Viralness--it's all anyone wants to see in a company these days. Several education startups that are going viral share the secrets to their success.READ»
Another not-yet-published children's book has become a sensation by means of a free, viral PDF--this time, a book based off of David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Is consensual piracy the new way to launch a career in illustration?READ»
Many a brand, whether personal or business, would die a happy death to have a video go viral with more than 500,000 views in under two weeks. Fast Company talks with the comedian who created "Shakespeare in Celebrity Voices," a video that relaunched an entire career and revealed an important lesson about branding. READ»
What you may not realize about the founder of Buzzfeed, is that his viral media expertise is somewhat accidental. Before he co-founded Huffington Post, Jonah Peretti had an email dialog with Nike customer service about a customizable ...READ»
Captain Sully was the biggest badass of the skies--until Steven Slater joined him in the pantheon of airline gods. Sully brought down a jet. Slater, the JetBlue flight attendant who dramatically quit his job this week after being set ...READ»
Grey Group's Let the Music Live On campaign takes the original music piracy slogan--Home Taping is Killing Music--literally, by assassinating the artists.READ»
If you think that Doritos has gone down the same road that Cheetos did, with its supersized snack--the kind of thing you'd need to buy an extra seat for should you be popping one of these on a flight--you're wrong. They've just come ...READ»
Belgian beer brand Vedett has cleverly demonstrated how to interact
with its customers. It has asked drinkers to submit a photo of
themselves through their website, with a lucky 10,000 becoming “instantly famous” by appearing ...READ»
Flashback weaves together iconographic images sampled from films to create a kinetic video canvas
- visualizing the spectrum of human emotion and recall using the principles of cognitive psychology.READ»
This interview was conducted during research for my book, Viral Loop. You can read an excerpt here at Fast Company, or find out what your friends are really worth by installing the Viral Loop widget.
In 2002, Caterina Fake (her ...READ»
One day you'll tell your kids about the old days when you had to manually copy and paste Tweets to share them with your followers. What it means that Twitter is thrashing out the details on a formalized RT system.READ»
Earlier this year, prankster group Improv Everywhere staged
an event called "Frozen Grand Central," in which the participants
synchronized their watches, and at a prearranged moment they all froze in place
in the middle ...READ»
