Agency.com — best known for their work on... well
not much really — recently had the opportunity to bid on the interactive account for
Subway Restaurants. Their idea was to create a pitch
video (embedded youtube) showing them brainstorming for ideas for the pitch video. They posted it online hoping to make it go viral, but the only viral thing about it really was that it used the word
viral in it as many times as possible and tried to show how
hip,
edgy and
cool they are.
Coudal Partners — best known for sponsoring matches of
Photoshop Tennis... although the archives of past matches are currently down...
they spawned legions of copycats, — decided to post their own
Unsolicited Response video (embedded quicktime) which in turn is much funnier than the original.
So what makes a lame attempt at
viral video actually
GO viral? With so much discussion on
advertising forums saying it isn't, all the attention it has been getting is ensuring that it is.
posted by skrike
on Aug 3, 2006 -
53 comments
Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project is an
incredible online resource for 19th century children's books. From the site: "The Rosetta Project's collections currently contain about 2,000 antique children's books which were published in the 19th and early 20th century. We shall be putting these combined collections on line as funding permits. Our current goal of putting 2,000 volumes on line will create an online library of aproximately 65,000 html pages. However, as we are still collecting books from around the world, we expect the Rosetta Project online library to eventually reach millions of html pages." (via
coudal.)
posted by Pinwheel
on Mar 31, 2003 -
7 comments
