Viral Video Charts: Week's Top Brand-Driven Viral Ads

Viral Video Chart: Carl's Jr. Pimps Sexy Salads and Nestle Taps Olympians

Viral Video Chart: Carl's Jr. Pimps Sexy Salads and Nestle Taps Olympians

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- It's a new year, and it brings several new videos to the viral chart, from Carl's Jr.'s sexed up Kim Kardashian-starring salad spot to Nestle's Olympian-stunt campaign.

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What We Can Learn From the Top Viral Videos of 2009

What We Can Learn From the Top Viral Videos of 2009

Viral video isn't the domain or a single industry, nor is it limited to brands with big budgets. We look at the top videos to hit the top of the chart in 2009.

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Victoria's Secret, Gap Top Viral Video Debuts

Victoria's Secret, Gap Top Viral Video Debuts

Evian may be the viral campaign that will never die -- up 79% this week to pass 2 million views -- but there are five new campaigns on the chart, from Victoria's Secret, Gap, Toyota, NYC Health and Koodo.

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Google Dominates the Viral Video Chart

Google Dominates the Viral Video Chart

Google dominates the viral video chart this week taking three of the top 10 spots with campaigns for Google Goggles, Google Chrome and Google's real-time search.

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LG, Google and Cisco Debut on Viral Video Chart

LG, Google and Cisco Debut on Viral Video Chart

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- LG suggests people think twice, Google hopes people think Chrome and Cisco makes its third debut on the chart with a faux infomercial promoting its SIO to Go iPhone app.

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Sexy Pilgrim Trumps Tillman for Thanksgiving Week's Top Viral Video

Sexy Pilgrim Trumps Tillman for Thanksgiving Week's Top Viral Video

Spoof and shock help two of the three newcomers onto the viral video chart this week while a third counts on playful stop-motion animation.

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Heineken's Boozy Wedding Warns of Drinking Too Much

Heineken's Boozy Wedding Warns of Drinking Too Much

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."

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AT&T's Verizon Lawsuit Gives 'Map for That' Ad New Life

AT&T's Verizon Lawsuit Gives 'Map for That' Ad New Life

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.

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Olympics, VW and Weezer Snuggie Top Viral Video Chart

Olympics, VW and Weezer Snuggie Top Viral Video Chart

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.

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Viral Video: Now That's How You Sell a Mobile Home

Viral Video: Now That's How You Sell a Mobile Home

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.

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Apple Takes Hits From Windows 7, Droid but Prevails

Apple Takes Hits From Windows 7, Droid but Prevails

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.

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DDB Hits Viral High Notes for Volkswagen

DDB Hits Viral High Notes for Volkswagen

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.

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Take That, iPhone: Verizon's 'Map for That' Ad Goes Viral

Take That, iPhone: Verizon's 'Map for That' Ad Goes Viral

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.

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The Long, Viral Lives of Cadbury, T-Mobile and Microsoft

The Long, Viral Lives of Cadbury, T-Mobile and Microsoft

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.

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Microsoft's So-Bad-It's-Good Windows 7 Ad Goes Viral

Microsoft's So-Bad-It's-Good Windows 7 Ad Goes Viral

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.

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'80s Hair Band Dokken Catapults Norton Onto Viral Video Chart

'80s Hair Band Dokken Catapults Norton Onto Viral Video Chart

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.

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Sony Makes Viral Chart With Bullfighting-Meets-Soccer Mash-up

Sony Makes Viral Chart With Bullfighting-Meets-Soccer Mash-up

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.

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Microsoft Finds Viral-Video Success -- Twice

Microsoft Finds Viral-Video Success -- Twice

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.

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Tech Marketers Dominate Viral Video Chart

Tech Marketers Dominate Viral Video Chart

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.

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What's Going Viral? Thrilling Stunts and Hidden-Camera Pranks

What's Going Viral? Thrilling Stunts and Hidden-Camera Pranks

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.

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