You may have seen a crazy video making the rounds this week in which a crazy guy cutting a parking meter off with a saw to avoid getting a parking ticket.  The video’s description read, "caught this guy on my iPhone during a cab ride in Brooklyn: a cop was giving these two guys a ticket because their van was parked by an expired parking meter and one of them got really mad and cut off the meter with a saw!!! Gotta love Brooklyn!"  It’s true.  Crazy things do happen in Brooklyn.  But today Thinkm [...]

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Over the summer, YouTube revealed that hundreds of partners are now making six-figure incomes, but how much do individual video partnerships make?  Earlier this week Claire Cain Miller of The New York Times reported that it may be more than you think.  Cute videos of kids going viral could be enough to send the kids to college and more, and though YouTube expressly forbids their partners to reveal exactly how much money they make from YouTube, they’ve revealed some pretty nice estimations.
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"We believe that viral video is a myth," Jun Group CEO and Founder Mitchell Reichgut told me in a Skype call yesterday afternoon.  What does he mean by "myth"?  Basically, he means that the idea that a video can get millions of views on its own, without a very well funded and constructed strategy or a push from mainstream media, is bogus.


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Originally published at NikisNotes.com You expect young tech startups and hip software companies to lead the way when it comes to social media. So it’s a nice surprise to see an exciting campaign coming from more established brands. RadioShack, a 90-year-old retail brand, has been dusting off its image in big ways and its use [...]

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It’s been a while since I’ve seen a successful branded viral video campaign that clearly featured the brand’s name or logo. Going viral with branded content is one of the biggest challenges for viral video marketers these days and usually if a video even mentions the name of the product or service that it is [...]

Read More: How Skittles Did The Impossible, Branded Viral Video Success

What would you do if you were out on a movie date and entered the theater with your date to discover that the entire theater was filled with big tough biker dudes, except for two lone seats in the middle?  An awesome new Carlsberg viral campaign set out to see how couples would react to a theater filled with not-so-friendly gents.  The video has racked up a whopping 1.3 million views in under a week and has the Internet abuzz as people talk about how they would react.


Read More: Watch: Carlsberg Goes Viral With Awesome Movie Theater Prank

Fall is officially here and we’ve decided to bid Summer 2011 farewell with a roundup of some of the best viral videos from the season.  We’ve picked out thirty videos that we think sum up the best of the best to hit YouTube this summer.  They all have over 1 million views, resulted in tons of conversation and, in our opinion, are definitely worth watching.  So without further ado we bring you…30 of the best viral videos of summer 2011!


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On September 20, 2011, the United States "Don’t Ask Don’t Tell" (DADT) policy on homosexuals serving in the military was officially repealed—a huge victory for LGBT communities and supporters everywhere.  The moment that DADT came to an end, US soldiers began celebrating by coming out to their friends, family and fellow soldiers.  One Air Force soldier video taped himself coming out to his dad on the phone and posted it to YouTube.  The emotional video has racked up over 1.5 million views so far [...]

Read More: Viral Radar: Soldier Comes Out To Dad Hours Before Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Is Repealed

Over the last few days Madonna has drawn some attention on YouTube for being caught on tape at a press conference saying that she absolutely loathes hydrangeas, after being given a bouquet by a fan.  Fans, who were shocked and appalled that Madonna would so blatantly diss the fan that gave her the bouquet, as well as by the fact that anyone could hate hydrangeas so much, watched the video over 2.4 million times.


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Today a video that is both disgusting and awesome at the same time is going viral to promote Steven Soderbergh’s latest film—‘Contagion’.  The film, which stars Matt Damon, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet, is about a deadly disease so, of course, what better way to promote it than with…bacteria!


Read More: Bacteria Goes Viral In Revolting Yet Awesome Video Promo For The New Film ‘Contagion’

A video of two German kids—Michel and Sven—performing a magic trick that ends very, very badly went viral over the weekend, garnering over 2.2 million views and shocking and awing viewers everywhere.  In the video, Sven does the old tablecloth trick and it ends in Michel being crushed (possibly to death) by a huge bookshelf.  Those of you that were feeling guilty about chuckling when Michel got crushed, not to worry!  As you’ve most likely guessed, the video is a fake.


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Just over a week ago Doctor Emmett Brown drove the DeLorean up the YouTube charts in a new viral spot for Argentine appliance store Garbarino.  In the first clip, a flirty couple is interrupted by the arrival of the DeLorean.  The Doc gets out with a "Great Scott!" thrilled to be in 2011 Argentina.  In the second clip, which has been going viral over the last few days, we find out why he’s so thrilled—because he gets to stock up on products from Garbarino, of course!


Read More: Doc Brown Comes Back To The Future For A Second Argentine Viral Video Spot

Last month a video of actor Ryan Gosling breaking up a street fight went viral on YouTube, with the original clip garnering nearly 1 million views and getting more exposure on news sources like TMZ, MTV and beyond.  This week, Ryan Gosling spoke out about the video, telling MTV that he is embarrassed about the video and about the entire situation.


Read More: Actor Ryan Gosling Embarrassed About Street Fight Viral Video

In the last two days a video called ‘McFly’s Closet’ has amassed over 1.1 million views.  The video features shelves and shelves of 2011 Nike MAG shoes, which are designed to look just like Marty McFly’s awesome shoes from Back To The Future II.  The shoes are limited edition—there are only 1500 pairs being auctioned off on eBay—and all net proceeds are going directly to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.


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Over 35 million people have watched the Nyan Cat video since it appeared on YouTube in April of this year and most of these viewers have stared blankly wondering, "WTF? Who is this even for?"  Well folks, the verdict is in!  A new video that hit YouTube this week of a kitten watching Nyan Cat illustrates exactly who the Nyan Cat video is for—Cats!


Read More: Viral Radar: Kitten Watches Nyan Cat…And Loves It!

What is your favorite viral advertisement of all time?  Is it the Volkswagen mini-Darth Vader spot?  How about the Old Spice response campaign?  Or maybe it’s Doritos’ Crash The Super Bowl campaign?  If these are among your favorites, you’re not alone.  These are three of the top 10 most viral video ads of all time, as recently reported by Ad Age.  Read on to learn more, and check out the full list.


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Brace yourself because you are about to see one of the coolest things ever.  Meet LG’s scanner mouse—the world’s first mouse that doubles as a scanner.  Using "sophisticated computer vision algorithms", the mouse captures items as you scan them.  A video demo of the scanner mouse at CES 2011 was uploaded in January of this year, but it didn’t start taking off until this week.  This morning it is climbing the viral charts on YouTube.


Read More: Viral Radar: The World’s First Scanner Mouse

Here at Social Times we love flash mobs and we’re so excited to share the latest flash mob extravaganza with you—the Copenhagen Phil’s symphony flash mob at Copenhagen Central Station.  Members of the world-famous Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra gathered at the largest train station in Denmark to surprise travelers with a flash rendition of Ravel’s Bolero.


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Yesterday OK Go released their latest music video and it is a doozy!  It brings together two of the most viral groups on YouTube—OK Go and The Muppets—so it’s no surprise that the video has already amassed a whopping 400,000 views in a mere 24 hours.


Read More: Viral Radar: OK Go & The Muppets Take YouTube

What do Antoine Dodson, Double Rainbow guy, Leeroy Jenkins, Afro Ninja, Numa Numa, Freakout Kid, Tay Zonday, Boxxy, Ted Williams and Boom Goes The Dynamite guy have in common?  They all went viral on YouTube.  But that’s not all—they are also all actors slated to perform in the feature film, The Chronicles Of Rick Roll. Though the film was originally announced back in February, it is gaining traction on YouTube once again this week as the trailer was reuploaded and has garnered over 250,000 new [...]

Read More: Antoine Dodson, Double Rainbow Guy & Other Viral Sensations To Star In YouTube Meme Movie