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Video Contests for Small Businesses: Intuit’s SMB Video Throwdown

intuit small business video Video Contests for Small Businesses: Intuit’s SMB Video ThrowdownRecently an old friend of my from my college days contacted me about a video contest his son and daughter in-law were finalists in, and he asked me if I would vote for their videos on the site. Turns out the contest was hosted by intuit, the company well-known for their personal and small-business finance software products, which has built a growing presence with their web-based tools, services, and communities for small businesses.

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Youtube Contest & Suggestions for Making a “Good” Video

According to the reputable news organization, The Onion, Youtube has just released a new contest and is offering a $100,000 cash prize to the first user to upload a “good video” that has a “shred of originality or artistic merit,” and is “actually worth watching.”  

Tadcast Overview and the $5000 Online Video Placement Contest

tadcast Tadcast Overview and the $5000 Online Video Placement Contest Tadcast might be the ties that bind. Bind video creators to revenue streams that is. You see they believe that all videos should be able to have some sort of product placement and to that end they have challenged video creators to create videos with products in them. But more on that later. First let’s take a look at Tadcast itself.

OVGuide Launches 2nd Annual Online Video Viewer’s Choice Awards

ovguide logoOVGuide.com, the Internet’s most comprehensive guide to online video sites, including TV shows, movies, user-generated content, video games and music, today launched its second annual Viewers Choice Award contest to identify the top online video sites of 2008.

Video Search Apps Based on Truveo API

truveo Video Search Apps Based on Truveo APITopCoder, the leader in online programming competition, skills assessment and competitive software development, today announced the winners of the Truveo Developer Challenge. Competing for a prize pool of $100,000, developers were set loose to build custom applications that use Truveo’s open API, to build the next great video search application. Competitors leveraged Truveo, the world’s leading video search engine with a continuously-updated index of more than 200 million Web videos, to create 93 powerful new applications in just over two months of competition.

New – 2008 Calendar of Online Video Contests

It seems that each week, we hear about several online video contests that are announced. Video contests may be held for any number of reasons; to build brand awareness, to create viral video clips, or to leverage users for new entertainment concepts. Just last week, we told you about 2 major music artists who have launched online video promotions in conjunction with their new albums – Nine Inch Nails and RadioHead

Top Music Acts Turn to User Generated Online Video

So, today I saw 2 specific announcements to related to this. The first was an email that I received from Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and the second was an announcement today from Radiohead, who is sponsoring an online contest for fans to produce their next music video.

Pinnacle Video Contest Winners Announced

nav logo Pinnacle Video Contest Winners AnnouncedPinnacle has announced the winners of the “Ultimate Pinnacle Studio Experience” online video contest.

Characteristics of Video Sharing Sites & Monetization

TubeMogul released a nice summary of the online-video search and sharing sites that it supports and provided an excellent post with a summary of user feedback about each site and the monetization opportunities and status.

Types and Categories of Videos on YouTube

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