10 Of The Best Sports Viral Videos Created By Brands
People around the world are obsessed with sports and big brands are tapping in to that craze by using some of the world’s biggest sports stars to create off beat videos that are shared around the world on Youtube and via social networks. It’s hard to tell how genuine all of the videos are with some of the skills being so outrageous that there is some online debate about their authenticity. What is sure is that there has been a movement to this sort of advertising for sports brands and the brands engaged in advertising alongside the world’s biggest sports. Don’t be fooled with these videos being cheap productions that are filmed on phones or small camcorders because the chances are there were months of planning and some decent production values involved in these…
Andy Murray (Head)
On of the world’s best known up and coming Tennis stars takes to the streets in this video with just his tennis racket and a tennis ball to get creative in an urban setting.
Roger Federer (Gilette)
The debate around this video and if it was real or not has been raging for some time with people split between the two camps. It did get over 7 million views but seems very professionally produced!
All Blacks (Sky New Zealand)
Some crazy rugby skills on show here and even thought the All Blacks are by far the best ruby team in the world you have to ask yourself are these skills really possible?
Ronaldinho (Nike)
I’ll save you all arguing over this slightly older video because having played football myself down the years I can tell you that what Ronaldinho tries here is simply simply impossible. Great video though.
Ronaldo races a Bugatti (Nike)
This was shot when Ronaldo was still in Manchester and although he is clearly one of the fastest football players on the planet you do have to wonder if he is actually faster than the fastest and most expensive car in the world!
Kobe jumps over a speeding car (Aston Martin)
Nobody knows if this was for real or not but you’d have to wonder if it was real how they would have got insurance for the shoot to justify the world’s best paid basketball player jumping over a car!
Tiger Woods Tricks (Nike)
I’ve actually seen interviews where Tiger has said that he did these tricks in one take and I tend to believe them as they are not crazy impossible. The question is with his career in tatters could he still do these tricks today?
Lewis Hamilton and the RC Office Grand Prix (Vodafone)
Again I am not sure if the people insuring these crazily expensive cars would allow Lewis Hamilton race one around the track using only a small phone. Good story behind this one though.
Music Shoe (Nike)
This is more like a television ad than anything but it is the 3rd Nike video on the list and shows how important this medium is for them. Who doesn’t want to make music with their shoes!
Steven Gerrard (Adidas)
Clay pigeon shooting and taking shots with a football, how got it not get loads of views on Youtube. Does take him a couple of goes to git the target but this one does look more real than any of the others on the list.
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