Last Friday night, uShip, the online transport marketplace based in Austin, held its annual holiday party for employees (+1). While they all expected to have fun at "Casino Night" (and did), what they didn't expect was to see the "premiere" of "The Shipping Network," a parody trailer of "The Social Network," the recent movie about Facebook.
uShip certainly isn't the first to spoof this trailer; however, we believe its the first to be made using the actual co-founders and executives of the spoofing company. And, AllFacebook.com, no ad agency was behind this (but get in touch with us, we'd love to tell you how we did it).
What was intended for employees has created some chatter outside the company. We think the technical term is "buzz." Here's the original along with the uShip spoof so you can compare. We've also included some images from behind-the-scenes during the making of the parody.
uShip certainly isn't the first to spoof this trailer; however, we believe its the first to be made using the actual co-founders and executives of the spoofing company. And, AllFacebook.com, no ad agency was behind this (but get in touch with us, we'd love to tell you how we did it).
What was intended for employees has created some chatter outside the company. We think the technical term is "buzz." Here's the original along with the uShip spoof so you can compare. We've also included some images from behind-the-scenes during the making of the parody.