As of 2013 it was the most shared ad of all-time. It was released on the Internet a few days prior to Super Bowl XLV in 2011, and quickly became popular.

Little Darth Vader – An advertisement by Volkswagen featuring young Max Page dressed in a Darth Vader costume running around his house trying to use ' the Force'.

The ads were successively parodied on sites such as YouTube and rapper Lil Jon even made fun of it. Apply directly to the forehead', stated three times in succession, accompanied by a video of a model using the product without ever directly stating the product's purpose.

HeadOn – A June 2006 advertisement for a homeopathic product claimed to relieve headaches.

– A series of TV commercials that were posted on the Internet many spoofs of the commercials were made and posted on YouTube.

It became a meme after YouTuber JonTron made a video reviewing the infomercial.

Flex Tape – An infomercial of the product Flex Tape.

While not selling any one specific product, the two were created to raise consumer awareness of the sponsoring firm.

According to ClickZ, visiting the Elf Yourself site 'has become an annual tradition that people look forward to'. Elf Yourself allows visitors to upload images of themselves or their friends, see them as dancing elves, and includes options to save or share the video.

Elf Yourself (2006) and Scrooge Yourself (2007) – Interactive websites created by Jason Zada and Evolution Bureau for OfficeMax's holiday season advertising campaign.

This backlash further increased due to Cooks Source's response which showed a misunderstanding of copyright and an increasing agitation to the original writer of the article.

Cooks Source infringement controversy – This publication drew backlash after it committed copyright infringement by using an online article without permission for commercial purposes.

Beanie Babies – Cited as being the world's first Internet sensation in 1995.

See also: List of viral music videos § Ads and campaigns

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