A Look Back at the Best Social Media Memes for 2014. This is, quite possibly, the BEST of the best social media lists in 2014 by month. From Pharrell's hat to the ALS Challenge. Social media does not get better than this.
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The BEST of Social Media’s Best-of List in 2014
1. The BEST of Social Media’s Best-of List in 2014
blog.dlvrit.com/2014/12/best-social-media-memes-2014/
Debra Garber
DidIt posted a great list of Things that Blew Our Minds in 2014. I grabbed a few
“Best-Of’s” from the list and added highlights from the dlvr.it team to make up,
quite possibly, the BEST of the best social media lists in 2014 by month.
January: The hat with its own Twitter account
The Headline: Pharrell’s hat becomes Internet meme, gets a
Twitter account after producer sports hair-raising getup at the
Grammy Awards
Pharrell Williams’ hat took on a life of its own, and within hours of
the show, the hat had its own Twitter account, and the likes of
Arby’s and Quaker Oats were tweeting about it. Comparisons were
made to Smokey the Bear, the Arby’s logo, Canadian Mounties and
2. Curious George’s “The Man with the Yellow Hat”, to name a few.
The jokes and photoshop jobs inspired by this hat were, by far, the
best thing about this year’s Grammy Awards.
February: Flappy Bird
The Headline: Flappy Bird creator explains why he killed the
world’s most popular app
The creator of the recently departed mobile gaming hit Flappy Bird
3. has said that the application is now gone forever, maintaining that
the reason he yanked his $50,000-a-day success story is because
it was too addictive. “Flappy Bird was designed to play in a few
minutes when you are relaxed,” explained 29-year-old Vietnamese
creator Dong Nguyen in an interview with Forbes. “But it happened
to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To
solve that problem, it’s best to take down Flappy Bird. It’s gone
forever.”
March: Oscar Night Selfie
The Headline: DeGeneres Oscars Selfie Crashes Twitter with
Record Retweets
During the Oscar night broadcast, host DeGeneres gathered a
Hollywood A list – including Jennifer Lawrence, Angelina Jolie and
Bradley Cooper — to pose for a selfie, and demanded the audience
make it go viral. More than three million RTs later, it continues to do
4. so. And the real winner? DeGeneres’ photo-taking Samsung, which
was the whole promotional point. As Ellen DeGeneres put it, “We
made history.
April: The popularity of GoPro
The Headline: The 10 Best Brand Channels on YouTube GoPro #1.
Adweek.
5. In April 2014, GoPro was listed by Adweek as one of the
“Top 10 Best Brand Channels on YouTube” based on a
combination of views, shares, comments and overall
engagement.
GoPro has done several things exceptionally well
from an outreach standpoint, so much so that
“GoPro-ing” is nearly a verb now. They use action sports stars
like Shaun White and Kelly Slater to be ambassadors and socially
share content from their exploits that is specifically attributed to
GoPro. They’ve turned their customers into content generators.
Every day the company highlights a GoPro Video and Photo of the
Day, which is then promoted across all social channels. With 240
million YouTube channel views, five million Facebook fans and
650,000 Instagram followers, their content is resonating.
6. May: The Colbert Report
The Headline: Stephen Colbert Leaving Character Behind To Take
Over David Letterman’s Late-Night Spot
Colbert brings a serious social media following to late night, much
as Jimmy Fallon did when he took over The Tonight Show.
Letterman’s official show Twitter account has 286,000 followers.
Colbert’s Twitter account has 6.2 million followers.
7. June: Memes Jared Leto
The Headline: Embrace this meme: Jared Leto hugs everything!
It all started out innocently enough a week ago when nature-loving
actor Jared Leto shared a tree-hugging self-portrait on Instagram.
But, of course, nothing stays innocent for long on the Internet.
8. July: ALS Ice Bucket Challenge
The Headline: Think The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge Is Stupid?
You’re Wrong.
The real challenge with the “ALS Ice Bucket Challenge – trying to
escape it this summer. The philanthropic blockbuster, which has
been ubiquitous on Facebook and lured in hundreds of celebrities,
has sparked millions of donations to ALS research and raised
awareness of the disease.
9. August: Potato Salad Kickstarter Campaign
The Headline: Crowdfunding propels potato salad joke into a
charity concert bash
If you haven’t heard about this one, you’ve been living under a rock.
Zack Danger Brown earned himself lasting fame and $55,000
simply for making potato salad and offering backers the chance to
pledge to this Kickstarter campaign.
10. September: iPhone 6 Plus Extreme Bend Test
The Headline: After Apple Inc. dodged the iPhone 6 Plus
BendGate bullet, detractors wounded by ricochet
Apparently, destroying expensive phones on YouTube is now a
thing. A pattern is emerging where YouTube videos that try to attack
Apple’s latest iPhone really just direct more attention to it,
reminding people outside of the world of tech blogs that there’s a
new iPhone on sale.
11. October: Ello
The Headline: ‘Facebook Killer’ Ello Hatches Plan to Stay Ad-Free
Forever
Upstart social network Ello took the internet by storm this
past month, and a big part of its appeal lies with a promise
that, unlike Facebook, it will never sell ads to users.
“We’re really creating a way to enshrine Ello, legally,
as what we intend it to be,” says Paul Budnitz, Ello’s
CEO. “The bottom line is we’re not going to sell out
and no one can make us sell out.”
12. November: Alex from Target
The Headline: Fact or Fiction? The Alex from Target marketing
hoax was itself a marketing hoax, because everything on the
Internet is a lie
A cute teen boy amasses 60,000 Twitter favorites over one
weekend after his photo is uploaded. The following Tuesday a PR
firm called Breakr claims to have orchestrated the whole thing, but
Alex and his family claims to have never heard of them and no one
knows who’s telling the truth. This affair demonstrates the weird
murky funhouse nature of the Internet. WOW.
14. Markuss “Notch” Persson’s new Beverly Hills mansion, re-imagined in his game, Minecraft Photograph: Dan
Bovey
Minecraft
It’s possibly the most achingly zeitgeist story
of the year: a rich coder buys a huge
mansion in Beverly Hills and then his house
ends up being depicted in the block-building
mega game that he wrote. That’s celebrity,
real estate, successful geeks, video games
and an ironic meta-narrative in one shot.
Christmas has come early. In mid-December,
Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of the multimillion-selling
building sim Minecraft, bought his new pad for a reputed $70m.
Since its official launch in 2011, Minecraft has sold more than 50m copies on
consoles, PC and smartphones, a spectacular feat for a small independent project
built by a handful of coders in Sweden. Persson’s studio, Mojang, has since been
bought by Microsoft for $2.5bn, taking Minecraft with it, of course.
There you have it, the best of the best of the best in 2014. Hope you enjoyed the