Viral Ad Network

It’s the WORLD CUP – Hooray! But you’re stuck in the office and itching to see some football action. Spare a thought for DudeCorp:

COME ON ENGLAND!

http://dudecorp.com

At the Viral Ad Network we love a good read! Our book shelves are laden with the best writings from the worlds of development, advertising, design, business and more. Some people like to systematically read through a book, one at a time. I prefer to read a few on the go and dip in and out. Here are a couple of books I’m reading at the moment:

1. The Best Software Writing I by Joel Spolsky
2. The Smashing Book by Sven Lennartz and Vitaly Friedman
3. Designing The Moment – web interface design concepts in action by Robert Hoekman, Jr.
4. Ogilvy On Advertising by David Ogilvy
5. Attention And Interest Factors In Advertising by Harold J Rudolph
6. Hey Whipple, Squeeze This by Luke Sullivan

Let us know if you have any reading recommendations – leave a reply below, or send us a tweet.

You can find out more on interesting reading at the Rubber Republic Book Club or even sign up for the Rubber Library.

Today the Viral Ad Network salutes the humble Panda. Eating bamboo and providing virality in a sneeze!

“But where is this young panda cub now?” I hear you ask. Why, residing in our office driving Andy’s Lego trucks of course.

New Media Age is the UK’s leading weekly interactive media publication, so the perfect partner for the Viral Ad Network to power it’s viral brand and user generated content charts. Each week the chart is updated with the latest and most shared Brand and UGC videos in the UK.

This week’s charts have been dominated by the upcoming football world cup in South Africa and Britain’s Got Talent on ITV1. At the top of the brand chart is Nike’s World Cup 2010 campaign including a bearded Wayne Rooney! Also making the cut, but not the final Brazil 23 man squad, is Ronaldinho. Watch the ad below:

Sitting at the top of the UGC chart is a remix of Eastender Phil Mitchell’s infamous punch. The scene where Phil Mitchell punches Ben is beautifully crafted to the backdrop of Lethal Bizzle’s “Pow! (Forward)”. Watch the video below:

Check out the NMA Viral Brand Chart here

Check out the NMA Viral UGC Chart here

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Interesting use of YouTube – not the most elegant, but fun for a quick rendition of “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”

We’re very excited about the re-branding for the new Viral Ad Network site, and want to ensure all our users are enjoying the new features we’ve been adding. You may have noticed that we have recently launched a new centralised login system. You can now login from the re-branded Viral Ad Network site:

This will then take you through to the re-branded Viral Ad Network login page. Once logged in you can view your dashboard with awesome reporting!

We hope you like this new flavour!

As we fast approach christmas time with all it’s festivity and good will, spare a thought for all those hard working computers!

This video is a great example of fun, interactive and social design. Interesting experiment too!