HyperX Cloud Stinger Headset Video Advert Is Blowing Up The Web

By Nathan Kirsch

The latest HyperX Cloud Stinger Gaming Headset video advert has been making its rounds since being released a couple days ago. It already has over 233,000 views (168k Facebook and 65k Youtube) and hundreds of comments. Some comments are blasting the video, but others are praising it as the best ad video of the year.

Positive Comments:

  • “even if it sucks balls ima buy it cuz of this ad!” – FearMeSuckers
  • “Legit best commercial” – Dukes3677
  • “The moment he gave harambe a fist bump is when I started to love this ad” – SUPER_JACK_551
  • “BEST COMMERCIAL AD EVER TIME TO BUY NEW HEADSETS” – Asim
  • “This made my night! Great job on this ad I actually watched it this time” – Tony Yang
  • “I’m a corsair guy through and through, but your ad team needs a raise. Fantastic ad.” – Issac Doud
  • “This ad team is on some next level. Up there with Arby’s.” – Cal Wykes

Negative Comments:

  • “I like your products but this was extremely unpleasant and cringey to watch” – CopyCat
  • “Wtf kind of commercial was that? this was so actually bad at trying to connect with your audience im not even going to share this to be ironic.” – John Wanitshka
  • “possibly the cringiest ad of 2016” – David Nick Thomas

What do you think?

HyperX is no stranger to trying to create over the top viral videos as this one from last year in Taiwan was interesting to say the least. It has yet to get 12,000 views in 1.5 years though, so the new video is by far the most watched headset video ever done by the Kingston HyperX marketing team. (Update 11/16/2016 @ 3pm CT: Kingston let us know that the peacock video below got 547,000 views on the Asian YouTube URL, so it really has over 550,000 views. It looks like Kingston marketing is taking it to the next level!)

Kingston is looking to sponsor influencers, so if you have a big YouTube subscriber base or Twitch channel you should check it out. Just 20,000 YouTube subscribers or 300 concurrent Twitch viewers will get you a free HyperX Cloud headset and if you have better than that they are offering a monthly stipend.