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31st Oct

Google Adds Video Search Ads

Google is borrowing from its most successful money-minting product, search ads, to goose revenue on its video-sharing site YouTube. The move comes just as YouTube’s search traffic has passed that of the No. 2 search engine behind Google, Yahoo.com.

Google Video search ads

The paid-search results appear on the right side of YouTube’s search-results pages under the heading “promoted videos.” The ads have a thumbnail image and a title and brief text, like AdWords, Google’s ad marketplace that also matches keyword-targeted ads against search queries. The ads link to an advertiser’s YouTube channel and, also like AdWords, are sold on a cost-per-click basis. The ads are not, however, bought through the AdWords system. (more…)

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31st Oct

Excedrin Express Gels – $15,000 – Over 18 y.o. – Under 3 minutes – Due: November 11th, 2008

Extra Strength Excedrin Express Gels for headache relief that starts in 15 minutes!  Speed is what this contest is all about.  Make a short video about an amazing feat of speed by you or someone you know. (more…)

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31st Oct

Houston Arts Alliance – Flip Video – Over 18 y.o. – 1 minute – Due: January 1st, 2009

The heART of Houston video contest will help increase awareness of the awesome artists we have in the Houston area and give Houston art lovers a chance to share their favorite artists and performers with the community. Submit a video about your favorite Houston-based artist and performer.  Cool people vote on their favorite videos.  You get a chance to be famous and win awesome prizes. (more…)

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30th Oct

Next in Video – Choose Your Own Adventure

The challenge: Expand the reach of what is normally a fairly niche sponsorship — a sailing competition — and link a car brand, Volvo, to a water-based sport.

The solution: a nine-month-long interactive, “choose your own adventure” video tied to the carmaker’s name sponsorship of the Volvo Ocean Race.  “Rush,” is an interactive rescue drama that takes a page from the Fox TV drama “24.” (more…)

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30th Oct

Carbon Cap Metaphor Video Competition – $10,000 – Over 13 y.o. – Under 30 seconds – Due: November 21st, 2008

Many scientists, economists, environmentalists and business leaders agree that a cap on carbon emissions is the best way to cure our addiction to oil.  But, quickly and vividly explaining how a cap will solve our energy problems is a challenge.  We need your help conveying this concept to the American people in a clear, brief, convincing and memorable way to stick in the public’s consciousness—like the well-known shot of an egg frying that depicted “your-brain-on-drugs.  We want a video or visual analogy smartly, vividly and clearly explaining how a carbon cap will break America’s addiction to oil. (more…)

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30th Oct

DTV Convert Now! – Panasonic 50-inch Plasma HDTV – Over 18 y.o. – Under 3 minutes – Due: November 23rd, 2008

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is pleased to announce the “Digital TV: Convert Now!” contest. To enter, post a video response to the Whiskey Falls call-out video that educates the public on how to prepare friends and family for the digital television (DTV) transition. (more…)

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29th Oct

Video Rising on Radio, Newspaper, and Magazine Websites

A full 65% of online media sites now use video, according to a new Web Influencers Internet Media Tour Survey conducted by D S Simon Productions. What’s more, 77% of online media sites project the use of video to increase over the next year.

“About 45% of TV stations use outside video for their Web sites, while two-thirds–67%–of radio stations, newspapers, magazines and bloggers use outside video on their Web sites.  Not surprisingly, TV stations were most likely to use video, at 79%. Web sites and bloggers were second at 70%. More than half of all newspapers and magazines are using video on their sites. (more…)

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29th Oct

Filmaka Pros & Con Game – $3000 – Over 18 y.o. – 1 to 3 minutes – Due : November 16th, 2008

This is where the competition to get funding for your feature begins. We provide a theme each month to inspire and focus each filmmaker’s work and to ensure a level playing field. Be sure to stick to the theme or you may be disqualified.  This month’s theme is…PROS AND CON GAMES  There’s a sucker born every minute.. and two to take ‘em! Filmaka is giving you three minutes to tell your story of con games, con artists, swindles, schemes, suckers and sharps. (more…)

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29th Oct

Australia Movie Contest – $1500+Trip to Australia – Over 18 y.o. – 30 seconds – Due: November 12th, 2008

Create a 30 second TV spot for the new epic film Australia, written and directed by Academy Award Nominated Bas Luhrmann (Moulin Rouge Romeo + Juliet & Strictly Ballroom), for a chance to win a trip to New York to meet Luhrmanna at a special event AND a trip to Australia courtesy of Qantas Airlines and Tourism Australia.  (more…)

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29th Oct

We Will Not Be Silenced – KODAK Zi6 Pocket Video Camera – Over 13 y.o. – No Duration Specified – Due: November 3rd, 2008

Submit a video of yourself as a SAGE member warning people about the IGP and the evil Mrs. Fox.  The program’s agents keep shutting down SAGE’s video accounts. Submit a video of yourself as a SAGE member warning people about the IGP and Mrs. Fox. (more…)

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