Posts Tagged ‘viral’

We’ve put together a list of the top 10 YouTube-made stars of 2011. The list includes some serious talent, as well as a few people that achieved YouTube fame for some not-so-nice reasons. Who is your favorite YouTube-made star of 2011?

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

On December 18, 2011, 18-year old high school senior Ben Breedlove uploaded a very personal video to YouTube about living with a heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and multiple near death experiences. Just one week later, on Christmas day, Ben died of the heart condition and his emotional video has gone viral as a result.

In October of 2010, Cebu Pacific Airlines flight attendants went viral with a safety flash dance that got over 5 million views in 5 days. Just over a year after going viral, the Cebu Pacific flight attendants have returned with a brand new flash dance to celebrate the holiday season.

Social video sharing and online video advertising are exploding, and if you don’t believe it just check out Unruly Media’s Viral Spiral! The Viral Spiral is an interactive visualization of the exponential growth of video sharing over the past five years, featuring the most-shared ads from today all the way back to 2006.

Striking it viral can be difficult. There’s no exact recipe or formula and going viral requires luck (and frequently money as well), but ProBlogger has done a little research and asserts that, even if you can’t guarantee virality, understanding the key components of what makes content go viral can help you ensure that your great content gets “the attention it deserves.”

Have you seen the crazy video making the rounds this week in which a crazy guy cuts a parking meter off with a saw to avoid getting a parking ticket?

Pro Infirmis, a Swiss organization that helps people with disabilities, conducted an experiment. They dressed up a disabled man, Fabian, in a cuddly bear costume and dropped him in the middle of a city square to give out hugs. This week the video is going viral, inspiring people everywhere to get closer.

This week’s cute video roundup features a few fun cat videos (including the world’s longest domestic cat!), a dog-saxophone duet, and an adorable sneeze reaction. So sit back, relax and prepare yourself for cute overload!

What would you do if you were out on a movie date and entered the theater with your date to discover that the entire theater was filled with big tough biker dudes, except for two lone seats in the middle?

Today is the first day of fall and we’ve decided to bid Summer 2011 farewell with a roundup of some of the best viral videos from the season. We’ve picked out thirty videos that we think sum up the best of the best to hit YouTube this summer. Check them all out after the jump!