urn:uuid:75cd66a9-340d-27d3-d696-f1f4428f24c7 2009-11-27T23:20:52-05:00 AdAge Staff urn:uuid:2183ac1b-714b-1ad5-75f7-aada2774222c

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Proving there's no one recipe for viral success the most-watched chart bows six new spots this week, including at No. 1 a new PSA from Heineken called "Know the Signs."]]>

2009-11-25T10:00:00-05:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:a13d9abc-e5ac-5d44-8725-4365abee0004

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Marketing experts warned it would happen -- and it did. Suing Verizon over its "Map for That" ad only called attention to the ad and AT&T's weakness.]]>

2009-11-19T08:00:00-05:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:6b0aab18-8442-b60b-5728-0088637ad234

The International Olympics Committee debuted in the top spot with videos of its athletes issuing unusual challenges to viewers and Weezer nabbed No. 3 with its Snuggie tie-in.]]>

2009-11-12T08:00:00-05:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:b1010cd3-9683-da06-3047-45a639e03271

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Microbilt's "I Love Local Commercials" campaign dropped into the viral video chart this week, led by a dramatic pitch, created by YouTuber's Rhett & Link, for an Alabama-based mobile-home business.]]>

2009-11-05T08:00:00-05:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:11d8e30b-e4e9-1987-321c-2735b7af8aad

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Microsoft launched its much-ballyhooed OS Windows 7 last week, but it was Apple's counterpunch that drew the web views.]]>

2009-10-29T10:52:00-04:00 mlearmonth@adage.com(Michael Learmonth) urn:uuid:4b7246f8-82b0-7f5a-5de6-af7f617a0462

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- A viral ad produced in Europe wasn't enough to win Volkswagen's business in the U.S., apparently. Omnicom Group's DDB was just eliminated from the VW sweepstakes in the U.S., but its digital ad from DDB Stockholm and Tribal DDB, part of the "The Fun Theory" campaign, debuted at No. 2 on Ad Age Viral Video Chart.]]>

2009-10-22T10:14:00-04:00 mlearmonth@adage.com(Michael Learmonth) urn:uuid:b0397245-d8a4-0c60-c528-c6fca0e927f8

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The newest debut on the chart isn't cute or cuddly, it's not a spoof or a prank and it doesn't make you ask "How'd they do that?" But Verizon's "There's a Map for That" ad was good enough to snare the No. 6 spot this week.]]>

2009-10-15T08:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:70b17f7a-3720-b582-5231-dfc6f3535c69

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- If the ad campaigns on this week's viral video chart look familiar, they should: They've all been here before.]]>

2009-10-08T08:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:909aa65f-277b-bc0a-9c46-6d364e2e57cf

MoveOn.org and Microsoft notch top spots on the viral video chart this week. But mainstays such as Evian's Rollerbabies and Microsoft's Project Natal gain as well.]]>

2009-10-01T08:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:3f1aeec0-3bfc-cf36-7364-10a0c2678a14

Antivirus software maker Norton uses one of those so-bad-they're-good videos to make the No. 4 spot in this week's Viral Video Chart.]]>

2009-09-24T12:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:8389618c-a4ef-e04d-13ab-e8fa01e56c9a

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Hold on to your hat -- and maybe your stomach, too. There were no tripods involved in the filming of the wild Sony video that debuted in the ten spot, featuring a mash-up of a pickup soccer game and a bullfight.]]>

2009-09-17T10:07:41-04:00 aklassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:04b2d9e8-425e-1455-48d5-4589f5f6b5cc

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Microsoft is proving its staying power on the viral-video chart with two spots again this week, including the No. 2 spot with "Megawoosh" and the No. 5 spot with its Project Natal trailer.]]>

2009-09-10T09:04:57-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:5eb93e68-52c5-38b5-6c8d-cbfac9540b56

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Five new videos hit the chart this week, and three of them are from computer makers -- can you tell it's back-to-school season? That's in addition to the two Microsoft videos, which have been mainstays of late, and two very (unintentionally?) funny infomercials.]]>

2009-09-03T09:45:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:8d0d86fe-6000-98d4-ddf1-d726767e1f60

As they have for the past several weeks, Evian with its roller-skating babies and Microsoft with its gigantic waterslide continue to battle it out for the No. 1 spot on the Viral Video Chart. But Danny MacAskill's Inspired Bicycles video and Office Max's "Penny Pranks" campaign provided new blood.]]>

2009-08-27T10:50:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:1fa7e5d1-4e7a-538c-bf00-536a460f29ca

What's more popular than Evian's "Roller Babies"? The world's largest Slip 'n Slide. Microsoft's "Megawoosh" campaign has successfully displaced Evian at the top of the Viral Video Chart, with almost 2.3 million views.]]>

2009-08-20T08:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:074989eb-c36f-397c-eb04-d5354cca283c

Walmart's Miley Cyrus-Max Azria collaboration made the Viral Video Chart this week with close to 500,000 views. Microsoft, Nike Skateboarding and Evian's rollerskating babies rounded out the action.]]>

2009-08-13T11:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:14c2ad3f-19a4-a97e-0291-2dde9cc35d71

Nike Skateboarding's "Today Was a Good Day" effort and Frito-Lay's "A Woman's World" campaign are the fresh videos on this week's chart, which was still dominated by Evian's rollerskating babies.]]>

2009-08-06T08:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:7e249661-f5ce-fb25-121b-80dc33fe6b78

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Perhaps it's the summer weather or vacations beckoning, but this week's Viral Video Chart showed little movement from last week's. All the campaigns should look, well, familiar -- they were all on the chart last week.]]>

2009-07-30T08:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:098bdfc9-15b8-74c0-250e-183252e9cd6e

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Yep, it's still true: Cute and cuddly always work on the web. Need more proof? Evian's rollerskating babies added another 12 million views last week to top the viral-ad chart, just 14% fewer than its prior record-breaking performance.]]>

2009-07-23T11:55:00-04:00 mlearmonth@adage.com(Michael Learmonth) urn:uuid:dd46a5ee-f378-9226-70ba-d8ffa2c65492

Evian's rollerskating-babies campaign generated buzz for its cuteness factor, its weirdness factor and, as Visible Measures pointed out, for having multiple creative iterations, many receiving more than 1 million views each.]]>

2009-07-16T10:59:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:0b4c668a-3e06-f4b5-5d11-ecc178eb0093

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- With a whopping almost 4 million views -- that's a record single-week view count for the Viral Video Chart -- Air New Zealand returns to the chart with its "Nothing to Hide" campaign.]]>

2009-07-09T08:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:9c396138-bf7f-2bb9-4cb5-e432dfd4e553

Carl's Jr. snuck onto the Viral Video Chart this week in the No. 10 spot with its video of "The Hills" star Audrina Patridge eating a Teriyaki burger in a gold bikini.]]>

2009-07-02T08:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:c329efed-f24e-ba9a-a2e0-6fcb05227dba

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Just because there's a market for your online video doesn't mean there's a market for the product it's hawking, an important lesson illustrated by this week's No. 4-spot debut.]]>

2009-06-25T10:35:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:c2e1da71-38e9-29da-b8d7-d39b473cc392

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2009-06-18T10:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:b6af0833-cf56-3043-43a6-f020114e9145

Carl's Jr. tapped YouTube's No. 2-most-subscribed channel, from a comedy group called Nigahiga, to push its new portobello-mushroom burger -- and it has paid off, in 3.3 million views last week.]]>

2009-06-11T10:00:28-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:cafe61a8-639a-fdd1-35ba-70ca106c7382

NEW YORK (Ad Age.com) -- What is it about the "hair down there"? Philips found viral success with its "Shave Everywhere" videos, and this week's Viral Video Chart finds Gillette making its debut at No. 3 with a how-to video about how to groom the more manly parts of the body.]]>

2009-06-04T08:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:5c689aa9-c0a9-8318-2934-1b599f504e1c

Spots from Nike and the NBA show that basketball is on lots of people's minds around playoff time -- and that the news can fuel viral activity.]]>

2009-05-28T08:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:b55f8f84-05f6-a16a-c36b-a9ab4c7ed800

There's fresh blood on the Viral Video Chart this week, with a whopping five new videos that snagged enough views to break into the top 10.]]>

2009-05-21T11:20:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:e3d4b724-e994-3282-1667-caecc196ae5d

For the first time since Visible Measures and Ad Age started publishing the Viral Video Chart, a new campaign has nabbed the top spot. With 785,160 views, Vodafone's "Make the Most of Now" makes its debut as the week's most watched.]]>

2009-05-14T11:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen) urn:uuid:49aedcba-7631-7017-d350-9b2b70c165db

NEW YORK (Ad Age.com) -- A few weeks back we asked whether the threshold for making it onto the Viral Video Chart was getting higher. Well, two weeks later it doesn't appear to be the case. This week saw relatively few shifts in the three mainstays, which have appeared on the chart every week since we launched it: Samsung's "LED Sheep," T-Mobile's "Dance" and Cadbury's "Eyebrow Dance."]]>

2009-05-07T12:00:00-04:00 aklaassen@adage.com(Abbey Klaassen)