyways, here are some of the classic viral videos:


"the Star Wars Kid"



"the Dramatic Hamster"



"the Sneezing Panda"



"the Numa-Numa Song"



"the Crazy German Gamer"



"the Evolution of Dance"



"Chocolate Rain"



"What-What in the butt"



some external links to some viral songs/videos:
the bananaphone
badgers
ninja by 7 seconds of love

and then there's the classic:
"We Like the Moon"


which became one of the original viral ad campaigns


because of the cheap budget costs, and internet popularity such ad campaigns, no one seemed to care that most of the time they just simply suck.
and so viral campaigns began infesting the advertising industry ever since....
with such internets campaigns like:

happy banking kittens from australia

burger kings "the Subservient Chicken" (this one is actually kinda cool)

the "Ford Sport Ka"



the horrific "7 days of Sentra" campaign ***see earlier post because i ain't reposting that crap.

Viral Marketing even began infesting movies with such campaigns like:
"Cloverfield" which sucked so bad the only way to draw people to it was to really a trailer that didn't show anything, and then let the internet imply the rest.

"Forgetting Sarah Marshall" which ran billboard advetisiments which simply read "Sarah, you suck" and had no information about the movie what-so-ever...designed to build up hype via word-of-mouth (this movie though was pretty good, so i forgive this viral campaign, even though it annoyed me before the movie came out)

and "snakes on a plane" in which the internets popularity forced the movie studio to keep the title, despite being a failure at the box office (***viral campaigns dont always work as planned)

these differring form other word-of-mouth campaigns (like the movie "Serenity" which pushed back its release date 6 months to build up fan hype) in that the viral ads, were designed to let the internet create the advertising campaign.


its only a matter of time before we start seeing LOL cats in comericals.

and in closing i would like to leave you with the classic internets viral video
"All your base belong to us"

bmw flies car to america

bmw has been does viral style campaigns for a while now. and usually very cool ones.
the oldest ones i can remember were "The Hire" shorts, where bmw hired clive owen and several big name directors to create several short films using bmw cars. click here to see those viedos.
here is their latest video:

seven days of sentra

i know this is beyond old, but for those who missed it, there was a time when nissan tried convincing the public that you could live out of a car for a week. (they even created a myspage page that we can't find anymore [thank goodness])

yeah... not exactly a selling point in my opinion, i've tried it before, it's called being evicted.
i wish nissan would do a follow up with this where we find his rotting corpse stuck in a junkyard.
/does not work for nissan.

amazingly fake ball girl catch

nicely put together... our team of digital monkies still haven't figured out what the ad is for. but we wish we had women around to catch balls like that.
thank to lummage for finding that.

A Chinese farmer-made airplane

not sure yet if this one is fake or not, but its on our suspect list

cell phone popcorn

some more older videos: the cell phones popping popcorn.
simply a pathetic cell phone add.

wanted

viral video for the movie "wanted"
this one is old but we just started up so we have some catching up to do

viral mediums mission statement

hello world. welcome to viral mediums.
viral mediums is simply a catalogue of viral campaigns.
the purpose of this blog is to catalog and index the growing and vast collection of viral ads out there on the internets.

please feel free to send us suggestions for any viral suspect videos, as our expert panel of interweb junkies are not always able to catch them all because we are either lazy or just too busy to be wasting time surfing the internets.