Google's Brainwashing, Time Wasting 'Pizza' Ad

Friday, 24 September 2010. Posted in News, Viral Video, Google, Business

Google Pizza

Google are leaving the digital world rather confused today with the viral-isation of their latest ad for 'Search with my location', fittingly entitled 'Pizza'.

The excruciatingly irritating 10-minute long video sees the (presently unknown) character cycle through a series of random backdrops, whilst attempting to search for pizza with his voice using the Google iOS app. The baffling absurdity of already finding local results 18 seconds in, before wasting a further 10 minutes of our lives is only exacerbated by the fact he's using an iPhone 4 as opposed to one of Google's heavily pushed Android handsets.

Excluding a Chrome speed test ad or two, Google hasn't exactly been a player to dabble in viral marketing. At least now we know why. Read on for the full video...

Celebrating 25 Years Of Mario: Top 5 YouTube Tributes

Monday, 13 September 2010. Posted in Gaming, Features

Mario

It was this fateful day in 1985 that Nintendo released Super Mario Bros to the world. Well twenty-five years down the line and over 200 game appearances later, everyone's favorite Italian-American plumber is still saving peach, beating bowser and generally just kicking ass. Thus, Mario has been forever immortalised as the founding mascot for the console video game.

Unsurprisingly the mushroom kingdom crusader has built an epic fan-base, stretching over numerous gaming consoles and genres. From the best-selling platform games to racing, role-play, fighting and sports, there's a Mario for everyone!

What better way to pay hommage on this silver celebration than by handing over to the YouTube generation. So without further ado, here's our top 5 YouTube tributes to the one and only super Mario.

YouTube Shows Off More Interactive Viral Ads With 'A hunter shoots a bear'

Friday, 03 September 2010. Posted in News, Viral Video, Business

Just over a week after The Last Exorcism's Chatroulette campaign received mainstream media coverage, YouTube is showing what it can do to turn heads with it's latest interactive takeover ad.

We don't want to give it away before you get to see this awesome video, but 'A hunter shoots a bear' takes over the top half of the web page and literally pulls the featured product out from it's residing ad, to change the course of the video in the coolest and most interactive way we've ever seen!

The product in question is actually Tipp-Ex. You know, that white fluid you use to 'white and rewrite' your sloppy pen habits. Although this may seem as unsuspecting-an-advertiser as Old Spice initially did to the YouTube generation, the way in which the product is integrated is just as clever.
Watch a hunter shoots a bear on YouTube.
(Read on for CNBC's discussion with entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk regarding Chatroulette and viral marketing.)