What happens when you give funny car junkies (who happen to have their own television show called “Gear Head” on the BBC) the assignment to make a Volkswagen ad? The videos below show the completed ads (and this controversy is months old, but wonderfully new to me). This series of ads is so wonderfully offensive (and resulted…
No, all social-media articles don’t have to suck. MediaPost’s Kelly Samardak takes us into a speakeasy during a social-media Mental Prohibition in this coverage of “Digital Cocktails: Keys to Social Media Success.” The piece, part business and human interest, chronicles the event — hosted at the NYC studios of ForYourImagination (where you can pass the social-media “dutchie on the…
When do you book your plane flight to AdTech (April) in San Fran? a) When you commit to speaking b) When Daisy Whitney reminds you c) When AdTech puts you on its homepage d) A week before the event because you forgot e) Never because you don’t know the difference between LA and SanFran, so…
It was absolute torture to be spending 3 hours on my 1-hour commute (snow) and not having the time to parody the iPad. So many thoughts, and no time to make a video. But I took solace in finding that MidnightBlade created this brilliant parody of Hitler’s response. The Hitler parodies are not new, and…
I’m not a regular CurrentTV checker, so thanks to Mark for alerting me to “Viral Video Film School” in the comments of my last post. He also recommended SuperNews on Current, and I was not disappointed with “The Christmas Bailout.” Below is a Brett Erlich video capturing 2009’s finest moments in the form of a quiz. You’ve heard…
Semantics be important… especially for a relatively novel “space” like online video. For starters, I never much cared for the term “viral” marketing, because it had sick connotation. Like my marketing might make someone sick enough to cough on another hapless patsy. Then comes the term “viral” videos to celebrate the wonderfully horrible videos one…
Just discovered Vidque.com via Steve Garfield, and it’s another example of a site built to solve the fundamental problem for those of us that don’t live in online-video. What the hell do we watch? Since I just spent more than a couple hours navigating Vidque, creating a profile and critiquing it… you’d better f’ing read…
Just when I was feeling mortal for falling off the top 100 most-subscribed YouTube partner list (a fact that ZackScott and PeterCoffin felt compelled to remind me via voicemail), I scored placement on Huffington Post via the lovely and talented Daisy Whitney. Check out this report from iMediaConnection in Vegas (or LA or SanFran, I’m…
If there’s one thing more fun than speaking to hundreds of marketers before a giant video of yourself like a “Rolling Stones” concert, it’s to read Twitter “tweets” after you speak. By searching #mweek and @nalts after my talk on Wednesday, I learned what “stuck” with the Toronto “Canadian Marketing Association” audience. Canadians are nice,…
They itch. My nuts itch. Can I scratch them? Will you scratch my nuts? Can I scratch my nuts? Itchy Nuts DUI – Watch more Funny Videos