Soda - Keeping Curious

Far too busy to write anything more than a quick update to wish everyone a happy new year.

Here at the agency we’ve ushered in 2007 with a fair few project wins which we hope will set the year in motion and allow us to develop lasting relationships with new faces, and some old.

We realise that this blog has taken somewhat of a back step with regards to the frequency of updates, so to pass away the time until we update again I’ll offer you this belated Christmas gift. If you were on our contact list earlier last month the following probably isn’t new to you.

Answers may come as an excuse for a later update.

…with YouTube! I just can’t get enough of it. Even while I am working, I have it on in the background as a sort of jukebox. Recently a list was published by The Viral Video Chart listing the 10 most popular viral videos from 2006. The chart is as follows:

1. Kerry Belittles U.S. Troops
2. Free Hugs Campaign
3. White and Nerdy
4. Worst Burglar Ever
5. Evolution of Dance
6. Kiwi!
7. OK Go - Here It Goes Again
8. Colbert Roasts President Bush - 2006 White House Correspondents Dinner
9. A Message From Chad and Steve
10. Guiness World Record for most T-Shirts worn at one time

Interestingly, none of these videos are actually selling anything, apart from OK Go at number 7, which I suppose could be seen as “selling” the band’s single. Instead there seems to be a desire for the quirky and a strong interest in US politics, with two of the top 10 videos being on this subject.

To be honest, none of these videos really blew me away this year (apart from OK Go and Chad and Steve’s $1.85 billion excitement, which I admit I watched several times).

Off the top of my head, my two favourites are Panda Sneezing and the rather festive Jimmy Jangle, which, I warn you, is EXTREMELY rude! If you are not from the UK, you most likely won’t get it, do an image search on Jimmy Saville, note that he calls his mother “the Duchess”, throw in a little Gary Giltter and you might be half way there…

NB. This one is also making me want to punch my computer monitor with joy

I haven’t had much of a chance to write recently as this week I started in my new role as Account Executive here at Together. I have been moving to the downstairs office and have been busy clearing everything up and getting ready to take on all my new accounts. Hee!

However, I just wanted to share this viral game I came across. It is for dark chocolate M&M’s and involves trying to find 50 film names from the visual clues in a picture. I thought it was quite clever to tie the “dark” of the dark chocolate with a dark Bosch type picture. I have already forwarded it my old friends upstairs, just in case they are forgetting who I am.

I have only found 7 of the 50 films in the 5 minutes I have been doing it. Let me know if you fare any better…

EDIT: It has just occured to me that the films I found so far are all horror/dark films. Perhaps this will help me narrow things down a little…

EDIT 2: Umm…yes. It actually says that they are “dark movies” in the intro. That’ll teach me to start reading instructions!