So the charts is in two halves this week: the first half is dedicated to hilarious takes on you-know-what, and the second half is the Viral Video Chart you all know and tolerate.
1 Apple I-Pad
When the name of the Apple tablet was announced the jokes about the name sounding like a feminine hygiene product came thick and fast. "Heavy flow? There's an app for that!", was one of the better tweets. Have a look at the sketch that tweet was about. And yes, it is funny.
2 John introduces you to Apple's latest invention
Comedian Peter Serafinowicz performs his take on Apple designer Jonathan Ive.
3 Top 5 Secret Uses of the Apple iPAD!!
YouTube celebrity Philip De Franco knows how to do it. Skip through the boring news until he starts talking about the five secrets of the iPad – definitely not boring – at 1min30.
4 One More Thing ... [iPad Parody]
His pants might be as baggy as Steve Jobs's, and he might do the same gestures imitating the way Jobs acts in his famouse presentations, but you can't help but the thinking is still in beta testing.
5 Hitler responds to the iPad
Can anything happen these days without a Downfall video hitting the net within seconds? Was it ever funny? Ever?
Phew. And now, back to normal.
The prisoners of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center in the Phiippines got famous when 1,500 of them performed Thriller and it was watched 38m times on YouTube. Now they've done Nobody, by Wonder Girl, and another Jacko song, They Don't Care About Us.
1 Cebu Inmates Philippines dancing Nobody by Wonder Girls
The girls are sweet, but the video is old.
2 "Fear the Boom and Bust" a Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem
Never really understood the credit crunch, recession, or whatever we're in now? This fab video explains the economic way of thinking through the eyes of creative director John Papola and creative economist Russ Roberts. Very education 2010.
3 MINI DADDY (ADRIANSITO) EL NIÑO MAS BONITO
Another round in the epic of weird-looking web videos. Looks like this small mexican guy tries to keep up with lukeywes1234. He might not be that much of an original, but is certainly better at singing.
4 Walmart Clown Commercial
In this horryfiying commerical the clown creates a scene at a kids' birthday party. And what do we learn? Today, it is no problem for a brand to be in a context with - ouch! - bad emotions. It is more important for a brand to be passed on.
5 Aids graffiti
Watch a little sketched penis having severe problems finding company until a cute girl draws him a little hat. Yes, it is safe sex advertisement, and it is also a lovely short film.
Source: Unruly Media. Compiled from data gathered at 17:00 on 1 October 2009. The Viral Video Chart measures the viral dissemination of both brand-driven and user-uploaded videos across social media environments. Videos are ranked by the velocity of citations, based on a real-time analysis of over 50 million blogs and microblogging profiles. View and comment counts are cumulative and are aggregated across all known instances of the video. For more detailed metrics contact Unruly Media.
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