Old Spice’s latest commercial, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, is awesome in a dozen different ways – but it’s also a great example of corporate viral video that works. How many ads get two million views in two weeks on YouTube? Old Spice doesn’t have to have to put a URL in their […]

Kevin Nalty (Nalts) has published a free eBook on How To Become Popular on YouTube Without Any Talent Nalty explains, “The original motive in publishing this was to help people avoid getting scammed by stupid products or services that promise to boost your YouTube views.” He originally published How To Become Popular on YouTube Without […]

The Wall Street Journal has published a decent look at the elements of viral videos. They identify three main elements: Great content – Many popular online videos are short – under three minutes – and have some elements of cognitive dissonance. Excluding celebrity videos, many popular videos are deliberately bizarre juxtapositions, such as HotForWords – […]

http://vimeo.com/3237836 If you liked the viral video hit Where The Hell Is Matt?, here’s another dance music video that looks like it could go viral, Boombox, by Ely Kim, a graduate student at Yale studying graphic design. “I LOVE to dance and I enjoy clouds, mangoes, smiling, and puppies,” explains Kim. Echolot, via Synthtopia

YouTube comedian and video guru Kevin Nalts has posted his take on the importance of topicality and timing for the success of Internet media: Want lots of views on your video? Timing and topicality is important. The reason sxephil and whatthebuck are two of the most-subscribed YouTube amateurs is partially because they vlog about what’s […]

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=01C1850FC6928547 Time has announced their picks for the top viral videos of 2008. You can view them all above, or check out the list below.  The Top 10 Viral Videos Of 2008 Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)  Western Spaghetti by PES  Christian the Lion Hamster On A Piano (Eating Popcorn)  Barack The Vote – […]

A little something for the new year – a look back at a year in 40 seconds. Eirik Solheim‘s One Year In 40 Seconds blends still images taken from the same spot throughout one year.  Details here.

The San Francisco Chronicle has published their take on the year’s top 10 Web viral videos. They don’t explain their criteria – but it’s an interesting list: Tina Fey As Sarah Palin: Not only was Fey’s impression of the Alaskan governor arguably the seminal pop culture event of the year, it also represented a turning […]

Dancing, the latest video from Where The Hell Is Matt‘s Matt Harding, has turned its theme song, Praan, into a Top 20 hit. The song, arranged by composer Garry Schyman and sung by 17 year-old Palbasha Siddique, is one of the Top MP3 Songs at Amazon. “It’s up over Madonna and Mariah Carey,” said Siddique […]

Where the Hell Is Matt (2008), above, is an amazing video that follows Matt Harding around the world, doing a funny little dance and getting lots of other people to dance with him. It’s also a fun example of the power of vlogging and Internet video.