Mystery Solved: “Arm-Swinging Man” vid a Sony Ericsson Viral
Posted on Jan 14, 2009 by Kaiser Kuo | Filed under: Viral Video Ads
So it turns out that the video we posted earlier wasn’t, as many of us suspected, just something a random subway rider happened to capture. Nor was the device the man was holding an iPhone: Rather, it was a Sony Ericsson F305c, as my colleague Steven “Flypig” Lin managed to figure out. (An anonymous individual pointed the way in a comment on Steven’s post on the Apple4.us blog here.)
Sony Ericsson’s got the video on this product page if you click on the link that says 精彩视频 in the lower-left. Definitely one of the more clever viral ads I’ve seen, though arguably it’s just a wee bit too subtle. One might actually wonder whether Sony Ericsson inadvertently did a bit of viral advertising for Apple in this case…
January 14th, 2009 at 11:38 am
Totally unsurprising. The video was funny, but looked rigged. Seriously, I grew up watching the Three Stooges in the USA. I know a pratfall when I see one. I did think it was an iPhone though. Oops.
January 14th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
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January 14th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
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January 14th, 2009 at 10:00 pm
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April 24th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
I can tell that this is not the first time you write about this topic. Why have you decided to write about it again?