Director Jason Zada’s Emmy Award winning interactive short horror film starring Bill Oberst Jr, Take This Lollipop, is still the world’s fastest-growing Facebook application, and is now officially the most popular in Facebook history. Since its debut on Oct 17, 2011 Take This Lollipop has generated 13 million “likes” and over 100 million unique hits. The [...]
Director Jason Zada’s interactive short horror film starring Bill Oberst Jr, Take This Lollipop, has been the subject of coverage from Forbes, CNN, Ad Week, Ad Age, Germany’s Spiegel TV, the U.K.’s Daily Mail, The New York Times and hundreds of blogs and sites from around the world. It is the world’s fastest-growing Facebook application, and the most popular in [...]
Million of fans worldwide have posted reactions to Bill Oberst Jr.’s work in director Jason Zada’s viral Facebook ap, Take This Lollipop. Some viewers know the “cyber-stalker” is actor Oberst, but many do not. The ambiguity was built in to the project and is a large part of the scary fun. Here’s a tiny sampling of Twitter, Tumblr [...]
Director Jason Zada’s Take This Lollipop is not only the most successful scary viral video in web history, it has prompted viewers to film their reactions as they “take the Lollipop.” As web guru Porter Gale wrote at AdAge.com, ”a viral video is, in essence, sparking viral videos.” Take This Lollipop’s millions upon millions of viewers [...]
Take This Lollipop interactive horror film (watch the trailer here) October 25, 2011 review at MoreHorror.com by Shannon Hilson Review: Take This Lollipop Starring Bill Oberst Jr. “We’ve all had it drummed into our heads since the time we were little kids that we shouldn’t take candy from strangers… but if you don’t give “Take This Lollipop” a try, [...]
Take This Lollipop trailer: Director Jason Zada’s interactive short horror film starring Bill Oberst Jr. is the world’s fastest-growing Facebook application and the most popular in Facebook history. Since it’s Halloween season 2011 debut Take This Lollipop has generated 11 million “likes” and over 50 million unique hits. YouTube is littered with reactions from Facebook users experiencing the ap [...]
From today’s Daily Mail in the U.K. The Lollipop has jumped the pond.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2054687/Spooky-interactive-video-mines-Facebook-risks-sharing-personal-details-online.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Take This Lollipop: a comprehensive look at how this monster was created and the man behind it, Jason Zada, just went up at AdAge.com. Author is social media guru Porter Gale, best known as Virgin America’s brilliant marketing VP; now reigning media maven at http://www.portergale.com. 7 million hits for Zada’s http://www.takethislollipop.com. And it’s not even [...]
“Oh my God it’s Daniel Craig!”…(well at least he didn’t say “a malnourished Daniel Craig…”) So much fun. Watching these does my heart good. Happy Halloween!