Viral videos are ubiquitous – they have spread into both mainstream pop culture and corporate America. Something not talked about as frequently are viral images. This presentation shares 97 images the web shared like crazy in 2008.

1. 97 Images The Web Shared In 2008 Presented by Adam Singer – TheFutureBuzz.com ( @AdamSinger )

2. Viral videos are ubiquitous – they have spread into both mainstream pop culture and corporate America.

3. Something not talked about as frequently are viral images.

6. Good editors know images tell the story and reinforce your messages stronger than words alone.

8. One could easily make the argument images are the most shared format of content on the web…

9. Learn what type of images spread successfully by studying the content archetypes and emotional triggers of strong images.

10. Let’s view some of the images the web shared like crazy in 2008. Captions added to provide context, where necessary. Collected from a combination of Digg, Reddit, Blogs, and StumbleUpon

11. Bottled water truths revealed

12. This guy should have heeded the warning sign

13. Clichéd 80’s guy

14. 8 bit street art

15. Hydrogen bomb cloud

16. Peyto Lake in Canada

17. Perfect timing…

19. Irony

20. Ultimate super-soaker collection

21. Lightning at sunset

22. Balloon tank

23. Bill and Hillary Clinton in the 70’s

24. Dare to break the rules…

25. Another shot taken at the perfect moment

26. Space station from above

27. You’d think someone would fix this

28. Nice try, Verizon

29. CNN putting emphasis on the most important issue of the day

30. When the one cup policy for your company picnic backfires

31. Regular vs. hi-def

32. How does this even happen!?

33. The RIAA is about to stick the lawyers

34. More irony

35. Self-explanatory

36. Making fun of those old motivational posters is a classic on the web

38. Really?

39. Sad.

40. Sara can’t make up her mind

41. A popular image floating around message forums – the “failure” meme is a hit

42. Another example of the failure meme

43. Great advertising by FedEx

44. George seems like a nice guy

45. Grandma’s got some spunk

46. Amazing shot of a guy petting a shark

47. Search results for “Hell” on your iPhone

48. Perfect timing…

50. A little excessive?

51. The LOL cat phenomenon is all over the web

52. Another of my favorite LOL cats

53. Loyal to the end

54. Imaginary numbers

55. Linux vs. Windows

56. Life will find a way

60. Difference between a stone and an iphone

61. IQ’s across professions

62. Making fun of pie charts is a classic

63. Devolution of philosophy?

64. The Rubik’s Cube, solved

65. PC > Mac:

66. From XKCD, a popular webcomic

67. Unknown, but great

68. From Gaping Void

69. from PHDComics.com

70. Physics isn’t that hard…

71. You can’t blame the kid, too good a setup

72. Creative ad for Career Junction:

73. Exactly…

74. I love this campaign

75. LOLcats make it off the internet, and into the comics

76. Just read

77. Old ads are another classic viral image

78. How is it even possible to make this mistake?

79. Don’t mess with geeks

80. Tandem cyclones

81. Amazing walls of snow

82. No escape…

83. We need to talk…

84. Clouds attacking the mountain

85. School of rays

86. When waves collide

87. Nice timing

88. Stunning tree, just beautiful

89. What do you think – Photoshopped or not?

90. Just an awesome photo

91. Something isn’t right about this one…

92. Self-fulfilling prophecy?

93. You can do it little buddy

94. Not sure what they thought would happen by doing this

95. Great advertising by 3M – that is real money in there, they definitely believe in the product

96. Why you can’t trust automated translators

97. Just a normal work lunch Just a normal work lunch

98. Chicago from above

99. Tijuana meets San Diego

100. Shuttle launch

101. Beware of the sign

102. That’s got to be the weirdest Ebay feedback I’ve ever seen

103. Windows vista source code released

104. Great analogy

105. Clever clever…

106. Wait, what? Clever clever…

107. Amazing angle Clever clever…

108. Images as blog posts with attribution, where possible: 50 Viral Images (and how they spread) 50 Viral Images Part Two Be sure to subscribe to The Future Buzz for more on media, marketing and PR.