Tagged: Viral & News
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Shocking harness race in Cork gets 87k views on YouTube (video) News
09.05.2012 A dangerous harness race in Cork that saw gardaí give chase as horses raced against ongoing traffic, and trend on YouTube with almost 87,000 views, has resulted in an arrest... -
Gone viral – LMFAO parody celebrates trekkies (video) News
10.05.2012 ‘Trekkies And We Know’ it is a new YouTube video that is both a parody of LMFAO’s ‘Sexy And I Know It’ and the going’s on at Stark Trek fan conventions that is showing signs of... -
If Carlsberg did flash mobs . . . (video) News
08.05.2012 The latest flash mob video to go viral on YouTube sees the Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra take to the city’s metro to surprise and delight weary commuters. -
Hot Problems - quite possibly THE worst song ever (video) News
18.04.2012 Perhaps the disclaimer beneath the YouTube video for the song Hot Problems should be a hint to the quality of the song and performances in the video: "Old Bailey Productions did... -
Forget flash mobs, is this the mother of all launch videos? (video) News
11.04.2012 It seems whenever a brand wants to launch something these days, it has to have a video about to go viral. But forget flash mobs with spontaneous singing and dancing, people want... -
Caine’s Arcade short film hits YouTube News
10.04.2012 The viral sensation that is Caine’s Arcade has finally hit YouTube. The short film directed by Nirvan Mullick and produced by Interconnected tells the story of nine-year-old... -
Story of blind dog who can now see latest viral hit (video) News
28.03.2012 This isn’t any old shaggy dog story – a short YouTube video of a stray dog that was 100pc blind and named Fiona by her rescuers who had her vision restored in one eye is the... -
Stop Kony YouTube video goes viral – the web’s hunt for justice (video) News
08.03.2012 A YouTube video highlighting a grisly catalogue of abduction, rape, torture and mutilation inflicted on young children in Uganda spearheaded by the forces of rebel leader Joseph...Categories: Social Media, Search Engines, Search, Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Internet, Digital Media -
‘Man who slipped on ice on the news’ goes viral …. again! News
23.12.2011 During a cold snap in early 2010 the entire nation of Ireland held its breath … and guffawed … at the image of one man skittering across the ice and landing painfully in Dublin.... -
Man proposes to girlfriend via internet memes News
22.12.2011 The old fashioned way is to get down on one knee, but the ever-increasing pervasiveness of the internet has meant internet memes are now being used by the romantically inclined. -
Viral campaign to highlight 2,500 job vacancies in Irish tech firms News
19.09.2011 Indigenous Irish tech firms are fighting as hard as multinationals, if not harder, to secure top talent to build their products and services. A new viral video campaign by... -
Legal dispute pulls Friday video off YouTube News
20.06.2011 The YouTube video that went viral of Rebecca Black's song Friday has been yanked off the video-sharing site due to a legal dispute. -
Rebecca Black nominated for music award News
07.04.2011 Rebecca Black, the 13-year-old aspiring singer who achieved internet fame with her video for Friday, has received a MTV O Music Awards nomination in the Favorite Animated GIF... -
Rebecca Black may sue Friday producers News
05.04.2011 Rebecca Black, the singer of viral hit Friday, may take legal action against the song’s producers at Ark Music Factory over claims they have infringed her copyright and... -
Rebecca Black's Friday most-disliked video on YouTube News
29.03.2011 Internet teen sensation Rebecca Black's song Friday has surpassed Justin Bieber's Baby to become the most-disliked video on YouTube. -
'Worst song ever', about Friday, goes viral News
18.03.2011 This time last week, while people were updating their weekend playlists, few would have strayed past The Cure for a Friday feel-good song. This week, however, seems set to be... -
Social media types tell Ireland naysayers to go ‘Shamrockurself’ News
16.03.2011 A group of social media enthusiasts have launched a social media campaign on Facebook aimed at restoring national pride and positivity by enabling users to add a shamrock stamp... -
Major ’11.6 hours’ Twitter scam has gone viral News
02.03.2011 Thousands of Twitter users have been caught off guard by a scam that dupes them into clicking on links to reveal how long they’ve spent on Twitter. It links to malware that... -
Advertising – from art to science? News
03.01.2011 Credited with coining the term viral marketing, former Harvard professor Jeffrey Rayport says the future of advertising will centre on the use of real-time analytics and... -
PwC to investigate ‘sexist email’ scandal News
11.11.2010 One of the largest accountancy firms in Ireland is to investigate how male workers were able to compile an email "top 10" of young female workers who had just joined the firm....