Apple MacBook Air is Obsessed With Thin January 16, 2008
Posted by Nalts in : Making Videos, Online Video, Video Advertising, Viral Video, YouTube, advertising , trackback
Last night I got an e-mail from Mac that showcased the new Apple MacBook Air. The product is interesting and the spot was simple with a contagious song called New Soul by Yael Naim. Although I was already well into my nightly Ambien, I felt I couldn’t pass on a quick parody. About 19 minutes later, I uploaded “Apple MacBook Air Thin Obsession,” which parodies the ad.
My work HP computer (I wouldn’t treat my own so poorly) is watching the ad, and goes on a binge & purge diet. Fortunately my wife had taped a recent episode of Oprah which featured a tearful discussion about weight loss, which lent itself well to the portrayal of sadness the HP feels watching the new models. The parody culminates with my HP bent over the toilet, vomiting its optical drive.
I didn’t monetize the clip on YouTube, because it contains the original song and clips from Oprah. But it’s topical and seems to be well received, although clearly not “PC.” It’s currently the fourth highest rated comedy of the day on YouTube (which usually doesn’t happen within 8 hours), and we’ll see if it viralinates or gets pulled…
I suppose the lesson here is that what this clip lacks in polished production in editing it perhaps makes up for in topicality, quirkiness, and speed. Given that it took less than 20 minutes to conceive, shoot, edit and upload. It shows that there are other variables to viral that are more important… Like making fun of a society obsessed with beauty and thin, and capitalizing on what I’m sure will be a fairly intense media blitz by Apple.
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I told you it was gonna go viral. 20 minutes is fucking awesome. .
link it to the Oprah channel
Laughed out loud at the push ups. Brilliant. I twittered it.
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Great video… Topical, relateable, cute, and clever.
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hysterical - binge and purge - it works on so many levels!
Nalts, you’ve got to check out the MacBook Helium (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pIJK4ilK98).
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