Nokia’s Magic Viral Video
Posted on Apr 29, 2009 by Steven Lin | Filed under: Viral Video Ads
As most of my colleagues and friends, I became a diehard fan of Taiwanese magician Liu Qian after watching his fantastic tricks on this year’s CCTV Festival Spring Gala. Though many of his magic tricks have been performed by many mainland Chinese magicians again and again, his magnetic personality still made the scenes unbelievably dramatic.
Recently, Nokia has released a series viral videos featuring Liu Qian’s performance with Nokia cellphones as the primary gimmick. The above video had received more than 285,000 video views and 650 comments in the first 24 hours, and got reposted on almost every Chinese SNS website.
It’s really good to see some international brands are diving deeper in the field of social media in China.


April 30th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
What the…. Are these special effects? Oh I can’t believe my eyes. Nokia did release some Bruce Lee videos with special effects, right? Unbelievable.
May 1st, 2009 at 9:33 am
Most of it looks like it could be done with gimmicks/ slight of hand. Floating phone just looks fake to me — not as in “he couldn’t do that”, just “it looks like it was pasted into the frame”.