I’m constantly impressed with the way that marketers and Google are creating advertising campaigns on Youtube. The example below is a marketing campaign for the upcoming summer blockbuster: Get Smart. Well, it’s not quite a block buster yet, but with marketing like this I have a feeling it will be.

Viral video marketing like this is very effective in generating brand loyalty. Over a million people have watched the Get Smart Youtube contest and thousands are uploading videos to participate. I doubt the numbers will be anything substantial, but it is certainly generating quite a bit of cognizant buzz about the movie. When the movie releases people that have seen the Youtube video will certainly recall the video they saw online and will probably opt to see Get Smart verses other movies.

This GetSmart viral video has the components of other successful online viral video marketing campaigns that Youtube has helped create: users participate in the conversation. When “users participate” by uploading videos of submitting any form of user generated content the marketing campaign is a success. Numbers, therefore, become the most important component of user generated marketing - you want as many people to participate as possible. So make it easy to participate! This Get Smart campaign is simple to be a part of; videos submitted are no more than 15 seconds.

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I think this funny YouTube Gif video is going to be the next social viral video of the year. Pretty damn funny. I never though of gif’s as modern art before, certainly not pop-culture.

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The producer of the above video discuss how to make your viral video go “viral” on youtube and other social media properties. This item was featured on Digg, then made it onto YouTube’s most daily watched, and thus it went “viral”.

Cities and corporations need to be vigilant in what their employees are saying - as there is a good chance that it can end up on Youtube, go viral, and decimate your reputation or brand. For example: AOL and canceling over the phone, Comcast sleeping episode, and now the Baltimore Police:

At the end of the video the pig (cop) even says, “Is that camera on? If I see this on youtu….” He immediately recognized the danger of what he just did - kudo’s to the kids for protecting themselves with the power of a camera, putting it on Youtube, then getting it Dug thousands of times.

Another great example of public servants getting ratted out through user generated videos: