Campaign Viral Chart: Coca-Cola Tunisia takes top spot

By Ben Hall, campaignlive.co.uk, Friday, 20 January 2012 08:55AM

A Tunisian short film for Coca-Cola is the most-shared ad across the social web this week, picking up more than 59,000 shares in the past seven days.

The ad, by FP7 McCann Tunisia, continues a strong global performance from the brand in the social space, with Coca Cola ads from Spain and the Philippines featuring in the previous four charts.

A follow-up to 2011's most shared ad from Volkswagen, featuring a mini-Darth Vader, takes second place this week with more than 52,000 shares.

The ad, a teaser for Volkswagen's upcoming Super Bowl ad, sees a group of dogs barking the tune of Darth Vader's imperial march.

Last week's most-shared ad, BHF's "hard and fast" starring Vinnie Jones, drops to ninth position this week, reaching just 18,386 shares across Facebook and the blogosphere – nearly 35,000 fewer than last week.

The chart, produced in conjunction with Unruly, ranks ads according to the number of times they have been shared on Facebook, Twitter and the blogosphere.

Ads launched more than 30-days ago are not included.

Due to technical issues with Twitter's API this week, shares from the social network have not been included in this week's count.

1. Coca Cola 'Si Lemhaf' by FP7 McCann, Tunisia 59,197 shares this week All time: 83,310 shares

2. Volkswagen 'the bark side' by Deutsch, LA 52,099 shares this week All time: 72,136 shares

3. GEICO 'Maxwell the pig returns' by The Martin Agency 27,563 shares this week All time: 79,793 shares

4. LG 'smart thief caught on cam' by Y&R, Amsterdam 24,155 shares this week All time: 62,708 shares

5. Coca Cola 'the secret to happiness' by McCann World Group 23,396 shares this week All time: 55,127 shares

6. Shamwow 'schticky' by Kaplan Thaler Group 22,711 shares this week All time: 37,330 shares

7. Nike 'welcome to the #kobesystem' by Metropolitan Republic, Johannesburg 19,740 shares this week All time: 27,231 shares

8. Old Spice 'blown mind' by Wieden & Kennedy Portland 18,783 shares this week All time: 23,515 shares

9. British Heart Foundation 'hard and fast' by Grey London 18,386 shares this week All time: 80,563 shares

10. Wheat Thins 'WHheat thins' by Being, New York 16,862 shares this week All time: 21,433 shares

This article was first published on campaignlive.co.uk