Top 20 Most Shared Video Ads of 2013

It isn’t even Thanksgiving, and Unruly has already introduced the Top 20 most shared video adverts of 2013. Pity the poor entrepreneurs who have been ready till Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, or Cyber Monday to launch their social video advert marketing campaign.

A 3-minute video from Dove which goals to indicate girls they’re extra lovely than they suppose is probably the most shared advert of 2013. “Dove Beauty Sketches,” created by company Ogilvy Mather for the Unilever private care model, tops the 2013 Top 20 Global Social Video Ads Chart – an annual rating of the yr’s most socially-shared video adverts – which was launched right now by Unruly.

The advert, which was additionally distributed by Unruly, has attracted 4.24 million shares throughout Facebook, Twitter, and the blogosphere since its launch in April. “Dove Beauty Sketches” can be the most viewed online video ad of all time, as reported by the Unruly Viral Video Chart, which has been monitoring probably the most shared movies on the internet since 2006.

Other adverts to look within the prime 20 embody: GEICO’s “Hump Day” commercial (4.03 million) in second spot; Evian’s “Baby&Me,” the follow-up to its record-breaking 2009 hit “Roller Babies” ; Kmart’s “Ship My Pants” commercial; and a prank performed on espresso store drinkers to advertise the remake of ’70s horror traditional “(*20*)“. Here’s the complete record:

“Marketers are more and more difficult the worth of a view and as a substitute are beginning to give attention to creating content material and distribution methods which drive deeper ranges of engagement, equivalent to sharing, knowledge seize, model uplift or on-line purchases,” Unruly U.S. President Richard Kosinski mentioned in a press launch. “Shares are the foreign money of social success and for main model entrepreneurs discovering the way to create and distribute extremely shareable content material repeatedly and at scale is now on the prime of their want record. Dove succeeded on this by creating an advert that not solely elicits robust feelings from customers, but in addition gave its viewers a powerful cause to share it with their social networks.”

It’s additionally price taking one other have a look at the social video in second place. It’s a business by insurance coverage agency GEICO which celebrates the center of the working week – “Hump Day”.

“What makes this advert particular is when it attracts its shares,” mentioned Ian Forrester, Insight Director at Unruly. “Normally, an advert would generate round 1 / 4 of its whole shares inside the first three days of its launch. However, with GEICO’s ‘Hump Day’ advert, it has trended each Wednesday since its launch again in May. In truth, round 67 % of the 4.03 million shares it has attracted have occurred on a Wednesday. By associating itself with a day of the week, the advertiser has seen distinctive social video success.”

Back in July, Search Engine Watch took a primary have a look at how the GEICO Hump Day commercial dominates social video – not less than on Wednesdays.

“The prime 20 exhibits how manufacturers, large and small, native and world, could make a big effect utilizing social video throughout the Open Web,” Kosinski added. “With the proper content material and the proper distribution technique, advertisers have the flexibility to have interaction customers at velocity and scale. Over the final 12 months we now have seen extra manufacturers embrace the position of content material creator. However, in 2013, manufacturers didn’t have the massive tent pole occasions they’d in 2012, such because the Olympics, in order that they have created their very own dramas, experimenting with a variety of emotional triggers, together with hilarity, shock and worry demonstrated once more within the prime 20 itemizing.”

Methodology and Timing

Unruly’s rankings are primarily based on the quantity of shares throughout Twitter, Facebook, and the blogosphere versus the quantity of views. As such, it’s a measure of the advert’s virality, rating adverts by the amount of lively pass-on slightly than the passive metric of video consumption. The prime 20 doesn’t embody film or TV trailers.

Their knowledge was collected from January 1 to November 18. Data factors have been collected utilizing Unruly Analytics and the Unruly Viral Video Chart.

Why did Unruly make its announcement mid-way by means of the fourth quarter?

Well, Google is anticipated to announce its annual Year-End Zeitgeist in early December, and no marketer desires to seem like making a “me too” announcement after that point. And no marketer desires to be pressured into making an announcement through the shortened week of Thanksgiving.

This could also be one other instance of what Magnolia Ripkin of The Huffington Post has referred to as “Christmas Creep.” That’s her time period to explain the 12-week interval that begins in early October “when massive retailers begin the subterfuge of small sections of shimmery crap that harks of herald angels.”

On the opposite hand, the entrepreneurs at Unruly might have borrowed a behavior from the Red Auerbach, the legendary coach of the Boston Celtics. Auerbach gained 938 video games and 9 National Basketball Association (NBA) championships in 10 years, making him one of probably the most profitable coaches within the historical past of North American skilled sports activities. He was well-known for smoking a cigar when he thought a victory was assured, a behavior that grew to become, for a lot of, “the last word image of victory.”

So, if Unruly lights up its victory cigar mid-way by means of the fourth quarter, it might be one other signal of Christmas Creep. Or, who is aware of, it could possibly be the last word image of victory. Let us know what you suppose within the feedback part beneath.