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Contest is the self-published first novel by Australian thriller writer Matthew Reilly. In 1996, after being rejected by several Australian publishing houses, Reilly personally paid for 1000 copies of the book to be published privately under the label of ‘Karanadon Entertainment’, and sold them himself.
Before publishing the novel in North America, Reilly rewrote most of the novel, placing the contest in the New York Library, rather than a fictitious library, and added descr...

CareerBuilder Jumps Into The Web Video Super Bowl Commercial Contest Game

At the risk of pigeonholing myself as "the guy who writes about online video Super Bowl contests," I'd like to take a moment and tell you about Career Builder's plans for this year's big game. Career Builder has a nice, solid history of success with ...

Doritos Narrows "Crash The Super Bowl" Video Contest Finalists To Six

We wrote about Dorito's upcoming Crash The Super Bowl contest for user-generated commercials back in October, letting you know about the competition and how you might be able to enter your own commercial creation for a chance to win.

You Could Be The Next Overnight Filmmaking Success

A couple of days ago we told you about Fede Alvarez, a filmmaker from Uruguay whose YouTube film's impressive direction and effects landed him a real life Hollywood development deal with Sam Raimi and Ghost Town Pictures. Well, now you have a chance to be ...

YouTube Taps Into The Crowd To Promote Hunger Awareness

I sure do love it when the world of online video collides with a good cause.  Luckily for me, that seems to be happening more and more lately.  In fact, it's downright encouraging to see so many charities and nonprofits embracing viral marketing and blogs ...

Viral Video Marketing Round Up – Lessons From This Week’s Viral Video Successes - 10/30/2009

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 ...

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 ...

SMBs Fall In Love With Free, Custom Online Video

The demand for SMB video is strong. In conjunction with the launch of the "Fall in Love with Video" sweepstakes, Turnhere is celebrating the achievement of a milestone, the production of their 20,000th for SMBs.

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 ...

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, ...

Youtube Contest and 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 ...

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. Nominations open today for individuals to enter ...

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 ...

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, ...