97 Images The Web Shared In 2008

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  1. 97 Images The Web Shared In 2008 Presented by Adam Singer – TheFutureBuzz.com ( @AdamSinger )
  2. Viral videos are ubiquitous – they have spread into both mainstream pop culture and corporate America.
  3. Something not talked about as frequently are viral images.
    • Viral images predate viral videos,
    • and have been around since the AOL
    • and Prodigy days when there wasn’t
    • enough bandwidth available for the
    • everyday user to access video.
    • Images can be spread on the web through
    • several means, and they criss-cross back and
    • forth between:
    • Message-boards and forums
    • Blogs/Microblogs
    • Emails (inter-office, personal and mass emails to all your friends)
    • Social networks
    • Basic HTML Web sites
    • Company intranets
    • Anywhere, really
  4. Good editors know images tell the story and reinforce your messages stronger than words alone.
    • Viral images have held on tightly and are as
    • much a part of “Web 2.0” (sorry for the clichéd
    • term) as they were for Web 1.0. They are
    • popular amongst all web users for good
    • reasons. Strong images:
    • Prove a point quickly
    • Give people a story to spread
    • Can create deep emotional connections
    • Are easily consumable, perfect for a medium that moves fast
    • Are entertaining, hilarious or compelling
    • Are easy to share
  5. One could easily make the argument images are the most shared format of content on the web…
  6. Learn what type of images spread successfully by studying the content archetypes and emotional triggers of strong images.
  7. Let’s view some of the images the web shared like crazy in 2008. Captions added to provide context, where necessary. Collected from a combination of Digg, Reddit, Blogs, and StumbleUpon
  8. Bottled water truths revealed
  9. This guy should have heeded the warning sign
  10. Clichéd 80’s guy
  11. 8 bit street art
  12. Hydrogen bomb cloud
  13. Peyto Lake in Canada
  14. Perfect timing…
  15.  
  16. Irony
  17. Ultimate super-soaker collection
  18. Lightning at sunset
  19. Balloon tank
  20. Bill and Hillary Clinton in the 70’s
  21. Dare to break the rules…
  22. Another shot taken at the perfect moment
  23. Space station from above
  24. You’d think someone would fix this
  25. Nice try, Verizon
  26. CNN putting emphasis on the most important issue of the day
  27. When the one cup policy for your company picnic backfires
  28. Regular vs. hi-def
  29. How does this even happen!?
  30. The RIAA is about to stick the lawyers
  31. More irony
  32. Self-explanatory
  33. Making fun of those old motivational posters is a classic on the web
  34.  
  35. Really?
  36. Sad.
  37. Sara can’t make up her mind
  38. A popular image floating around message forums – the “failure” meme is a hit
  39. Another example of the failure meme
  40. Great advertising by FedEx
  41. George seems like a nice guy
  42. Grandma’s got some spunk
  43. Amazing shot of a guy petting a shark
  44. Search results for “Hell” on your iPhone
  45. Perfect timing…
  46.  
  47. A little excessive?
  48. The LOL cat phenomenon is all over the web
  49. Another of my favorite LOL cats
  50. Loyal to the end
  51. Imaginary numbers
  52. Linux vs. Windows
  53. Life will find a way
  54.  
  55.  
  56.  
  57. Difference between a stone and an iphone
  58. IQ’s across professions
  59. Making fun of pie charts is a classic
  60. Devolution of philosophy?
  61. The Rubik’s Cube, solved
  62. PC > Mac:
  63. From XKCD, a popular webcomic
  64. Unknown, but great
  65. From Gaping Void
  66. from PHDComics.com
  67. Physics isn’t that hard…
  68. You can’t blame the kid, too good a setup
  69. Creative ad for Career Junction:
  70. Exactly…
  71. I love this campaign
  72. LOLcats make it off the internet, and into the comics
  73. Just read
  74. Old ads are another classic viral image
  75. How is it even possible to make this mistake?
  76. Don’t mess with geeks
  77. Tandem cyclones
  78. Amazing walls of snow
  79. No escape…
  80. We need to talk…
  81. Clouds attacking the mountain
  82. School of rays
  83. When waves collide
  84. Nice timing
  85. Stunning tree, just beautiful
  86. What do you think – Photoshopped or not?
  87. Just an awesome photo
  88. Something isn’t right about this one…
  89. Self-fulfilling prophecy?
  90. You can do it little buddy
  91. Not sure what they thought would happen by doing this
  92. Great advertising by 3M – that is real money in there, they definitely believe in the product
  93. Why you can’t trust automated translators
  94. Just a normal work lunch Just a normal work lunch
  95. Chicago from above
  96. Tijuana meets San Diego
  97. Shuttle launch
  98. Beware of the sign
  99. That’s got to be the weirdest Ebay feedback I’ve ever seen
  100. Windows vista source code released
  101. Great analogy
  102. Clever clever…
  103. Wait, what? Clever clever…
  104. Amazing angle Clever clever…
  105. Images as blog posts with attribution, where possible: 50 Viral Images (and how they spread) 50 Viral Images Part Two Be sure to subscribe to The Future Buzz for more on media, marketing and PR.

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