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Maybelline's CGI-stunt with London buses with lashes and New York mascara buses has gone viral.

Maybelline has released two creative CGI films, one showing a silver mascara driving through New York, and the other showing London buses with eyelash

Patrick Quinn, co-founder of ALS Ice Bucket challenge has died

Quinn co-created the challenge that became a viral sensation with celebrities taking part, died Sunday, age 37.
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Barilla - The Rooftop Match with Roger Federer (2020) 3:51 (Italy)

One of the most fun videos that went viral during the Italian lockdown was when Carola and Vittoria, two teenagers from Finale Ligure, in Italy, found

"Get a grip", the ASAI banned a Tampax ad, the ad has now gone viral, discussed everywhere

The ASAI upheld complaints that the ad contained general offense, but not that it was demeaning to women or had sexual innuendo.

Discover Card “Yes We’re Accepted” (2020) :15 (USA)

A bunch of famous "yes" clips from cult movies and cute viral babies all add up the point that Discover card is accepted in 95% of locations

Ubrew - The Legendary Beer Heroes have been found, and we brewed beer with them

I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed this idea and now wish I was a viral beer hero just so I could help brew a blood orange saison.
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Smart car run with pigeon poop joke in case study.

Smart car responded to Clayton's tweetjoke with a neat infographic about bird poop, and we applauded how faboo their attitude was, as they took a

Rock Paper Scissors Cuts Viral Hit for Pepsi MAX / Pepsi MAX & Kyrie Irving Present Uncle Drew

Throughout the NBA Finals, Pepsi MAX drove millions of basketball fans across the world to a YouTube video profiling a breakout hoops sensation: a 70-

Smart Car just outsmarted all other cars on SM

When resident adgrunt @Claymore a.k.a Clayton Hove quipped "Saw a bird had crapped on a Smart Car.
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Hunter and Bear are back for Tippexperience timetravel on youtube

Last time we saw the hunter and the bear we could change the story and have him tickle the bear, play soccer with the bear, party with the bear..
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Ron Jeremy does christian anti-porn ad. With sheep.

The Idealists - Dogboarding (2011) 2:14 music video

The IdeaLists launched a year ago with the remit of being a 'matchmaker for ideas, opportunities and talent'.
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Jennifer Aniston Sex tape - possible the worst "viral" ever made.

Celebrity spokesperson with fans who love to see her "be herself"? Check! Keenan Cahill lip syncing? Check!
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The Alpha-1 fake wrapping of the statue of Liberty

So the story goes "12 rolls of industrial shrink wrap, 8 messengers, 1 mission", and the mission is to wrap the statue of liberties head in

Vodafone Double Rainbow - (2011) :60 (New Zealand)

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Studio total who burns money are being burned by the Arvika festival

Recently Studio Total have been in the news for the donation of 100,000 SEK to the Feminist Party which the party leader promptly burned up on a BBQ.
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Burning money PR trick backfires: Tomas Mazetti from Studio Total responds.

On July 6th Tomas Mazetti and Per Eriksson from Studio Total donated 100,000 of their taxed personal stash to the political party Feministiskt Initiat
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Smirnoff "icing" drinking game, is it an agency made viral or a human made viral?

The New York Times has an interesting article up Popular New Drinking Game Raises Question, Who’s ‘Icing’ Whom?.
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Will Karen26 please the Cannes jury? It did after all "go viral".....

#Karen26 as she was known on Twitter, the "Danish mother desperately seeking..." the father of her son August which created quite the viral

Qualcomm explains recent butterfly attacks on men: due to stolen prototype

Butterfly attack #1
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Master Kong invents a new way of seeding their viral to adsites.

Did y'all know I've gotten cynical over the years? Nooo, say it ain't so the crowd roars in mock shock, but yep, I have.

Ashley Madison attempts the "Banned Ad" thing. *yawn*

pcoming Oscars, while the U.S. is not. Yea free speech down under! Or is it more, yeah good taste in the U.S.? Latter!

Vizio - Beyonce / HDTV - (2010)

So, the numa numa guy, chocolate rain's Tay Zonday and even the dramatic chipmunk make an apperance once again in adverts.
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Adland's 10 by 10 - Top Ten new ad space ideas in the past ten years.

Another countdown to 2010, in the past ten years the internet (and this website) has matured its way up to "2.0", everyone on earth learned
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Adland's 10 by 10 - Top Ten Spec ads that went viral in the past ten years.

Lego: Rebuild it. First it was posted on various adblogs as if Saatchi & Saatchi, Guangzhou, China really had Lego approval on this image.
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Arvika Festival / Cum to Arvika - (2009)

Arvika festival tried their darndest, but they weren't allowed to air this film on TV in Sweden.
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Radiotjänst Tackfilm has already clocked 5 million unique views

DraftFCB know that Ego still drives virals.
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Comhem - Web Hits / Viral homage / Youtube Hits by Judit & Judit - (2009) :45 (Sweden)

Judit & Judit the comhem girls who already nod to Snapple's Wanda, have created a homage to all those virals out there in this 45 spot to cel
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Orange "further together"

Goth army clean up beaches in France?

This youtube film shows a bunch a Goths driving my old chevvy with my bumper-sticker still on it. Then it gets weirder.
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Not quite done with #Karen26 - this what you did wrong Grey and GoViral.

You'd think the posse at Grey and the startup rocket GoViral would have a bigger clue when it came to virals, but alas the Karen26 hoopla has sho
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Obama Joker Socialism Creator Revealed — And It Only Gets More Confusing

OK, I'll admit to some mixed feelings about the U.S.'s health care reform. But the Obama as Joker Socialist poster just baffled me.

"Cape shopper finds human teeth in wallet"

This cracked me up. No, not the bizarre find of human teeth in a lost wallet, but the comments made to the article at Boston.com.
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Sneaky stealth advertising for an upcoming Zombie flick, or just hackers having fun?

I would love for this to be a real sneaky campaign for an upcoming Zombie Flick, I love Zombie flicks. I need to eat braaaiiins!
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Ok, what the hell IS that? A racoon? A Dog? A viral ad campaign?

Gawker calls it Montauk Monstergate because nobody believes this is the carcass of a racoon or possibly a smallish dog.
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Nike's Freestyle Basketball youtube viral bores me like all other fake virals.

I'm getting sick of these fake stunts posted to youtube that are secret little ads, aren't you?
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Spec work going around the web as real ads - is there any way to stop that? Should we even try?

Remember that Toyota Prius campaign that Well, at least he drives a prius, right?
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Anyone care to guess what this is an ad for? Russian man goes mad beserk in office.

So this video, showing a man in a Russian office go all postal, throwing monitors and grabbing an axe to chop up the veal-fattening pens seems like a
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Weezer - 'Pork And Beans' video - (2008) 3:18 (USA)

Features Kevin Federline , Tay Zonday of 'Chocolate Rain' fame, nunchuck guy, Nima Nima dude, Miss South Carolina, and "Leave Britney a

Butler, Shine & Stern get boingboing backlash for their Lego viral

Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners has LucasArts games as client, there will soon be some Indiana Jones/Lego game as far as we can tell.

Mythbusters tried "dynamite surfing" just like in that viral ad.

Politiken.dk tells Danish viewers to catch the Mythbusters episode "lead ballon" on the Discovery Channel on Sunday, as the mythbusters team

The Dragon and the beer - Golden Fire, unconventionally strong Heineken

They had a giant Dragon egg sculpture in the centre of Turin, did guerrilla with giant dragon teeth strewed over the city, "did wild posting, sta
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Emergency Party Button

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The Mexican version of "in an absolut world" map of North America, ticks off people in the USA

The Mexican version of the north american map in their installment of the "In an absolut world" campaign, LA Times blogs gossips that the ad
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"Be kind, rewind" - Ok, I will!

Adland's own hot-shot director Michel Gondry has a new movie coming out called "Be Kind Rewind." In it two guys who work in a video sto
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Gatorade - Man's Best Friend (2008) 0:30 (USA)

The dog that never stops drinking.

Triumph Bikes Viral - "TRIUMPH ROCKET 3"

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Cadbury's - Gorilla - (2007) :90 (UK)

Gorilla plays the drums. This solo, is the solo that all air drummers have air drummed at some point in their life.

Dodge Dutch Nitro Dog ad pulled by Chrysler Group USA

In yet another classic "what works there won't work over here" story US based consumers were aghast at the Dodge Nitro ad where a poor
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Consumer-generated Ads can be GREAT!!

Consumer-generated Ads can (indeed) be great.
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Draftfcb paints a picture of The Colonel for KFC

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Online companies' ads get around $2.5 million Super Bowl air time

Technorati - WTF Using footage from The Big Lebowski, shows how Technorati will help the Donnies of the world understand why everyone's talking

How the street Picasso does it

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Adult Swim ATHF LED billboards cause havoc in Boston, MA

A guerilla marketing stunt for Adult Swim's Aqua Teen Hunger Force by Interference Inc., NYC turned the city of Boston upside down for a while to
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Spy Post puts finishing touches on Rolling Rocks Beer Ape

Goodby, Silverstein & Partners Rolling Rock campaign which nods to the eighies metal reign with it's big hair and poolparties has apparently
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Kodak, their moments and face recognition.

As the story goes, this is an internal use video created by and for Kodak, that became so popular they decided to release it for external viewing.
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More "viral" mishaps. Sony takes a beating.

The All I want for Xmas rubbish Sony Fake Blog is "worse than McDonalds Blog, Walmart Blog, LonelyGirl combined" says Kate Zimmermann and I&
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Asa Bailey the one trick pony?

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Cobranded brand hijack / Mentos and Coke

Adgrunt may23rd2007 (interesting name) has been on a mission since May to tag</A> all cobranded ads with the word <
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The Attention Economy and Hoax Marketing

The information age has become an attention economy. Michael H.
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Coca Cola advertisement with Jack White song "leaked"

Last August, we reported on the rumor of White Stripes' Jack White to write and sing a song for Coca Cola.
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Correction Fluid ads that never were, never seen again

We've obliged the ad agency involved and removed the spec ads for a brand of correction fluid which initially were sent in and posted as live wor
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Correction fluid HQ in the USA, tells us to remove Correction fluid Chile ads.

Well there's no real way to sugarcoat that one, aye?

Tooheys - 'Catapult' (2006) :90 (Australia)

This is a big ad. An epic big ad. I dunno what they put in the beer down under but it clearly sparks for big ad budgets.
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Strawberry Frog viral for Onitsuka Tiger

Strawberry Frog has done a viral for Onitsuka Tiger, available here at putfile "Lovely football Karoke", and like their previous breath of f
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Pimp-Mon-Mobile.com : a new viral video by Nokia (France)

Nokia has just launched a new viral video to promote its Nokia 6600 phone towards teenagers and students on the French market.

Toyota Tacoma - Meteor (2005) 0:30 (USA)

A giant meteor comes flying down.
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Ford Viral movies from Belgium

Check out https://www.lookingforamiracle.be. Which is Ford's first viral movie attempt in Belgium. It holds 3 clips.

Tiger Woods Masters cliffhanging putt becomes Nike ad

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