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Campaign Type

Viral Campaigns

Campaigns engineered to spread through social sharing

10 campaigns in this category

Red Bull

Red Bull Stratos

2012

A man jumped from the edge of space. They never mentioned the drink once.

StuntExperientialViral
94.2K views2010s
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Burger King

Burger King's Moldy Whopper

2020

They showed their flagship burger rotting over 34 days. On purpose. In a global campaign.

ShockViralGuerrilla
72.1K views2020s
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Dollar Shave Club

Dollar Shave Club: Our Blades Are F***ing Great

2012

A $4,500 launch video that beat Gillette's entire marketing budget in cultural impact.

ViralHumorContent
88.5K views2010s
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Blendtec

Blendtec: Will It Blend?

2006

A marketing director spent $50 blending marbles and turned an unknown brand into a YouTube legend.

ViralHumorContent
56.8K views2000s
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ALS Association

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

2014

Nobody planned this. $115M materialized from nowhere. ALS research changed.

CommunityViralSocial
64.3K views2010s
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Old Spice

Old Spice: The Man Your Man Could Smell Like

2010

A deodorant ad so good it turned around an entire brand in 72 hours.

ViralHumorSocial
82.7K views2010s
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Dove

Dove Real Beauty Sketches

2013

An FBI-trained forensic artist drew women he couldn't see. The gap broke the internet.

ViralContentExperiential
71.6K views2010s
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Volvo Trucks

Volvo Trucks: The Epic Split

2013

Jean-Claude Van Damme does the splits between two reversing trucks. At dawn. To Enya.

StuntViralContent
77.8K views2010s
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Popeyes

Popeyes vs. The Internet

2019

A single tweet — '... y'all good?' — sold out every Popeyes in America.

SocialHumorViral
73.9K views2010s
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Haxan Films

The Blair Witch Project: The First Viral Marketing Campaign

1999

They listed their actors as 'missing, presumed dead' on IMDb. $248M followed.

ViralContentGuerrilla
55.6K views1990s
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