The whole world, apparently, and they’re singing about it:
This video was only uploaded less than a week ago and has already amassed nearly 100,000 views. It seems that even if you’re not making a song about your love for Facebook, you’re listening to the song about it or sharing it with friends. The rapid rise of this video gained it some attention form more than just TVV. Views are coming in form websites including Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, The Atlantic and more, and the video was featured on CNN‘s Erin Burnett‘s Out Front Tuesday night.
Patricia Krentcil, known mostly as “Tanning Mom,” has been taking the internet, Youtube included, by storm, er, fire storm. She’s accused of taking her 5-year-old into a tanning bed with her, an accusation that came to light after the child came to school with sun burn and claimed it came from “going tanning with mommy.”
We’ll have to wait and see how the endangerment charges play out, but in the mean time it looks like we;re going to have a lot of entertainment, brought to you by tanning mom.
It always seems to be an exceptional video or a great cause that brings my back to the blog. This one is a little bit of both, but more of the latter.
So this group of kids from URI has got an assignment to go viral and it looks like they are well on their way. They decided to make their video a challenge to people to make the world pink on April 27 for breast cancer awareness. The video has been up about 24 hours and it’s already logged more than 2,600 views. That’s a good start.
They have chose a message that really matters, and they make a direct appeal to specific audiences to do their part. It’s like a challenge, and they encourages people to get on board. They kept the video shorter than 3 minutes, so it holds people’s attention, and they mix it up along the way. Their #Makeitpink branding was a fantastic idea, because it will unite all the sharing of the video, website, and other campaign-related activity, acting like a tag. This video is going to go far.
So on Friday April 27, Make It Pink. Put on pink clothes. Switch out your bag and accessories. Paint your nails. Dye your hair or put on pink make-up. Hang a flyer, tie a ribbon, plant a flower or blow up a balloon. Do whatever you can to make your campus, your community, your own little world as pink as can be.
I’m even going to make it easy and give you everything you need to #makeitpink:
Walk Off the Earth is an indie music band with a unique style that lends itself well to youtube. This video, added only a month ago, has over 65 million views.
Part of it has to do with the current popularity of the song they covered – “Somebody that I used to Know,”by Gotye – but I think most of it has to do with the fact that the video, despite it’s simplicity, is really fantastic. It takes an incredible amount of skill and concentration, on top of musical talent, to do what WOTE did in this video. You can see the focus on their faces, at times, but that’s what makes it great.
If there is one thing that WOTE is good at it’s multitasking, and they take it to the next level in this Beatles cover:
But don’t let the show distract you form the fact that these are some incredbily talented musicians. Check out this cover of The Pogues‘ “Fairytale of New York,” which is less gimmicky with the same amount of talent:
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