Topic - Online Video & contest
Viral Video Round Up – Lessons From This Week’s Viral Successes
Welcome back to the third edition of this weekly series where we examine viral video successes (and sometimes failures). The goal is to reverse engineer the examples to help break apart and identify what factors helped the video go viral. Learning from those who succeeded before us is the surest way to find our own success.
Crash the Super Bowl with Vimeo and Win Millions
Vimeo and Doritos are teaming up again this year for the Crash the Super Bowl contest. This time the stakes are even higher with a cool $5 million on the line for the top three spots. Last year two brothers took home the $1 Million prize for the best ad based on Doritos. This year they’ve been hired on at Vimeo to help you win your piece of the prize money. With the top three spots on the ad meter making the cut for cash and prizes it’s bound to be the biggest of the Dorito Crash contests.
SMBs Fall in Love with Free, Custom Online Video
Great news for SMBs who are looking to increase their online presence with video. Turnhere just launched a promotional sweepstakes titled “Fall in Love with Video” to give away 100 free, custom-produced video profiles a week (that’s 400 total) for the month of September. In addition, they are awarding the top 4 grand prize winners a $1000 gift card.
Consumer Generated Video Ad Campaign Tips
It’s the dream of all marketers and website owners, get the consumers, users or your target audience to do your work for you. Have them create the content and spread the word. So what better way to do that than by asking them to create media for your ad campaigns…
Recent research states that more than 40% of marketers in the US plan on asking their consumers to create content for ad campaigns according to Forrester Research. The requests will come in the form of contests and allow the marketers to get direct feedback from their users bringing them closer to understanding what it is they would like to see from the company and brand.
SanDisk Wants You to Make Mobile Video
Proving that their storage cards can stand up to the pressure of performing when dealing with video, Sandisk has unveiled their “60-second Mobile Phone Video Summer Contest”.
Video Contests for Small Businesses: Intuit’s SMB Video Throwdown
Recently 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 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.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
TopCoder, 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.
