Well today seems fitting to post this as I flew up to Joburg for meetings and busy in the airport waiting to fly back. Though I must say Kulula were pretty innovative with their safety message before the flight and throughout the flight tried to make jokes and just keep it light hearted. The attendant was very good, but these New Zealand girls are also pretty good and its just one safety video you might want to watch and the whole thing at that!

An amazing Nike advert with Lance Armstrong about why he’s back on his bike and racing the Tour de France 2009 – plus in the first stage yesterday it was a 15.5km time trial and he came 10th overall…. bloody good for a 37 year old who last raced and won the Tour in 2005! Lets hope he keeps on improving though his team mate Contador and Kloden are looking very good!

Absolutely brilliant! I wish we got proper premiers here just for this sort of stuff to happen, imagine Zuma was supposed to give a speech at a rally and the puppet version rocks up advertising Nandos!!?

Wonder if they would get sued!

Anyway, take a look at the video below – Nando’s in Australia organised a Bruno look a like to arrive in a limo 30min before the ‘real’ Bruno was supposed to get there. He jumps out with a bunch of models and starts shouting at the crowds while the hot girl models throw ‘peri-peri’ sauce all over themselves – raunchy indeed!

This was a bit of a slap in the face humour after last months incident when Bruno made a flying appearance at the MTN Movie Awards and landed on Eminem… apparently that was also rehearsed. Read here.

I love viral adverts that get sent around via email between friends and work colleagues and here is one that has come into my inbox a second time, the first time was last year or sometime ago but I still remember it. Take a look and see what you think?

Those Mastercard adverts in my eyes were one of the best viral campaigns and I bet that the marketing company didn’t even think that it would take off as well as it did virally.

Castle lager

Wow, Britain’s Got Talent seems to work well with You Tube followers and this week proved no exception. On Monday morning most of us would have never ever heard of her - a 47 year old from Scotland who has never been kissed but by Tuesday most of us who frequent the online world reguarly would have.

Simon and the other judges didn’t seem to give her much chance when she came on the stage and did a little jiggle of her hips, even the crowd were rolling their eyes but then she started to sing ‘I Dreamed a dream’ from the musical Les Miserables and wow she almost immediatly got a standing ovation. This was a voice you would hear at musicals not from some old lady… Even Simon had a big unbelieving grin on his face!

Since Monday the video has been viewed 47million times and is on its way to becoming the fastest virally spread video, see graph here:

You Tube seems to have disabled the ability to embed the video so click here to view it. Graph courtesy from Mashable.com

The last big act that spread virally was from Paul when he sung Nessun Dorma, click here.

Courtesy of ‘From The Couch‘ and their recent Hash One competition I won myself a nice little theme and all I had to do was write a little comment on their blog.

Now that is quite nice, think I’m going to use it for when I launch www.danbaileyuk.com

Thanks To Marc and David!

So, recently on a couple of websites there is a competition going around to see who can get the highest placed position in Google’s organic search results for the wording ‘The coolest guy on the internet’ – the guys at the MIH group started it with Justin Hartman writing the first blog. He posted a random video of this ‘cool guy’, here is my random video of my vote for the coolest guy – though with over 112million views I think he comes in pretty close to the top for the coolest guy on the internet!

For me this was also the first video I watched on YouTube… was definitely one of the first videos that I got sent which spread virally.

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Now I’ve known one or two brave Jack Russels with amazing personalities but as for as tricks go or bravery this video click is amazing, just take a look…

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In my perusing of the Internet I have come across a number of blogs been hijacked by a company trying to market itself. This hijacking is voluntary as the blogger normally has the following agenda:

And I can see why… What amazing footage, take a look.

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Brief run down these two chaps (John Rendall and Anthony Bourke) were shopping in Harolds where they found a lion cub for sale (1959). In those days you were somehow allowed to sell exotic animals like that. But the lion cub was enclosed in a tiny cage and they took pity on the animal and bought it.

They then started to raise the animal in their flat and take it to their local church to exercise in the grounds there, quite quickly they realised they wouldn’t be able to keep it too long in London (even pictures of them driving in a convertable with the lion in the back seat) and that they would need to take it back to Africa.

They did this and some years later went to visit Christian, the footage is of the reunion. So far the footage has received over 10million views, a must watch!