Eepybird
viral video
EepyBird is an entertainment company best known for creating the viral video "The Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments" which won the first ever Webby Award for Viral Video in 2007 and was named "Online Game Changer of the Decade" in December 2009 by the readers of GoViral.com as "the most significant online marketing campaign of the decade."
EepyBird describes itself as a company that explores, "how everyday objects can do extraordinary things."
Their video experiments also include the viral hits "The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments II: The Domino Effect" and "The Extreme Sticky Note Experiments" Altogether, their videos have been viewed online over 60 million times and have won numerous awards, including two Webby Awards, two Webby "People's Voice" Awards, and two Emmy nominations.
EepyBird was prominently featured in the 2009 Grammy Award-winning Weezer music video "Pork and Beans".
Selected videography
First viral video: "The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments"
In November 2005, EepyBird created their first Coke & Mentos experiment as the finale to a sketch called "In The Kitchen With Fritz" at the Oddfellow Theater in Buckfield, Maine. That performance culminated in a ten-bottle Coke & Mentos fountain.
Spurred on by the response of the live crowd, they then spent the next five months working on new effects and preparing a 101-bottle experiment modeled on the Bellagio fountains on the Las Vegas Strip. They filmed their big experiment, "The Extreme Diet Coke and Mentos Experiments: Experiment #137" on April 29, 2006 in a field in Buckfield, Maine.
Launch and viral spread
On June 3, 2006, EepyBird posted its "Extreme Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments" video on EepyBird.com. The only person they told about the site was Voltz's brother David; nonetheless, within hours, EepyBird.com began getting thousands of visitors. By the end of the first day they had over 14,000 views.
On Monday morning, June 5, 2006, a producer from the "Late Show with David Letterman" called and invited Voltz and Grobe to perform their piece on the Letterman show.
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