Friday Chuckle: Top 5 Youtube Ad Parodies - VOTE PLEASE!
High Fidelity was a great movie. One of my top five things about that movie is that the main character Rob Fleming (played by John Cusack) always had a top five for important things in his life. Well, as a social media marketer, I pulled out my personal top five Youtube commercial spoofs that are used to promote blogs, podcasts or websites.
If your social media marketing team is sitting around the boardroom table (or leaning back in oversized inflatable plasitic armchairs, as the case may be) wondering “what kinda viral video should we do?” there’s nothing easier than creating a parody of a successful ad campaign or viral video. Half of your concept is already there - all you have to do is make fun of it. Plus, you’re likely to get found in Youtube through intelligent tagging your video with keywords related to the original ad or video. This can help you appear in related video suggestions whenever these popular videos are viewed.
So here’s my personal top five Youtube parodies that promote actual websites. But I’d like to hear from you which you think is the best of the five by voting in the comments. If you have your own favorite (so long as it’s clean — this is a family blog) please drop that in the comments as well and we’ll be happy to link back to your site. There are a lot of good user generated parodies out there, but we’re looking for examples that explicitly promote a blog, podcast or website outside of Youtube or MySpace (either with a URL on the video or in the video’s description on Youtube.
iPhone a Closer Look Parody
Mario in MySpace: Toad’s Social Not-working
Microsoft Surface Parody
Simpsons Star Wars Parody
Dove Evolution Transform to Kate Olsen
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Love the Microsoft Surface Parody. Hilarious!
@Wendy, they’ve got a funny Wii one too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iYBmAVuBns
Without a doubt, the most funny parody video - and the most popular Mitt Romney video - is “Way” by Bruce Reed over at Slate. Here’s the video:
http://www.jumpcut.com/view/?id=AE031584614311DC9B68000423CF3686
and here’s a writeup in Time:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/09/romney-campaign.html
@Scott,
Wow, that went right over my head (me Canadian). I’ll admit I don’t know who these people are or why it’s funny, but thanks for sharing the link. Social media is powerful way to make political statements as well as making fun of products and brands.
Well I’m just happy to be included in the list. It was fun getting this together and props to John Bell from http://www.thebatfry.com for the voice over and writing. He deserves credit. It’s been very good for my site having almost 30,000 or more views. Thanks for including me.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BqUPOvG5muY
watch this. i this tihs is the best parody/tribute i’ve ever seen!! way too cool.