Wario Land: Shake It advertisement breaks Youtube

Wow. Whoever came up with this new ad for Wario Land: Shake it deserves a raise and a paid vacation to Cancun or something. They’ve taken a basic concept of the game and managed to make it into creative and effective marketing on a platform where even the most humdrum viral campaigns tend to flourish. Screenshots don’t really do it justice, so be sure to check it out yourself.

(For extra awesome, play the video again without refreshing the page to watch things continue to bust apart.)

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Eric (Who am I?)

that was pretty cool.

 
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Scary Flash Games (Who am I?)

very funny!!!

 
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andrewkfromaz (Who am I?)

Who knew web pages were so structurally unsound?

Now I’m going to be extra careful visiting Twitter. That whale might actually be held up by birdies…

 
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Aleksey Korzun (Who am I?)

Very creative, which is nice for a change.

 
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NOBS (Who am I?)

What the fuck was that… it sucked poor graphics… boring game play.. are you guys right in your mind… wtf is so special about that…
I think you guys just get paid to create buzzzz…. kind of sucks.. looks like its time to look elsewhere for tech news…

 
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Cheezespread (Who am I?)

Read the post and then reply !.

 
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wuttrain (Who am I?)

Pretty cool!!!

 
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Melle (Who am I?)

Reminds me of this site: http://producten.hema.nl/ (wait a few seconds after loading).

 
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Melle (Who am I?)

Is this comment-system broken, or am I just doing something wrong? (Never mind, don’t answer that…)

As I was saying, this reminds me of the Dutch store HEMA: http://producten.hema.nl/ (wait a few seconds after loading).

 

Caught it on Digg yesterday (what took you guys so long?). Props to the creators.

 

Caught it on Digg yesterday (what took you guys so long?). Props to the creators.

 

Wii power!!!

 
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dwqd (Who am I?)

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Chris (Who am I?)

reminds me of a “pseudo” computer virus i wrote back in high school dubbed cascade, where it dropped/trickled all the letters from the top of the word precessing (word perfect) screen down to the bottom. mostly harmless but totally freaked people out in the computer lab while they were working on their term papers…

nice implementation. we did something similar, although not as grand, back for a prototype for Nascar.com that shook the browser window when the page finished loading the flash applets…

 
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John Biggs (Who am I?)

wow. you wrote cascade. i remember that from my 286 days!

 
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Gabe (Who am I?)

Whoa, you wrote Cascade!?? I remember when I was in elementary school and our computer lab teacher was trying to explain the concept of a computer virus to us, and she described how they could make letters start falling off the top of the screen, obviously having had some experience with your little creation! i remember my eight-year-old self was quite impressed. ;)

 
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Jrad (Who am I?)

That is freakin amazing!

Jared
CEO at zumeo
http://www.zumeo.com

 
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Dann (Who am I?)

Yea it’s a nice idea but poorly excuted if you think about. You can’t even use the scroller or many other assets so you have to sit through it (or atleast if your not a interactive designer you’d think so). It’s a great idea for sure, but could of been a lot better. I sure hope this doesn’t win any awards…

 
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what U running? (Who am I?)

That is really clever

 
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kats (Who am I?)

THAT was awesome

 
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Jordans (Who am I?)

lol that was sooooooo badass

 
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sparta (Who am I?)

Take a look at this dutch warehouse’s online shop…
http://producten.hema.nl/

 
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Alek (Who am I?)

Thanks for spoiling it with the screenshot

 
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James Watson (Who am I?)

Great ad

but man… is this ad going to better than the Game???

It seems like it. The head ad maker and the head game maker need to change jobs.

 
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bhoga (Who am I?)

how did they do this ??
How was this achieved ?

 
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az1324 (Who am I?)

Maybe this will answer your question: http://i38.tinypic.com/2wqr31g.jpg

 
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bhoga (Who am I?)

yaah i know its full flash…….
but how does flash fill the whole page ??
U start by watching just a video…. and how does that expand automatically to fill the whole page ??

 
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Lance (Who am I?)
 
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Nick Stamoulis (Who am I?)

This is great… saw this a few days ago. Wonder what company will use YouTube next like this!

 
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SK (Who am I?)

In case you didn’t notice it after you watch the video for the first time you can actually grab and move around/scatter the various page elements..
Pretty cool!

 
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Zia Ahmad (Who am I?)

ohhhhhhh MAN!!.. that was a GREAT find!

that was pretty awsome!!!

im going to forward that to all my friends right now!!

 
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Paul Morrice (Who am I?)

That was well cool, very clever..!!

 
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edselmax (Who am I?)

awesome and very creative video. Funny for advertising product

 
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Andrew (Who am I?)

very good!

 
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Crystal (Who am I?)

Boy you sure can tell the difference in generations here by the reaction &/or criticism to this… don’t know if I felt so old or so disgusted by the youth of today until right now… Is it really that challenging for the younguns of today to be polite or courteous when they disagree?

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