Hello pigskin fans!
Not only is the Super Bowl going high tech with it’s very own social media command center (read all that that here). But can social media even predict the big winner? Those at MotiveQuest seem to think so! Check out their appearance on Fox News to hear them explain…
Social Media Can Predict Super Bowl Winner: MotiveQuest: MyFoxCHICAGO.com
Did you ever unearth something from your past so embarrassing yet so extremely cool that you felt the urge to share it with the world? Well, I did! Last week while cleaning my garage I came across a blast from the past, my middle school yearbook from Chaminade College Prep. I know most people would prefer to forget about those awkward “middle” years, but I got a kick out of revisiting them. How can I be so confident about my adolescence you ask? It’s easy because my yearbook is not just a typical 1980’s yearbook with puffy hair and men with bangs. My yearbook is a tribute to one of the great literary pieces of all time – the Lord of the Rings. It’s very clear that the D & D club was also a big part of the yearbook staff.
But don’t take my word for it, just have a look at my yearbook for yourself and see what you think!
Okay, so I’m not really an internet superstar, but I did recently make a video with friends that “went viral” (I guess I am kind of a big deal). It all started one night, sitting at home curled up with my cats, drinking wine and watching House Hunters on HGTV. I was chatting with one of my other single friends about the wildy popular “Shit Girls Say” video. My friend says, “We should make a ‘Shit Single Girls Say’ video” and we instantly start to rattle off all of the ridiculous/sad/pathetic things we’ve said to each other over the past two years. Then, a quick text to one of our funny male friends and it was set – we were making this happen!
We had a small “production meeting” soon after, picked out locations, wardrobe, and made shot lists. We planned to meet at 8am on a SATURDAY morning. A SATURDAY morning during CHRISTMAS BREAK. That’s how excited we were about making this video.
The whole video took about 4 hours to shoot, and about 8 hours to go through the footage, trim it down, and fine-tune it. We uploaded it on a Monday night, posted links on Facebook and Twitter, asked people to share, then we waited.
Thanks to friends sharing the link, we reached a couple hundred hits within an hour or so. I quickly developed the habit of checking the view count every few hours and immediately when I woke up in the morning. On the 2nd morning I sent an email to my video making partners titled “30100 – that’s not a zip code”. We had already received over 30,000 hits in less than 48 hours. I submitted the link to popular sites like BuzzFeed and StumbleUpon. Someone (a stranger) posted it on Reddit. It was linked to on the Huffington Post, reblogged a couple thousand of times on Tumblr, and showed up on countless other blogs. It made #3 on Adult Swim’s Internet Treasures the week it came out. Random people were making animated gifs. We kept hearing things from our friends like “one of my friends from New York just posted it on Facebook!” and “Wait, YOU did this?!” Yep, we did. The view count kept climbing. 9 days after we uploaded the video, the video hit a million views. At the time I am writing this, 21 days after uploading, we are at 3.5 million views.
I’m not dropping all of these facts to brag (I mean it is pretty awesome), but to point out how powerful social media is. We made a hilarious video but a lot of people make hilarious videos and not all of them get millions of hits. It thankfully caught on, and now I’m set for LIFE!
…Not really.
Hope you are enjoying the Holiday season! We at Tuesday are having so much fun that we decided to have a Secret Santa gift exchange. The rules were simple – pull a name out of the box and pick a thoughtful gift within our gift price range (and no gift cards).
Well, leave it to our creative masterminds to come up with some of the best Secret Santa gifts around! We really did get some fantastic gifts, and it was hard, but we managed to narrow it down to the top three in descending order.
Number 3
Electronics Gadgets for the Evil Genius
Number 2
Picture Frames with personalized messages from Ryan Gosling
And the Number 1 Secret Santa gift of 2011 is…
** drum-roll **
THE FOREVER LAZY!
Cheers to you, Steve! No one can rock a Forever Lazy like you can!
This clever ad campaign just emerged from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Designed by ad agency, Team Detroit, these ads are reminiscent of the D.A.R.E. anti-drug PSAs from the 90s. My favorite is “I found this in your room, we need to talk.” Which one is your favorite?
