Viral Video Chart 3 April: Google's Pokemon Master prank takes top spot

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

April 3, 2014 | 1 min read

Google has taken the top spot in this week's Viral Video Chart chart with its April Fools' Day video which claimed it had a job opening for a 'Pokemon Master'.

In the video, shared more than 50,000 times, the company said that anyone who could catch all 150 of the Pokemon creatures on their phones using Google Maps would be eligible for the position.

Also getting in on the April Fools' Day act was Metro Trains, which released another hilarious special edition of its viral phenomenon Dumb Ways to Die.

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The charts are supplied by the Viral Ad Network and are based on the number of social media shares each video has received over the last seven days. The Viral Ad Network also writes The Viral Video Blog.

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