Connected Ventures “Flagpole Sitta” viral clip on Vimeo
Bronwen mentioned this video on twitter maybe a month ago.
Lip Dub - Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger from amandalynferri on Vimeo
We did this video one night after work. We are a company called Connected Ventures, a group of friends who work for: Vimeo, CollegeHumor, Busted Tees, and Defunker.
This is posted on the Vimeo video sharing site, which I hadn’t heard of until - you guessed it - I was pointed to this cool and entertaining video.
What do I think of it?
- I feel much older, less creative and fatter.
- It perked me up.
- Millenial geeks are cute.
- If they can produce something like this with equipment I have lying around my house, how can movie makers and mainstream media hope to impress this generation?
- I hope that it is, as I suspect, just a viral video produced by Connected Ventures to promote Vimeo, or else that the kids were paid heavy bonuses for the traffic it brings to the site.
- I hope that they were also paid bonuses by Busted Tees, another company they work for and whose product many of them are wearing.
- Oohhh look…what does Defunker do…?
- Hmmmmm…. game set and match to clever marketers.
What if we hired some millennial geeks to weave through our library services, lips syncing and looking cute. Could we go viral?
Though I think...
Hey Kathryn,
Yeah it’s probably a marketing scheme, but its still pretty cool. Not really unlike any other music vid really with product placements etc. I’d heard of all those products before I blogged it, and read that they worked for them afterwards. Didn’t think it was necessary to edit my post tho. But it’s a good point you’ve brought up - any good lip syncer’s part of the Library2.0 Unconf who want to make a promo vid?
Cheers, Kate
True. Wish all ads were this cool. I think it’s probably half way between contrived and genuine..which sucks me in all the more. No lip syncers, but Con and I have put ourselves down for a round of Power Point Karaoke.