Gadgetory

you know for a TV advertiser it's considered a victory if you don't skip their commercial they positively wet themselves if you go out of your way to watch one I'm Bryan Cooley with the top five viral video ads video as you've gone out of your way to watch millions of times based on YouTube views and ranking by Business Insider get ready for the best time you'll waste all day number five the t-mobile dance spot about thirty four million views flash mobs are usually associated with some stupid pillow fight or something but this one is an evolving dance review on the main floor of the Liverpool train station it reveals itself and grows in waves until only about three people aren't in on it and they're pretty damn sure it's a cover for an al Qaeda attack but they're still having a good time and then it's over right on cue number four is stunt cyclist at Danny McCaskill's 2009 commercial for inspired bicycles about 40 million views filmed around embro Scotland it elevates the stuff you normally swear at teens for doing into two-wheeled ballet I mean I'm pretty good on a bike but there's no way I could ever try this stuff much to the relief of my urologist number three is the newest one on our list it's VW's the force commercial the one that ran in the last Superbowl and has run again some 42 million times on YouTube it's a great one because you don't really have any idea where it's going until it gets there and it's got that John Williams score that I don't even want to know how much VW paid to use number two is the perfect blend of three simple questions number one what's cute baby number two what's hip rapping and number three what makes anything funny get on rollerskates is your formula welcome to the screwiest way ever to sell fussy french water avions done some fifty four million streams of this okay our number one viral video ad should need no introduction hello it's hetero in its wording homoerotic and it's casting yep The Old Spice guy just the two main variants of this spot have added up to over fifty six million streams and Counting that's about the population of Italy the guy who is indeed on a horse is Isaiah Mustafa summers college and NFL ballplayer most assuredly is not your man ladies I love these spots he and Fabio do the mano a mano in El baño thing then I click out what's in your head back at me I have it it's an oyster with two tickets to that thing you love look again the tickets are now diamonds anything is possible when your man smells like old spice and not a lady I'm on a horse for more top fives like this go to top 5 dot cnet.com I'm Brian Cooley thanks for watching