Entries Tagged as 'Viral Marketing'

Sneak Preview of PEER 1 'Growing Pains' Episode 2

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   No Comments  |   


Here’s a sneak preview of PEER 1 Growing Pains, episode 2 – ‘A Walk in The Park’ of our humorous (now award-winning) short video series about web hosting. See Episode 1 here. Some time after being tossed out of the house, Todd and Janet try to mend fences over a nice walk in the park. [...]

BK Takes Whopper off the Menu, Customers Irate

Friday, March 14th, 2008  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   2 Comments  |   


Want to find out how passionate your customers are about your most popular product? Take it off the menu. Welcome to the Burger King ‘Whopper Freakout’. Thanks Lance for sharing this. Another brilliant example of a video gone viral.

PEER 1 ‘Growing Pains’ Viral Series In Production

Thursday, February 21st, 2008  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   2 Comments  |   


We have just completed filming episodes 2 and 3 of PEER 1’s “Growing Pains” series (episode 1 has reached 50,000+ page views on free video hosting site Viddler). Filming took place last week on location in New York City. We hope to have both episodes ready to go in the next month or so. To [...]

Bye, Bye YouTube… Your Time is Up

Friday, January 25th, 2008  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   2 Comments  |   


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Some of our staff members at ServerBeach got together to produce a hilarious farewell video to YouTube. YouTube started hosting their site at ServerBeach as a startup and continued on until their last server went offline here November 2007 and moved over to Google’s data centers as a result of being acquired. Check it out.

2007 Top Ten Posts at BIG Marketing

Monday, December 31st, 2007  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   5 Comments  |   


Another year coming to a close and everyone is putting out their top ten lists, so here are the top ten posts read here at BIG Marketing. A sincere thanks to all of you who have supported this blog in 2007. Interacting with you through this medium is such a joy for me. Cheers and [...]

Techcrunch Guest Writer gets Blasted for Shady Marketing Tactics

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   1 Comment  |   


An incredible post regarding how to make your videos get viral attention on sites like YouTube appears on Techcrunch. The guest writer, Dan Ackerman Greenberg, co-founder of viral video marketing company The Comotion Group, has taken quite a beating. Most of it is quite deserving as his original post seems to not only endorse, but [...]

Funny Video About Web Hosting

Friday, October 19th, 2007  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   13 Comments  |   


We’ve produced a PEER 1 short film/ad called “Growing Pains”. In this first episode called “Daddy’s Little Girl” the main character Todd bringing home a surprise to his girlfriend, Janet. “This is going to grow into something beautiful”, Todd exclaims. Watch below. If you like it, go ahead and share it, blog it, embed it. [...]

Plentyoffish.com Featured in New Online Video Series

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   19 Comments  |   


Some photos from our video shoot last Friday of Markus Frind, founder of the No.1 free online dating site Plentyoffish.com. Markus is being featured in a new series of PEER 1 customer stories we’re launching shortly. We’ve also brought in former MTV VJ, Brian Adler to host the short segments. Markus was recently featured in [...]

If it's a Viral Ad, You'll Watch it

Friday, August 3rd, 2007  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   1 Comment  |   


According to Church of the Customer Blog, 57 million Americans watch online videos daily. That’s not the interesting part. The fact that commercials was in the top five types of videos being watched by American adults is. 13% report they have downloaded or watched a video ad. I’m not American, but I’m a Canadian who [...]

The Future of YouTube? Ask a 17-Year Old

Thursday, July 12th, 2007  |  by Rajan Sodhi  |   1 Comment  |   


Want to know what the future of YouTube and Facebook is? Ask a 17-year old. Catherine Cook, the teen co-founder of growing site myYearbook.com shared her vision of media and social networking, and believes the future of Internet programming and new media will spawn from the existing infrastructure of YouTube and Facebook. Good content will [...]