Viral Advertising & Marketing

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By Ben Hall • August 10th, 2009

Who has ever seen a free-running cat? You’ll be able to class yourself as one of the lucky few when you view this viral advert for Friskies pet food.

Search giant Google’s competition to find the best physical recreation of its logo has come to a head with some impressive results and a special mention for lego lovers.

Get the full experience of the F1 by watching this, admittedly lengthy, post race debriefing from the Hungarian F1.

Cricket season is in full swing and, everyone wants the boys from down under to be well protected when playing.
Freddie Flintoff kills a pot koala bear to demonstrate this point in a slightly unimpressive, but nonetheless tongue-in-cheek funny, video clip.

Sometimes a viral enters the world that is not of the required quality to make it, well, viral. Those expecting laughs and jokes a-go-go should turn away now.

The viral campaign that is “generating excitement across the web” seems to be falling foul of inaccessibility. For Vodafone’s sake, we hope we’re wrong.

Six people on the summer of a lifetime. One will be killed, another a killer. Tune in to the 20 episode series that creates a murder mystery universe across the web.

Expect this to get big throughout the day depending on what happens. BreakingNewsOn (BNO) are reporting that a massive earthquake is putting New Zealand under a Tsunami threat.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a Tsunami Warning for New Zealand after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake.
Hopefully, all warnings will be fruitless and no wave will hit, but [...]

HTC Hero have possibly hit viral gold with their new freerunning, Street Heroes campaign. Most popular on YouTube this week and with a second video rising through the ranks, will this make it big?

Don’t let the confusing tagline put you off. Nokia’s video may be lacking a certain viral quality but discussion of the new N97 is making a storm on the interweb.